The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy, cooperation, and goal-oriented behavior. Mainstream object-oriented modeling techniques do not account for these agentspecific aspects. Therefore, dedicated techniques for agent-oriented modeling are required which are based on the concepts and notations of object-oriented modeling and ex...

Cleft lip and palate (CLP), one of the most frequent congenital malformations, affects the alveolar bone in the great majority of the cases, and the reconstruction of this defect still represents a challenge in the rehabilitation of these patients. One of the current most promising strategy to achieve this goal is the use of bone marrow stem cells (BMSC); however, isolation of BMSC or iliac bon...

Eyelid anatomy, including thickness measurements, was examined in numerous age groups. The thickest part of the upper eyelid is just below the eyebrow (1.127±238 µm), and the thinnest near the ciliary margin (320±49 µm). The thickness of skin at 7 mm above the eyelashes was 860±305 µm. The results revealed no significant differences among the age groups. Fast fibers (87.8±3.7%) occupied a signi...

Professionele verpleegkundiges het ’n verpligting teenoor verpleegstudente om hulle die geleentheid vir betekenisvolle leerervarings te gee en om die talle oom blikke vir onderrig wat die inform ele leersituasie bied, ten voile te benut. Die klem val op die verduideliking van die fynhede van versorging en die noodsaaklikheid om van die gehalte en verskeidenheid persoonlike kontaktedie kritieke ...

Service-oriented architectures were introduced to create a technological basis for reacting to business requirements in a distributed application environment. Services encapsulate functionality to be reused in different processes and can be easily described in design models that should be the result of analyzing the business requirements described in conceptual models. However, this process is ...

Pipa is a behavioral interface specification language (BISL) tailored to AspectJ, an aspect-oriented programming language. Pipa is a simple and practical extension to the Java Modeling Language (JML), a BISL for Java. Pipa uses the same basic approach as JML to specify AspectJ classes and interfaces, and extends JML, with just a few new constructs, to specify AspectJ aspects. Pipa also supports...

In the information age, IT companies pay more and more attention to the quality of service. Social network service providers concentrates on saving the cost and developing products with better quality. The explosion of Web service has provided good opportunities for these companies, and also brought severe challenges to them. Therefore, the efficiency and the reusability would be the important ...

Due to the increased applications of agents, Agent-oriented software becomes large and complex. To support systematic developments of such a software, Agent-oriented software development methodology needs to be developed. This paper focuses on modeling phase of agent-oriented software development. For the Agent-oriented software modeling, Agent Elicitation method, Intra and Inter Agent modeling...