A theoretical framework of domain knowledge is proposed, consisting of classes of generalized object collaboration models and generic tasks that describe patterns of human activity. The reusable library of generic models is applied to analysis and design for reuse of generalized componentbased frameworks by reusing the models as templates, with associated design knowledge in the form of attache...

The programme was launched on the basis of the European approach to ecological agriculture. Ecological agriculture mainly concentrates on biological processes, which in the field, however, did not permit to take socioeconomic, cultural and political aspects into consideration. The concept of the programme therefore gradually changed towards agroecology, which sees the agroecosystem as the resul...

WHILE THE EXPLOSION OF ONline information has introduced new opportunities for finding and using electronic data, it has also underscored the problem of isolating useful information and making sense of large, multidimensional information spaces. In response to this problem, we have developed an approach to building data tour guides, called FindMe systems. These programs know enough about an inf...

This is a DRAFT version of a paper that will be finalized and submitted for publication in January 2013

In today’s knowledge-based economy and fast growing world, it is the countries with workforces that are creative, adaptable, and skillful that will gain competitive advantage; therefore countries worldwide are designing and implementing policies to attract “the best and brightest” talents that are essential to their success. Highly skilled immigrants or foreign workers have made significant con...