In this paper, we propose and implement a system that automates the building of class diagram from free-text requirement documents. Our approach first applies natural language processing (NLP) techniques to understanding of the written requirements, and then uses domain knowledge represented by domain ontology to improve the performance of class identification. The basic notion of our approach ...

Despite many efforts, there are no computational models of consciousness that can be used to design conscious intelligent machines. This is mainly attributed to available definitions of consciousness being human centered, vague, and incomplete. Most researchers give up attempts of defining consciousness in physical terms, saying that consciousness is a metaphysical phenomenon. In this paper, we...

A distinction is drawn between non-conscious (unexperienced), conscious (experienced), and meta-conscious (re-represented) mental processes. There is evidence for two types of dissociations between consciousness and meta-consciousness, the latter being defined as the intermittent explicit re-representation of the contents of consciousness. Temporal dissociations occur when an individual, who pr...