ion level in the implementation Another property of structural source-code regularities is that they are generally prevalent at a particular abstraction level in the implementation. Similar to the work of Buschmann et al. [BMR+96] on pattern-oriented software architecture, we distinguish between three abstraction levels which regularities can occur at: 2.1. STRUCTURAL SOURCE-CODE REGULARITIES 1...

Syntactic regularities are repetitive structures of axioms in the asserted form of an ontology. In this paper, we present a Protégé4 plugin based on the RIO (Regularities Inspector for Ontologies) framework, which detects such regularities in ontologies using cluster analysis. The RIO plugin is an open source tool for visualising syntactic regularities in ontologies; the user can load them in P...

In four experiments we investigated whether human observers are able to use certain regularities in polygons when they have to indicate which polygon they perceive as the more regular in a paired comparison task. From our results we conclude that regularities that are restricted to the contour do not play a role in judgments of regularity. For instance, equilateral polygons are not considered t...

KOMATSU, LLOYD K., and GAL0-ni, KATHLEEN M. Children's Reasoning about Socia1, Physica1, and Logical Regularities: A Look at Two Worlds. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1986, 57, 413-420. In 2 studies, 6-, 8-, and 10-year-0ld children were interviewed about 3 different types of regularities or rules social conventions, physical laws, and logical necessities. In the first study, children were asked if regula...

The environment often is stable, but some aspects may change over time. The challenge for the visual system is to discover and flexibly adapt to the changes. We examined how attention is shifted in the presence of changes in the underlying structure of the environment. In six experiments, observers viewed four simultaneous streams of objects while performing a visual search task. In the first h...

Well-written object-oriented programs exhibit many structural regularities ranging from naming and coding conventions, through design patterns, to architectural constraints. Tools and environments that aid a software developer in constructing, understanding or modifying object-oriented programs should be able to reason about and manipulate such regularities. We codify structural regularities of...

Regularities, or the conformity to unifying principles, are essential to the comprehensibility, manageability and reliability of large software systems. Yet, as is argued in this paper, the inherent globality of regularities makes them very hard to establish in traditional methods. This paper explores an approach to regularities for object systems which greatly simplifies their implementation, ...

Humans are known to continuously extract regularities from the flow of stimulation. This occurs in many facets of behavior, including reading. In spite of the ubiquitous evidence that readers become sensitive to orthographic regularities after very little exposure to print, the role of orthographic regularities receives at best a peripheral status in current theories of orthographic processing....

A recent topic in probabilistic network learning is to exploit local network structure, i.e. to capture regularities in the conditional probability distributions, and to learn networks with local structure from data. In this paper we apply this idea to possibilistic networks, i.e. we try to capture regularities in conditional possibility distributions, and present a modification of the learning...