Taxonomy is becoming indispensable to a growing number of applications in software engineering such as software repository mining and defect prediction. However, the existing related taxonomies are always manually constructed. The sizes of these taxonomies are small and their depths are limited. In order to show the full potential of taxonomies in software engineering applications, in this pape...

In the past few years network security threats have increased significantly. Methods for attacks have not only grown in diversity but also became more sophisticated. The increased need for security mechanisms and countermeasures requires a comprehensive understanding of those attacks and their characteristics. To organize the knowledge of attacks a large variety of classifications were proposed...

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A reoccurring problem with software security is that programmers are encouraged to reason about correctness either at code-level or at the design level, while attacks often tend to take places on intermediary layers of abstraction. It may happen that the code itself may seem correct and secure as long as its functionality has been demonstrated for example, by showing that some invariant has bee...

The task of translating data from one schema into another is usually performed with the help of information stating how the elements between two schemas correspond. Translation mechanisms can use this information in order to identify how instances of a source schema must be translated. We claim that a uniform matching approach, where instances of a source classes are always translated into the ...

one of the modern paradigms to develop an application is object oriented analysis and design. in this paradigm, there are several objects and each object plays some specific roles in applications. in an application, we must distinguish between procedural semantics and declarative semantics for their implementation in a specific programming language. for the procedural semantics, we can write a ...

the main concern of this study was communication strategies (css) which are used to compensate for communication breakdown. the goals of this study were to examine whether proficiency level of iranian students had any relationship with their choice of css. this research was descriptive in nature. the participants were 15 pre-intermediate and 14 intermediate efl learners between 16 to 21years ol...

This paper deals with taxonomy alignment. It presents structural techniques of an alignment method suitable with a dissymmetry in the structure of the mapped taxonomies. The aim is to allow a uniform access to documents belonging to a same application domain, assuming retrieval of documents is supported by taxonomies.

This commentary stresses the importance of Atran’s work for the development of a new cognitive anthropology, but questions both his particular use of Dawkins’s “meme” model and the general usefulness of the meme model for understanding folk-taxonomies as cultural phenom-