This paper presents an experimental evaluation of the methodology documentation template proposed by the IEEE FIPA Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation working group [1]. Generally aimed at agent-oriented methodologies, the template is here put to the test by documenting the SODA methodology, so as to obtain a partial but significant evaluation of the template’s strengths and weaknesses.

anodic aluminum oxide (aao) fabricated by two step anodization technique, is used as a template to synthesize feco nanowire arrays by ac electrodeposition technique. response surface methodology (rsm) is applied to design the experiments, fit an empirical model and optimize the conditions to achieve the best magnetic properties. the magnetic properties, pore dimensions, composition and structur...

Method engineering has widely been proposed as an approach to delivering industrial strength software development processes to spur the adoption of agent-based software in industry. The Foundation for Physical Agents Technical Committee (FIPA-TC) Methodology group is currently attempting to define a template for documenting process fragments. This paper presents our experience in applying the t...

This paper presents a methodology for shape analysis of anatomical structures. A template shape is used as a unit, and a shape transformation mapping the template to a particular structure is used to quantify the shape of the structure with respect to the template. The geometric characteristics of the boundaries of the template and of an individual structure are used to deene corresponding regi...

Protein structural information is essential for the detailed mapping of a functional protein network. For higher modelling accuracy and quicker implementation, template-based algorithms have been extensively deployed redefined. The methods only assess predicted structure against its native state/template do not estimate each step. A divergence measure therefore postulated to theoretical optimal...

Next generation sequencing technologies, like ultra-deep pyrosequencing (UDPS), allows detailed investigation of complex populations, like RNA viruses, but its utility is limited by errors introduced during sample preparation and sequencing. By tagging each individual cDNA molecule with barcodes, referred to as Primer IDs, before PCR and sequencing these errors could theoretically be removed. H...

Exceptions in safety-critical systems must be addressed during conceptual design and risk analysis. We developed a conceptual model of exceptions, a methodology for eliciting and modeling exceptions, and templates for modeling them in an extension of the Object-Process Methodology (OPM)-a system analysis and design methodology and language that uses a single graphical model for describing syste...

With growing interest in automated event extraction, there is an increasing need to overcome the labor costs of hand-written event templates, entity lists, and annotated corpora. In the last few years, more inductive approaches have emerged, seeking to discover unknown event types and roles in raw text. The main recent efforts use probabilistic generative models, as in topic modeling, which are...

Collaboration Engineering (CE) is a new field o f research and practice which involves the design of recurring collaboration processes that are meant to cause predictable and success among organizations ’ recurring mission-critical collaborative tasks. To measure the effectiveness o f CE research efforts, we would need to use a research methodology. This article therefore provides an overview o...