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The Case of China: General Framework and a Specific Situation
This section is dedicated to the situation of the information systems in China. After an overview on the progress in the development of computer-based retrieval systems over the past ten years and a descriptio...
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Determining the Needs
This section addresses the first phase of the development of the information systems for SMEs, namely, the analysis of the information needs and user cosiderations.
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A design and modeling environment to develop real-time, distributed software systems
This paper presents the general structure of a design and modeling environment for real-time, parallel/distributed software systems. It is provided for the designer to cope with different modeling and analysis...
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PRACTITIONER: Pragmatic Support for the Re-use of Concepts in Existing Software
Software re-use has become recognised as a vitally important method for reducing software costs and enhancing software quality. Practitioner has its own particular approach to software re-use: the re-use of co...
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An admission control algorithm for predictive real-time service (extended abstract)
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Preliminary measurement of the RMTP/RTIP
The Real-time Message Transport Protocol (RMTP) and the Real-Time Internetwork Protocol (RTIP) are the transport and network layer data delivery protocols in the Tenet Protocol Suite. We implemented the protoc...
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Robot Gras** by Integrating Multisensor Data with Fuzzy Logic
In this paper, a fuzzy control approach is presented to integrate multisensor data for performing gras** operations by a robot manipulator. Multiple sensors are employed not only to form environment models, ...
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A study of distributed transaction processing in an internetwork
The rapid growth of interconnected computer networks has generated a lot of interest in migrating the distributed systems to a wide area network (WAN) environment, such as the Internet. We have developed mecha...
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RED-VBR: A new approach to support delay-sensitive VBR video in packet-switched networks
Previous approaches to supporting video on packet-switched networks include deterministic service, statistical service, predicted service, and feedback-based schemes. These schemes represent different tradeoff...
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Semantical considerations for knowledge base updates
Recent research has shown that under some circumstances, the conventional minimal change methods were inappropriate for updating knowledge bases with disjunctive effects. In this paper we propose a new method ...
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Using case-based reasoning for exercise design in simulation-based training
In many simulation-based training systems, particularly in systems for training operational skills, one of the main issues is the creation of repeated and gradually more complicated training exercises/tasks fo...
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Learning English syllabification for words
This paper presents the LE-SR (Learning English Syllabification Rules learning system, which learns English syllabification rules using a symbolic pattern recognition approach. LE-SR was tested on NTC2, a 20,000 ...
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Speeding GA-based attribute selection for image interpretation
This paper addresses the problem of GA-based attribute selection. Previous work in this direction has mainly focused on problem representation so that a genetic algorithm could work on it searching for a satis...
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Constraints, causal rules and minimal change in model-based update
We consider knowledge base update while the domain constraints are explicitly taken into account. We argue that the traditional constraint form is problematic to capture the causality of the domain, and ignori...
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Associations and roles in object-oriented modeling
We present an extended ER model with entity, role, and association as the basic constructs for object-oriented modeling. The purpose of the constructs is to support object evolution and extension for long live...
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An ATM API for Java
This paper describes the advantages of the Java programming language and the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) transport capability, proposes some approaches to implementing ATM transport capability for Java, a...
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Genetic Algorithm for Materialized View Selection in Data Warehouse Environments
DataWarehouse applications use a large number of materialized views to assist a Data Warehouse to perform well. But how to select views to be materialized is challenging. Several heuristic algorithms have been...
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Neural Network Based Classifiers for a Vast Amount of Data
When using neural networks to train a large number of data for classification, there generally exists a learning complexity problem. In this paper, a new geometrical interpretation of McCulloch-Pitts (M–P) neu...
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A Secure Communication Scheme for Multiagent Systems
In this paper we present a secure communication scheme for multiagent systems. First, we briefly introduce an architecture for multiagent systems, and discuss security problems with such systems. We then prese...
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Secure Agent-Mediated Auctionlike Negotiation Protocol for Internet Retail Commerce
With the proliferation of retail commerce on the Internet, mobile agents play more and more important roles in automating information brokering and negoiation for online shop**. However, due to the limited c...