The PM project is introduced. Its goal is the design of a distributed object-oriented operating system. One of the research activities is the design of an object model for distributed object-oriented programming. This position papers presents the PM Object Model approach to distribution, concurrency control and object interaction. The system consists of an application system, a distribution sys...

Several papers relate different alternative approaches to classical concept lattices: such as property-oriented and object-oriented concept lattices and the dual concept lattices. Whereas the usual approach to the latter is via a negation operator, this paper presents a fuzzy generalization of the dual concept lattice, the dual multi-adjoint concept lattice, in which the philosophy of the multi...

p. ix Conference Committee p. xi Invited Papers Obtaining Precision When Integrating Information p. 1 From Object-Oriented Programming to Ontology-Driven Modeling p. 15 Agents and Electronic Commerce, Hype and Reality p. 22 Must a Computer Have a User? p. 36 Resource Allocation in Large Scale Systems, a Decoupling Approach p. 41 Databases and Information Systems Integration Iodbcon: An Integrat...

The competitive academic atmosphere of the higher education worldwide along with the current trend in producing research-oriented knowledge by universities has made research publication the first priority for doctoral students. In this study, we addressed the conceptions of purpose, process, and product of publishing research articles among Iranian doctoral students of applied linguistics. To t...

the the main objective of this research paper is to present 3-d elasticity solution for free vibration analysis of elastically supported continuously graded carbon nanotube-reinforced (cgcntr) annular plates. the volume fractions of oriented, straight single-walled carbon nanotubes (swcnts) are assumed to be graded in the thickness direction. an equivalent continuum model based on the eshelby-m...

the major purpose of the present this study is to reviews the classifications of approaches to religious education, and introducing an alternative classification of religious educator theory. to this end, approaches to islamic education which have been categorized typologically and are associated with the cognitive context of iranian intellectuals have been studied. in line with this goal, the ...

The methods presented in this paper allow for a spatial analysis revealing centers of excellence around the world using programs that are freely available. Based on Web of Science data, fieldspecific excellence can be identified in cities where highly-cited papers were published. Compared to the mapping approaches published hitherto, our approach is more analytically oriented by allowing the as...

The INVITE'2008 is the 4 international workshop and serve as a forum for the exchange of information and ideas regarding with not only Network-based Virtual Reality and Tele-existence, 2 and 3D Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, but also multimedia, Object-oriented approach, Web technology and e-Learning. This year, there were a number of papers submitted from several countries. Finally, ex...

the purpose of this research was to analyze efl writing tasks in two of the most popular english for speakers of other languages (esol) exam preparation courses in iran, namely ielts and toefl. having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, we asked 60 learner participants to rate efl writing tasks in 3 ielts and 3...