ESL students who write in English may present written material in a rhetorical and organizational mode that reflects the pattern which is valued in their native culture and rhetoric. Considering the violation of English code of writing in the writings of Iranian students, we will notice one common characteristic: They are reluctant (or ignorant of) to write a unified paragraph. Their writing co...

The present article investigates the stress pattern system of Central Sarawani Balochi (CSB), spoken in Sarawan located in Sistan and Baluchestan province of the Islamic Republic of Iran, based on metrical theory as developed in Hayes (1995). Correspondingly, the present research illustrates the position of primary and secondary stress in mono-morphemic words, verbal paradigms, compound words, ...

District 1 of Tehran had experienced many changes during past few decades and much of these changes, had included few tangible matters, and never considered public’s concept of urban system pattern. The present study, tried to explain pattern language system of district 1 of Tehran, based Christopher Alexander’s theory of pattern language and adapt this theory to public’s concepts. This purpose...

There are times in your life where you entertain a passion and you want to find other people who share the same passion, are troubled by the same concerns, active in the same domain. They will understand your passion and will be glad to get into profound discussions on the finer points and angles of your shared issue of interest. Among one’s direct circle of acquaintances one can find a few fri...

Previous work has established the value of goaloriented approaches to requirements engineering. Achieving clarity and agreement about stakeholders’ goals and assumptions is critical for building successful software systems and managing their subsequent evolution. In general, this decision-making process requires stakeholders to understand the implications of decisions outside the domains of the...

This paper describes the Common Pattern Specification Language (CPSL) that was developed during the TIPSTER program by a committee of researchers from the TIPSTER research sites. Many information extraction systems work by matching regular expressions over the lexical features of input symbols. CPSL was designed as a language for specifying such finite-state grammars for the purpose of specifyi...

Patterns and Pattern Languages are ways to capture experience and make it reusable for others, and describe best practices and good designs. Patterns are solutions to recurrent problems. This paper addresses the database integrity problems from a pattern perspective. Even if the number of vendors of database management systems is quite high, the number of available solutions to integrity proble...

Payloads is applicable to any instance where different entities communicate by exchanging messages. It facilitates decreased coupling between messages and the entities that operate with them. The Module data protocol offers several solutions for the inter-module message passing mechanism and could be employed by any modular application. Out-of-band and in-band partitions organizes an applicatio...

A k-bounded recognizable pattern language is the set of all k-bounded patterns that are obtained as behaviors of a pattern automaton. The emptiness and the equality problems for k-bounded behaviors of pattern automata are proved to be decidable. Moreover, we examine their relationship with context free pattern grammars, which are basically the hyperedge replacement grammars on planar directed a...