The preface paradox is the apparent pragmatic inconsistency that occurs when the author of a book declares in its preface that despite believing that it is highly probable that everything the book maintains is true it is also highly probable that the book contains at least some errors. The preface paradox has often been presented as an example of a logically inconsistent belief that it is never...

Over decades now, as spelt out clearly in the Preface and throughout book, Tony has constantly extended developed his knowledge ideas, reflecting on what they imply for teaching, te...

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This volume contains the proceedings of four workshops organized in connection with CAiSE'03, the 15 th instance in the series of Conferences on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. The workshops tradition has always been very active in CAiSE, the aim of workshops being to debate traditional topics in specialized sectors related to advanced information systems engineering, as well as promo...

As information systems use becomes more widespread and more individuals and organizations rely on the Internet as a means of conducting business, it becomes ever more important to assure that the Internet is a place where privacy is protected. Additionally, as organizations rely more on information systems, they become vulnerable to attacks on these precious technologies. These are just some of...

ion is essential in any software reuse technique. As Wegner states, abstraction and reusability are two sides of the same coin [Weg83]. Krueger states that \without abstraction developers would be forced to sift through a collection of reusable artifacts trying to gure out what each artifact did, when it could be reused, and how to reuse it." [Kru92]. Raising abstraction levels is a major chall...

contains a new preface. The reviewer is compelled to admit that the preface of Lyra Modulata is beyond his range of appreciation and that he does not grasp the subtlety of the poet's " musaic spelling." The preface of In Exile though newly-written contains little new matter. It gives a somewhat incoherent account of the indifference shown by the world in general, and the English-speaking races ...

Karina Gibert a,∗ and Carles Sierra b a Knowledge Engineering and Machine Learning Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain and Department of Statistics and Operation Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain E-mail: [email protected] b Institut d’Investigació en Intel·ligència Artificial, Bellaterra, Spain E-mail: sier...