The upcoming technology support for semantic web promises fresh directions for Software Engineering community. Also semantic web has its roots in knowledge engineering that provoke software engineers to look for application of ontology applications throughout the Software Engineering lifecycle. The internal components of a semantic web are “light weight”, and may be of less quality standards th...

Component-based software development (CBSD) technology uses components as first-class objects and therefore requires a good understanding of the nature of components. Industrial approaches to CBSD based on interoperability standards (such as OMG CORBA) lack of component semantics in their descriptional models. In this paper we present an overview of the SYNTHESIS method emerging the CBSD approa...

Most large-scaled software systems are structured in distributed components to manage complexity and have to cope with concurrent executed threads. System decomposition and concurrent flow of execution are orthogonal. A sound semantic model that is powerful enough to handle distributed concurrent components but also realistic enough to provide a foundation for component technologies actually in...

Powerful, flexible and cost-effective analyses of maritime systems can be conducted in an appropriate way with distributed simulations. Co-simulation components require interoperability like specified by the IEC TC/65/290/DC to insure information exchange and synchronization. Therefore this paper describes a way to insure the interoperability of co-simulations of maritime systems. Userand techn...

This study examines four Japanese synonymous verbs that have the same equivalent in English, namely GIVE. These are ageru, kureru, kizou suru, and kifu suru. used a qualitative descriptive method. Example sentences for data were taken from Balance Corpus of Contemporary Written corpus data. The theories applied this argument structure theory Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory. Based on analys...

limitations of our cognitive system? Or are errors indispensable parts of every intelligent system? From the first perspective, all errors are at best unnecessary and at worst harmful. Consider an error commonly made by children. When asked to find the sum of 1/2 and 1/3. the answer is often 2/5. This is called the freshman error of adding numerators and adding denominators {Silver. 1986). But ...