All organizational functions carried out by classes can be accomplished in a simple and natural way by object inheritance in classless languages, with no need for special mechanisms. A single model—dividing types into prototypes and traits—supports sharing of behavior and extending or replacing representations. A natural extension, dynamic object inheritance, can model behavioral modes. Object ...

In this paper, we are proposing a multi­ lingual prototype that can effectively col­ lect, record and document medical data in a domain specific environment. The aim of this project is to develop an electronic support system that can be used to assist asthma management in an emergency de­ partment.

Abstract Purpose – This paper seeks to develop a novel legged robot. Design/methodology/approach – First, the paper models the legged robot using 3D computer model by intelligent inspiration of biological principles. Then, based on this model, it develops the prototype of the legged robot. Findings – A novel motion mechanism is used and only two actuators are used for driving the system. Origin...

In this paper we give a technical description of the PRIME system prototype. PRIME allows us to provide an operational side to the theoretical work we have done in the “Modelling and Multimedia Information Retrieval” (MRIM) team. PRIME is designed to provide a generic way to express the storing, manipulating and retrieval of multimedia data. These tasks are separated into two parts, namely the ...

We present a PVS specification of an invoicing system. We use PVS’s features to structure the specification, to define types and operations on them. We put special emphasis on PVS’s capabilities to add information to a specification meant to be redundant, and to check that this information for consistency. We heavily use the possibility to define the type of some argument to a function dependin...

Understanding data is usually done extracting fuzzy or crisp logical rules using neurofuzzy systems, decision trees and other approaches. Prototypebased rules are an interesting alternative providing in many cases simpler, more accurate and more comprehensible description of the data. Algorithm for generation of threshold prototype-based rules are described and a comparison with neurofuzzy syst...

The selection of prototypes for the dissimilarity space is a key aspect to overcome problems related to the curse of dimensionality and computational burden. How to properly define and select the prototypes is still an open issue. In this paper, we propose the selection of clusters as prototypes to create low-dimensional spaces. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is useful in ...

The need to change software easily to meet evolving business requirements is urgent, and a radical shift is required in the development of software, with a more demand-centric view leading to software which will be delivered as a service, within the framework of an open

We develop a prototype network forensics analysis tool that integrates presentation, manipulation and automated reasoning of intrusion evidence. We propose the evidence graph as a novel graph model to facilitate the presentation and manipulation of intrusion evidence. For automated evidence analysis, we develop a hierarchical reasoning framework that includes local reasoning and global reasonin...