This study presents a method of acquiring product design knowledge. By analyzing the process and mathematics expression of product design, design attributes are taken as item sets and associated relationship among them are taken as analyzing target. Based on the expression and application for domain knowledge, design data are pretreated. Then the correlations knowledge among design attributes i...

Previous works in data integration can be classified according to the approach used to define objects at the mediation level. One of these approaches is called global-as-view (GAV) and requires that each object is expressed as a view (a mediation query) on the data sources. One important limit of this approach is the management of the evolutions in the system. Indeed, each time a change occurs ...

The present study is an attempt to apply the free association method to a group of psychoneurotic adults in order to determine the association tendencies characteristic of psychoneurotic individuals. More specifically, the problem is to determine the various features shown, relations between these features, the differentiation of the psychoneurotic association pattern from that of the juvenile,...

In this paper, we illustrate several key differences between our approach to interpreting accounts of research subjects and those of other qualitative researchers. In particular, we work with a theoretical premise of a defended, rather than unitary, rational subject. The methodological implications that we discuss here are two-fold: this subject can best be interpreted holistically; and central...

Let I = {i1, · · · , im} be a set of items. Let S be a stream of transactions in a sequential order, where each transaction is a subset of I. For an itemset X, which is a subset of I, a transaction T in S is said to contain the itemset X if X ⊆ T . The support of X is defined as the fraction of transactions in S that contain X. For a given support threshold s, X is frequent if the support of X ...