2. Principal goals of the project: Design and implement an ADL (architectural design language) for component-based software development. Starting from the DBSL (device bean specification language), this project will build a compiler accepting DBSL programs as input and generating XML-based architectural description as output. The XML file could be loaded into a component tool like Bean Builder ...

The ability to make informative comparisons is central to human cognition. Comparison involves aligning two representations and placing their elements into correspondence. Detecting correspondences is a necessary component of analogical inference, recognition, categorization, schema formation, and similarity judgment. Connectionist Analogy Builder (CAB) determines correspondences through a simp...