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The objective of the workshops associated with ER 2001, the 20th International Con- rence on Conceptual Modeling, was to give participants the opportunity to present and discuss emerging hot topics, thus adding new perspectives to conceptual modeling. This, the 20th ER conference, the ?rst of the 21st century, was also the ?rst one in Japan. The conference was held on November 27-30, 2001 at Yokohama National University with 192 participants from 31 countries. ER 2001 encompasses the entire spectrum of c- ceptual modeling, from theoretical aspects to implementations, including fundamentals, applications, and software engineering. In particular, ER 2001 emphasized e-business and reengineering...
JCKBSE aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest developments in the areas of knowledge engineering and software engineering. Particular emphasis is placed upon applying knowledge-based methods to software engineering problems. This volume is a collection of contributions of authors from 8 different countries. The book covers a wide range of topics related to knowledge-based or automated software engineering. architecture of knowledge; software and information systems; requirement engineering; domain analysis and modelling; formal and semiformal specifications; knowledge engineering for domain modelling; data mining and knowledge discovery; automating so...
This edited book invites the reader to explore how the latest technologies developed in computational intelligence can be extended and applied to software engineering. Leading experts demonstrate how this recent confluence of software engineering and computational intelligence provides a powerful tool to address the increasing demand for complex applications in diversified areas, the ever-increasing complexity and size of software systems, and the inherently imperfect nature of the information. The presented treatments to software modeling and formal analysis permit the extension of computational intelligence to various phases in software life cycles, such as managing fuzziness resident in the requirements, coping with fuzzy objects and imprecise knowledge, and handling uncertainty encountered in quality prediction.
This volume comprises a collection of papers from the 12th international conference on information networking. (ICOIN-12) held in Tokyo 1998. Technical papers on communication networks and distributed systems were presented, along side internet-based electronic commerce network systems, academic research papers, e.g. high-speed communication ATM.
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This book presents selected papers by members of the Special Interest Group for Groupware of the Information Processing Society of Japan, which captures the state of the art of CSCW and groupware research in Japan.
This book reviews the recent advances in hydrothermal conversion of biomass into chemicals and fuels, and consists of 15 chapters. It introduces the properties of high-temperature water, the merits of hydrothermal conversion of biomass, and some novel hydrothermal conversion processes, mainly including hydrothermal production of value-added products, hydrothermal gasification, hydrothermal liquefaction and hydrothermal carbonization. This book introduces a new concept for counteracting the imbalance in the carbon cycle, which is caused by the rapid consumption of fossil fuels in anthropogenic activities in combination with the slow formation of fossil fuels. Accordingly, the book is useful in conveying a fundamental understanding of hydrothermal conversion of biomass in the carbon cycle so that a contribution can be made to achieving sustainable energy and environment. It is also interesting to a wide readership in various fields including chemical, geologic and environmental science and engineering. Fangming Jin is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Environmental Science & Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China