A large industrial process, software maintenance, has been modelled by using the process modelling language SOCCA. The paper reports about the experiences with this trial. In particulal; feasibility, expressiveness, quality, and the overall benejits of a formal SOCCA model are discussed and compared to the formerly existing informal process description. In order to illustrate the results, a wel...

One of the most critical problems in software maintenance and evolution is propagating changes. Although many approaches have been proposed, automated change propagation is still a significant technical challenge in software engineering. In this paper we present an agent-oriented change propagation framework based on fixing inconsistencies when primary changes are made to design models. A core ...

The fields of language production and verbal memory have relatively little contact. I argue that utterance planning for language production has substantial memory maintenance demands and that utterance planning provides the maintenance and ordering processes for short-term verbal memory tasks. There has already been some movement toward this view. I discuss benefits to pursuing these links more...

Regions of the left inferotemporal cortex are involved in visual word recognition and semantics. We utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging to localize an inferotemporal language area and to demonstrate that this area is involved in the active maintenance of visually presented words in working memory. Maintenance activity in this inferotemporal area showed an effect of memory load for wo...

The mathematical model for language competition developed by Abrams and Strogatz allows the evolution of the numbers of monolingual speakers of two competing languages to be estimated. In this paper, we extend the model to examine the role of bilingualism and social structure, neither of which are addressed in the previous model. We consider the impact of two strategies for language maintenance...

Developing multilingual dialogue systems brings up various challenges. Among them development of natural language understanding and generation components, with a focus on creating new language parts as rapidly as possible. Another challenge is to ensure compatibility between the different language specific components during maintenance and ongoing development of the system. We describe our expe...

This paper highlights the importance of software maintenance, specifically the UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams, created and changed, especially during the tasks of analysis and design of software. The main idea of this paper is to formalize the software maintenance phase in order to motivate the maintenance documentation of these diagrams taking into account a knowledge base which repr...