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JELIA
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Decomposition of Distributed Nonmonotonic Multi-Context Systems
Multi-Context Systems (MCS) are formalisms that enable the interlinkage of single knowledge bases, called contexts, via bridge rules. Recently, the evaluation of heterogeneous, no...
Seif El-Din Bairakdar, Minh Dao-Tran, Thomas Eiter...
JUCS
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Selection among Renewable Energy Alternatives Using Fuzzy Axiomatic Design: The Case of Turkey
: Renewable energy is a source of energy derived from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, water, tides, hot dry rocks, magma, hot water springs, fire wood, animal manure, and...
Cengiz Kahraman, Selcuk Cebi, Ihsan Kaya
KBSE
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Reducing estimation uncertainty with continuous assessment: tracking the "cone of uncertainty"
Accurate software cost and schedule estimations are essential especially for large software projects. However, once the required efforts have been estimated, little is done to rec...
Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn, Chatchai Sinthop, Barry W...
MANSCI
2010
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Trading Higher Software Piracy for Higher Profits: The Case of Phantom Piracy
This paper analytically explores the effect of software bundling on software piracy. We focus on piracy at individual user level where several individuals illegitimately share a s...
Ram D. Gopal, Alok Gupta
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
The Tower of Babel did not fail
Fred Brooks’ retelling of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel offers many insights into what makes building software difficult. The difficulty, according to common interp...
Paul Adamczyk, Munawar Hafiz