In the brief exchange above, Jane and Mike’s intentions were to vent; to commiserate with one another, sharing some fairly detailed information on the challenges they face; and to bond by using “insider” terms. Here is a glossary of the slang terms that they used: • the hole: used by surgeons to describe the appearance of the operative field in an obese patient undergoing abdominal surgery, whe...

This paper discusses some features provided by the SPADE environment to support the deenition, analysis and enactment of large and evolving software process models. In particular, we introduce the concept of activity, which allows the process designer to create and hierarchically aggregate fragments of process speciications. We then provide an execution model for activities and propose diierent...

This paper presents results of a consumer health vocabulary study of text appearing on Web-based bulletin boards. Consumers used obscenities and euphemisms to refer to certain body parts, functions, and behaviors. The female genitalia are the body region most often described with an obscenity (29% of all instances); male genitalia, in contrast, were rendered as obscene only 3% of the time. Cons...

Formal software speci cation has long been touted as a way to increase the quality and reliability of software; however, it remains an intricate, manually intensive activity. An alternative to using formal speci cations directly is to translate graphically-based, semiformal speci cations into formal speci cations. However, before this translation can take place, a formal de nition of basic obje...

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Language is a daily communication tool. The Banjar Hulu language used by the people of Pematang Karangan Hilir Village, in Tapin Regency. However, this not only community. When conversation considered confidential or limited to their group, they turn into “secret language,” formed adding certain suffixes form new words. purpose study was determine shape and process forming secret (classified as...