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Fifteen years after the object promising beginning, object oriented methods are not really used in the companies. Several reasons can be quoted, in particular the fact that components reuse during the analysis and design stages of application development remains difficult. The work undertaken around the Symphony method adresses this problem. Its aims are to give a user centric vision, to optimi...

This article describes a coordination mechanism through the environment and its implementation in the simulation of web building in a species of social spider. The work is grounded on societies of spiders which are an interesting model for the study of individual properties needed to make social life and cooperation to appear. In this article, we begin by motivating the work and making a state ...

This article presents an automatic method of indexing documents based on a semantic, linguistic and finally statistics approach. The semantic analysis is based on the annotation of the document to index by using the ontology of water domain’s. The linguistic process and statistics which succeed him are a sequential combination of the linguistic analysis of the document to be indexed by the extr...

n engl j med 358;24 www.nejm.org june 12, 2008 2649 negative predictive value.1 It should be noted that plasma levels of imatinib in patients given high doses of the drug exceed those of the no­effect level in the study of rat fertility. We also disagree with the specific reservations expressed by the correspondents. The time relationship was rea­ sonable, with oligomenorrhea occurring a few mo...

In recent years, there has been a phenomenal growth of the number of devices (e.g. smartphones, touchpads, laptops, sensors, etc.) and mobile applications. Community application fit this trend. The application provides multiple services in order to satisfy the needs of users who share common interests or practices. This application allows users to communicate, share information and access to vi...

This theoretical paper presents a state of the art on the use of spatial models dedicated to prospective studies. The first part summarizes the converging interests of foresight studies and geography. The second part gives helpful insights to answer the question of how choosing an appropriate model for exploring the future of territories/landscapes. The third part is dedicated to models validat...

Situational Methods Engineering aims to provide different approaches for constructing methods in function of projects on which they will be applied. One of the major issues in this area is to convince the professionals of the utility of such approaches. Indeed, companies are generally convinced that these approaches are too complex and too timeand resource-consuming. The method family concept h...

To find all documents matching a query, information retrieval systems use a formal or operational method in order to affirm if terms of each document match or not the terms of the user query. The majority of systems are based on the assumption that the terms extracted from the documents were perfectly recognized or identified, so matching is based on equality between document terms and query te...

Facebook, Gmail and Dropbox are only three examples of successful web applications. Each of them provides specific functionalities and application composition allows user to extend the range of functionalities they can benefit from. However, they rely on mediation code produced by expert developers. As a result, end users cannot freely compose web applications. They cannot precisely configure t...