Dependency relationships play an important role in testing, maintenance and configuration management of software systems. The informal dependency representations fail to observe behavioral connections among subsystems and cause ambiguity in representing different types of dependency relationships. Therefore, dependency in a software system requires a formal and unambiguous representation so tha...

This paper summarizes results of automatic analysis of coordinating constructions and appositions in the Prague Dependency Treebank using a method of analysis by reduction. Experiments are performed on a large subset of the treebank. This subset is obtained as a result of a query providing a set of more than 4,300 suitable sentences and their tree structures containing coordinations and apposit...

It is shown how the Taylor Model approach allows the rigorous description of functional dependencies with far-reaching control of the dependency problem. The amount of overestimation decreases with a high power of the interval over which the information is required, at a computational expense that increases rather moderately with the dimensionality of the problem. This leads to the possibility ...

Medical outcome studies often use Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs), and these often take the form of administered or self-completed questionnaires. Often, the responses from these scales are simply added up as a total, and this total score is utilised for outcome purposes. However, for this approach to be valid, there are a number of underlying assumptions that are being made. One of these assu...

In this research, a Dependency Network Analysis technique has been adapted to assess operability, reliability, and resilience in both operational and development networks, associated with System of System architectures. The architecture is modeled as a directed network where nodes represent either the component systems or the capabilities to be acquired. Links on the network represent various k...

background: although extensive development of technology provides welfare and accessibility for families but it may be one of the threatening factors for them. the unique characteristics of internet such as availability and facility are useful, but over using for its exciting content cause to internet addiction between family members. the aim of this study was to explain the experiences of the ...

The robustness of complex networks with dependencies has been studied in recent years. However, previous studies focused on the robustness of networks composed of dependency links without network topology. In this study, we will analyze the percolation properties of a realistic network model where dependency links follow certain network topology. We perform the theoretical analysis and numerica...