We describe a framework for the development of production rule programs on top of OWL ontologies, following a hybrid Object-Oriented (OO) approach. The hybrid nature is realized by separating ontologies and rules, interfacing an external DL reasoner and a production rule engine. The OO nature is realized by mapping OWL ontologies into the OO model, in such a way, so to preserve the extensional ...

Traditionally, undergraduate students are exposed to the concepts of Object-Oriented (OO) paradigm through OO programming (OOP) courses (e.g. Early Objects courses). These courses, however, have little, if any, emphasize on developing students’ analysis and design skills. In this position paper, we first argue for the need of exposing students to basic concepts of OO analysis and designs in ear...

OBJECTIVE To examine actual and perceived weight in national cohorts of Mexican-origin adult men in Mexico and the United States (US). MATERIALS AND METHODS We used the 2001-06 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the 2006 Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey. RESULTS The prevalence of overweight or obesity (OO) in Mexicans was 65% and in Mexican-Americans was 72%. O...

In this paper, we discuss the reusability and numerical efficiency of selected Object-Oriented numerical packages, serial and parallel, for developing high performance scientific computing applications. We selected packages that can be obtained freely on the internet and most of them are open source. Since the authors did not have extensive previous experience with all the packages, we believe ...

The mediator/wrapper approach is used to integrate data from different databases and other data sources by introducing a middleware virtual database that provides high level abstractions of the integrated data. A framework is presented for querying XML data through such an Object-Oriented (OO) mediator system using an OO query language. The mediator architecture provides the possibility to spec...

While database reverse engineering is getting mature, trying to recover the semantics of recent OO applications seems to trigger little interest. The reason is that the problem is underlooked because OO programs should be written in a clean and disciplined way, and based on state-of-the-art technologies which allow programmers to write auto-documented code. The paper is an attempt to explain wh...

This paper describes the initial efforts to explore the benefits of OO development by describing a framework for categorizing benefits based on phases of system development and by level of analysis. The level of analysis of OO benefits can be the enterprise level, the project level, and the individual developer level. The framework was tested by conducting structured interviews with information...

Context. Model-driven development approaches facilitate the production of Web applications. Among them, the Object-Oriented Hypermedia method (OO-H) has been successfully used for the development of industrial Web applications. Similarly to other development approaches, it is important also in this context to put measures in place to support project managers in resource allocation, cost and sch...

The most influential programming paradigm today is object oriented (OO) programming and it is widely used in education and industry. Recognizing the importance of equipping students with OO knowledge and skills, it is not surprising that most Computer Science degree programs offer OO-related courses. How do we assess whether the students have acquired the right objectoriented skills after they ...

The aim of this paper is to design an approach evaluate the expected efficiency and performance future airport infrastructure. First, sampling method select similar airports developed based on socioeconomic operational variables that are summarized in a proxy variable; second, ARIMA-GARCH-Bootstrap applied forecast selected outputs (PAX ATMS) whilst inputs (Cities, Gates, Runaways, Airport Size...