abstract: in this study an appropriate computational approach was presented for estimating the boiling temperatures of 41 different types of olefins and their derivatives. based on the guidelines of this approach, several structural indices related to the organic components were applied using graph theory. meanwhile, in addition to evaluating the relation between the boiling temperatures of ole...

Graph transformation (GT) is being increasingly used in Model Driven Engineering (MDE) to describe in-place transformations like animations and refactorings. For its practical use, rules are often complemented with OCL application conditions. The advancement of rule post-conditions into pre-conditions is a well-known problem in GT, but current techniques do not consider OCL. In this paper we pr...

The Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) vision of the Object Management Group offers a unique opportunity for introducing Graph Transformation (GT) technology to the software industry. The paper proposes a domainspecific refinement of MDA, and describes a practical manifestation of MDA called Model-Integrated Computing (MIC). MIC extends MDA towards domainspecific modeling languages, and it is well...

qualitative data to construct theories ‘grounded’ in the data themselves...” (Charmaz 2006, p.2). According to Glaser and Strauss (1967) Grounded Theory Methods (GTM) represent a rigorous set of practices for exploring a new domain or a domain which lacks a dominant theory. However, Grounded Theory (GT) is not just a set of procedures to be followed in a study, but an approach which supports th...

In 2006, Espinola and Kirk made a useful contribution on combining fixed point theoryand graph theory. Recently, Reich and Zaslavski studied a new inexact iterative scheme for fixed points of contractive and nonexpansive multifunctions. In this paper, by using  the main idea of their work and the idea of combining fixed point theory on intuitionistic fuzzy metric spaces and graph theory, ...

This chapter provides a brief introduction to the grounded theory (GT) approach to research, discussing how it has been used in information systems (IS) research, and how GT studies may be conducted to provide a significant theoretical contribution to the management information systems (MIS) field. The subject is of particular interest at a time when GT attracts frequent criticism for a lack of...

This paper investigates the potential for Leximancer software to actively support the Grounded Theory (GT) analyst in assessing the “completeness” of their study. The case study takes an existing GT study and retrospectively analyzes the data with Leximancer. The Leximancer output showed encouraging similarities to the main themes emerging from the GT analysis; but not sufficiently at the selec...

Abstract: Nowadays knowledge is recognized as an important enabler for competitive advantages and many companies are beginning to establish knowledge management systems. Within the last few years many organizations tried to design a suitable knowledge management system and many of them were successful. This paper is to discover critical success factors (CSF) of knowledge management (KM) and the...

Automated model transformations play an important role in modern model-driven system engineering in order to query, derive and manipulate large, industrial models. Since such transformations are frequently integrated to design environments, they need to provide short reaction time to support software engineers. Graph transformation (GT) [1] based tools have been frequently used for specifying a...