Abstract. Many "semiring-like" structures are used in Soft Constraint Satisfaction Problems (SCSPs). We review a few properties of semirings that are useful for dealing w...
Retrenchment is presented in a simple relational framework as a more flexible development concept than refinement for capturing the early preformal stages of development, and brie...
Abstract. This paper presents a lattice-based visual metaphor for knowledge discovery in electronic mail. It allow a user to navigate email using a visual lattice metaphor rather t...
Abstract. This article discusses automatic identifications of functional structures of artifacts from given behavioral models of components and their connection information (called...
After more than a decade of research, visual languages have still not become everyday programming tools. On a short term, an integration of visual languages with well-established ...