Context-awareness is a common feature of contemporary knowledge management systems (KMS). The intended effect of context-awareness is to tailor appearance, functionality and behavior of KMS to the needs and individual preferences of knowledge workers and to contribute to flexibility in organizational KMS use by supporting the integration of knowledge use into work processes. The variability of ...

Unified Modeling Language UML became the main part of software development including web applications that use XML for exchanging structured data. That’s why there is a need for modeling XML elements with UML. Design Recovery or Reverse Engineering allows us to get conceptual schema which helps developers to understand systems and to ease its maintenance. A lot of XML Schema mapping methods foc...

This paper presents the key elements of an ontology that formalizes part of the knowledge about behavioural modeling and the associated verification and validation technologies. It summarizes the concepts existing in this area of interest and the relationships among them. We propose a classification of different modeling formalisms and a representation of possible verification and validation me...

The purpose of this paper is, on the one hand, to identify to define and classify customization requirements and, on the other hand, to evaluate how generic modeling and configuration assistance within the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) framework can fulfil the requirements. The aim is to provide commercial configurator knowledge base designers with constraint based generic modeling elem...

The SDI Supply Chain Builder Product Suite is a high-level simulation toolset that provides solutions to enterprise problems. The product suite contains four specific elements for enterprise modeling: SDI Supply Chain Builder for supply/distribution chains, SDI Plant Builder for multi-stage plants driven by schedules, Extend+Industry for high-speed, high-volume production line modeling, and the...

With the advancement of network technology and globalization of business, distributed software development has become in common. Along with this trend, distributed synchronous collaborative modeling supporting systems were proposed. This study points out two issues traditional systems have; they don’t relate conversations with model diagrams, and they can’t replay histories of modeling by assoc...

In Information Systems research conceptual modeling is an important field. Wand and Weber for example distinguish four elements: conceptual modeling grammars, conceptual modeling methods, conceptual modeling scripts, and conceptual modeling contexts [WaWe02]. With these elements they discuss the research opportunities to gain and evaluate results like artifacts. A common way to ensure a statist...

As aspect-oriented programming techniques move into mainstream use, it is likely that more software developers will be modeling systems with aspect-oriented features using the Unified Modeling Language. And with the Object Management Group considering revised standards for UML 2.0, it is an appropriate time to consider UML standards for aspect-oriented elements. This paper considers how aspect-...

Cet article porte sur le rapport entre l’écriture dystopique de Rachid Boudjedra et la théorie postcoloniale dans son roman L’Escargot entêté. Cette œuvre fait partie littérature algérienne se trouve, par conséquent, être l’emblème d’une esthétique hybride. L’hybridité dont use l’auteur, qui n’est autre qu’un concept utopique postcoloniale, finit briser texte, générant là une écriture dystopiqu...

Finite element (FEM) and boundary element (BEM) methods have been used for a long time for the numerical simulation of acoustic problems. The development presented in this paper deals with a general procedure for coupling acoustic finite elements with acoustic boundary elements in order to solve efficiently acoustic problems involving non homogeneous fluids. Emphasis is made on problems where f...