A large number of strategies, approaches, meta models, techniques and procedures have been suggested to support method engineering (ME). Most of these artifacts, here called the ME artifacts, have been constructed, in an inductive manner, synthesizing ME practice and existing ISD methods without any theory-driven conceptual foundation. Also those ME artifacts which have some conceptual groundwo...

Combining the principle of Differential Latent Semantic Index (DLSI) (Chen et al., 2001) and the Template Matching Technique (Tokuda and Chen, 2001), we propose a new user queries-based patent document retrieval system by NLP technology. The DLSI method first narrows down the search space of a sought-after patent document by content search and the template matching technique then pins down the ...

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One of the most difficult tasks in analyzing the results of the overall crystallization kinetics, controlled by the equation a 1⁄4 1 e Kt , is the determination of power n. Usually, this is done in double logarithmic coordinates, i.e. plotting ln[ In(1 a)] against ln t. Because of the property of the logarithmic function, ln0N, this method exaggerates the role of initial stages (a-0) as well as...

Article history: Received 20 January 2010 Available online 29 April 2010