When a project fails to clarify important issues, to complete the analysis, or to make clear statements where the system is meant to be extensible and where it needs to be stable, architects tend to answer the indecisiveness in a technical way: general and complex solutions. This diagnosis pattern is about the balance between making decisions and introducing variability and configurability. It ...

Generality or refinement relations between different theories have important applications to generalization in inductive logic programming, refinement of ontologies, and coordination in multi-agent systems. We study generality relations in disjunctive default logic by comparing the amounts of information brought by default theories. Intuitively, a default theory is considered more general than ...

Most information retrieval systems, including Web search engines, use similarity ranking algorithms based on a vector space model to find relevant information in response to a user’s request. However, the retrieved information is frequently irrelevant, because most of the current information systems employ index terms or other techniques that are variants of term frequency. In this paper, we pr...

one of the important discussions in the science of principles of jurisprudence is generalization and restriction. implication of generality from proper nouns and sentences is through premises of wisdom. there are different viewpoints about generic nouns in terms of conventionality of their reference to generality or their being based . on premises of wisdom, like proper nouns and sentences. pre...