When developping multi-agent systems (MAS) or models in the context of agent-based simulation (ABS), the tuning of the model constitutes a crucial step of the design process. Inde...
A reverse engineering process aims at reconstructing el abstractions from source code. This paper presents a novel reverse engineering methodology for recovering stakeholder goal ...
Yijun Yu, Yiqiao Wang, John Mylopoulos, Sotirios L...
We describe a system as a set of communicating concurrent programs. Quasi-static scheduling compiles the concurrent programs into a sequential one. It uses a Petri net as an inter...
Cong Liu, Alex Kondratyev, Yosinori Watanabe, Albe...
In this paper, we shall address the issue of semantic extraction of different regions of interest. The proposed approach is based on statistical methods and models inspired from l...
Similarity search is widely used in multimedia retrieval systems to find the most similar ones for a given object. Some similarity measures, however, are not metric, leading to e...