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Modelling and Reasoning with Vague Concepts

Springer, 2006

Vagueness is central to the flexibility and robustness of natural language descriptions. Vague concepts are robust to the imprecision of our perceptions, while still allowing us to convey useful, and sometimes vital, information. The study of vagueness in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is therefore motivated by the desire to incorporate this...

A Computational Model of Natural Language Communication: Interpretation, Inference, and Production in Database Semantics

Springer, 2006

Everyday life would be easier if we could simply talk with machines instead of having to program them. Before such talking robots can be built, however, there must be a theory of how communicating with natural language works. This requires not only a grammatical analysis of the language signs, but also a model of the cognitive agent, with...

Foundations of Dependable Computing: Paradigms for Dependable Applications

Springer, 1994

Foundations of Dependable Computing: Paradigms for Dependable Applications, presents a variety of specific approaches to achieving dependability at the application level. Driven by the higher level fault models of Models and Frameworks for Dependable Systems, and built on the lower level abstractions implemented in a third companion book...

Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

A very ambitious undertaking, masterfully described. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first published version of the detailed models implied by the Zachman Framework. David Hay builds the models one step at a time, describing in each increment why the new entities were added, and how they related to the rest of the model. At least as...

Foundations of Dependable Computing: Models and Frameworks for Dependable Systems

Springer, 1994

Foundations of Dependable Computing: Models and Frameworks for Dependable Systems presents two comprehensive frameworks for reasoning about system dependability, thereby establishing a context for understanding the roles played by specific approaches presented in this book's two companion volumes. It then explores the range of models and...

UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (2nd Edition)

Addison Wesley, 1999

Now widely adopted as the de facto industry standard and sanctioned by the
Object Management Group, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a notation
all software developers need to know and understand. However, the UML is a big
language, and not all of it is equally important. The award-winning first edition of
UML Distilled...

Data Access Patterns: Database Interactions in Object-Oriented Applications

Addison Wesley, 2003

Efficient, high-quality data access code is crucial to the performance and usability of virtually any enterprise application-and there's no better way to improve an existing system than to optimize its data access code. Regardless of database engine, platform, language, or application, developers repeatedly encounter the same...

Foundations of Dependable Computing: System Implementation

Springer, 1994

Foundations of Dependable Computing: System Implementation, explores the system infrastructure needed to support the various paradigms of Paradigms for Dependable Applications. Approaches to implementing support mechanisms and to incorporating additional appropriate levels of fault detection and fault tolerance at the processor, network, and...

Stochastic Coalgebraic Logic (Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)

Springer, 2009

Coalgebraic logic is an important research topic in the areas of concurrency theory, semantics, transition systems and modal logics. It provides a general approach to modeling systems, allowing us to apply important results from coalgebras, universal algebra and category theory in novel ways. Stochastic systems provide important tools for...

GeoSpatial Semantics: 4th International Conference, GeoS 2011, Brest, France, May 12-13, 2011

Springer, 2011

The fourth edition of the International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2011) was held in Brest, France, during May 12–13, 2011.

Geospatial semantics (GEOS) is an emerging research area in the domain of geographic information science. It aims at exploring strategies, computational methods, and tools to support...

Modelling Distributed Systems (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)

Springer, 2007

A distributed system is driven by separate components that are executed in parallel, and protocols for such systems form a major aspect of system design in todays world of wireless and mobile networking. Process algebras are languages for the description of elementary parallel systems and are used to study the behavioural properties of distributed...

Information Brokering Across Heterogeneous Digital Data: A Metadata-based Approach

Springer, 2000

Information intermediation is the foundation stone of some of the most successful Internet companies, and is perhaps second only to the Internet Infrastructure companies. On the heels of information integration and interoperability, this book on information brokering discusses the next step in information interoperability and integration. The...

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