The purpose of INGENIAS is the definition of a methodology for the development of MAS, by integrating results from research in the area of agent technology with a well-established software development process, which in this case is the Rational Unified Process (RUP). This methodology is based on the definition of a set of meta-models that describe the elements that form a MAS from several viewp...

This paper presents the design and methodology used to create a heterogeneous database for knowledge movement extraction in Parkinson’s Disease. This database is being constructed as part of REMPARK project and is composed of movement measurements acquired from inertial sensors, standard medical scales as Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, and other information obtained from 90 Parkinson...

Based on virtual equivalent system concept and methodology, a unified analysis of the stability and convergence of switching multiple model adaptive control (MMAC) of linear time-invariant discrete plant is presented. The main results are expressed by three criteria. Two of them are applicable to switching MMAC systems with arbitrary control strategy, arbitrary parameter estimation algorithm an...

We propose a methodology using underspecified semantic interpretation to process comparative constructions in MEDLINE citations, concentrating on two structures that are prevalent in the research literature reporting on clinical trials for drug therapies. The method exploits an existing semantic processor, SemRep, which constructs predications based on the Unified Medical Language System. Resul...

Abstract Based on our studies done on two-dimensional autonomous systems, forced non-autonomous systems and time-delayed systems, we propose a unified methodology — that uses renormalization group theory — for finding out existence of periodic solutions in a plethora of nonlinear dynamical systems appearing across disciplines. The technique will be shown to have a non-trivial ability of classif...

The Virtual Reality (VR) technique based on computer graphics has been rapidly evolving over the years. VR has emerged to set a trend for developing applications and virtual environments. This paper introduces the trend and features through case studies about the game contents system for immersive interaction among these virtual reality techniques. The proposed methodology utilizes the Unified ...

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is widely used by Software Engineers as the basis of analysis and design in software development. While UML is very strong at specifying the structure and functionality of the application, it is seldom used to its potential to specify usability-related information. The Putting Usability First (P U F) methodology of Usability Engineering identifies and specifi...