CBD (Component Based Development) aims at constructing software through the inter-relationship between preexisting components. However, these components must be connected to a specific domain of application in order to reuse components effectively. In general, reusable components are stored in a great variety of data sources. Thus, a possible solution for accessing domain information is to use ...

“For over thirty years science fiction writers have spun yarns featuring worldwide networks of interconnected computers that behave as a single entity. Until recently such science fiction fantasies have been just that. Technological changes are now occurring which may expand computational power in the same way that the invention of desk top calculators and personal computers did. In the near fu...

Many applications need to access multiple heterogeneous data sources. The integration of these data sources raises several semantic heterogeneity problems. In existing systems, it is difficult to provide the high quality result to the end users due to the heterogeneity, inaccuracy of the facts in data sources. This paper is proposed to resolve semantic heterogeneity problem in integration by us...

Some common systems modelling and simulation approaches for immune problems are Monte Carlo simulations, system dynamics, discrete-event simulation and agent-based simulation. These methods, however, are still not widely adopted in immunology research. In addition, to our knowledge, there is few research on the processes for the development of simulation models for the immune system. Hence, for...

Distributed Association Rule Mining (DARM) is the task for generating the globally strong association rules from the global frequent itemsets in a distributed environment. The intelligent agent based model, to address scalable mining over large scale distributed data, is a popular approach to constructing Distributed Data Mining (DDM) systems and is characterized by a variety of agents coordina...

We present an approach for intelligent sharing of geographic information. The approach is based on the idea of an intelligent broker that is able to query semantic descriptions of data sources and software components available ever the World Wide Web (WWW). In the paper we discuss the use of ontologies for the semantic description of information sources, and define requirements for the semantic...

In a growing number of domains, recommender systems support users’ decision making processes in finding entities (such as book, movies, or newspaper articles) matching their individual preferences. Individual preferences vary extensively thus hampering the creation of good recommender systems. Additionally, the relevance of items to users depends on a plethora of criteria. Such relevance criter...

Accompanying myriad definitions of critical literacy is an absence of pedagogical models for implementing critical literacy in teacher education contexts. This action research explores critical literacy with pre-service and in-service teachers in teacher education courses offered in the United States. The primary data sources include online weekly discussions on course readings in the TESOL met...