We present a set of problem frames specialized to the area of geographic applications. Problem frames describe the elements of common problems, and help a specifier understand and decompose a complex problem into simpler subproblems for which a solution is often known. We provide an overview of the main issues in geographic applications, and present twelve frames that address many of the proble...

The present article argues for what is essentially a return to the functionalist approach to investigation of memory. Two experiments demonstrate that the effects of level of processing depend on scaled meaningfulness of the material and study time. Data from those experiments along with data currently in the literature are then reanalyzed to examine the effect of repetitions. Of particular int...

This a preprint of the Materials accepted for publication in Automation and Remote Control, vol. 68, no. 9, 2007. c ©Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2007. Russian version published in Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, 2007, No. 9. You may find the most current version of this file together with a BibTEX entry at http://www.reiszig.de/gunther/. The definitive publication will be available at http://www.spr...

Affecting multiple parts in software systems, security requirements often tangle with functional requirements. In order to separate crosscutting concerns and increase modularity, we propose to represent security requirements as aspects that can be woven into functional requirements. Using problem frames to model the functional requirements, weaving is achieved by composing the modules represent...

Many real world problems deal with ordering of objects instead of classifying objects, although most of research in data analysis has been focused on the latter. One of the extensions of classical rough sets to take into account the ordering properties is dominance-based rough sets approach which is mainly based on substitution of the indiscernibility relation by a dominance relation. In this p...

Introduction The entropy functional, defined on a Markov diffusion process, plays an important roll in theory of information and statistical physics [1-3], informational macrodynamics and control systems [4]. However in the known references, we did not find the mathematical results related to the entropy functional’s connections with the Kolmogorov’s entropy, complexity, and the Lyapunov’s char...

In this paper, first we examine the usual treatment of temporal information and we recall the main features relative to the temporality analysis in texts. Then we deal with the formal representation of calendar expressions, and we provide a functional approach, based on a categorical representation of ordinals. Finally, an ongoing application providing a help for the reading of long biography i...