The problematic of automatically searching series of broad patterns in technical documents is studied. Such series can be assumed to ordered information useful for the understanding of documents. The proposed methodology is able to extract successive patterns of different natures without a priori information about the shape. To make this, we consider the spatial location of triplets of similar ...

Smart grid enhances optimization in generation, distribution and consumption of the electricity by integrating information and communication technologies into the grid. Today, utilities are moving towards smart grid applications, most common one being deployment of smart meters in advanced metering infrastructure, and the first technical challenge they face is the huge volume of data generated ...

Software requirement reuse strategies are necessary to capitalize and reuse knowledge in the requirements engineering phase. The PABRE framework is designed to support requirement reuse through the use of software requirement patterns. It consists of a meta-model that describes the main concepts around the notion of pattern; a method to conduct the elicitation and documentation processes; a cat...

With the large-scale production of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), a new entity, the PEV fleet aggregator manages charging and discharging processes of the vehicles. The main objective of an individual aggregator in interaction with electricity markets is maximizing its profit. In this paper, the performance of this aggregator in day-ahead and real-time electricity markets, considering (a) cu...

This paper proposes a pattern language for socio-technical system design to inform validation of system requirements. The development of this language takes inspiration from Alexander’s pattern language for building design in architecture. It identifies different types of patterns which fulfil different roles in the requirements engineering process. This pattern-based validation approach has be...

Previous work by Fulton et al. (2000) showed the development of a program for generating an “As Applied” map to assess uniform and variable-rate application of potash. The “As Applied” map was created using an “As Applied” file generated during field operation in conjunction with different application patterns determined by Fulton et al. (1999). While modifications are required to improve the p...

Technical debt is a financial metaphor describing the tradeoff between the short term benefits gained and long term consequences of design and implementation shortcuts taken over the evolution of a software product. These shortcuts typically manifest as design disharmonies such as code smells, anti-patterns, design pattern grime, modularity violations, or violations of good coding rules. Curren...

Inter-individual variability of conspecific plants is governed by differences in their genetically determined growth and development traits, environmental conditions, and adaptive responses under epigenetic control involving histone post-translational modifications. The apparent variability in histone modifications among plants might be increased by technical variation introduced in sample proc...