Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
Ontologies provide a means of modelling and representing a knowledge domain. Such representation, already used in purpose-built distributed information systems, can also be of gre...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
The management of product-related data in a uniform and consistent way is a big challenge for many manufacturing enterprises, especially the large ones like DaimlerChrysler. So-ca...
— We present a modular robot design inspired by the creation of complex structures and functions in biology via deformation. Our design is based on the Tensegrity model of cellul...
Chih-Han Yu, Kristina Haller, Donald E. Ingber, Ra...
Recently, a number of relational-based approaches for detecting the changes to XML data have been proposed to address the scalability problem of main memory-based approaches (e.g.,...