Abstract. In order to retrieve, select and apply design patterns in a tool-supported way, we suggest to construct and document a problemcontext pattern that reflects the essence of the problems that the design pattern is meant to solve. In our approach, software engineers can choose examples

Abstract. In order to retrieve, select and apply design patterns in a tool-supported way, we suggest to construct and document a problem-context pattern that reflects the essence of the problems that the design pattern is meant to solve. In our approach, software engineers can choose examples

This paper introduces a formal conceptual framework for software development, based on a problem-oriented perspective that stretches from requirements engineering through to program code. In a software problem the goal is to develop a machine—that is, a computer executing the software

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, cluster analysis, classifier design and learning, selection of training and test samples, and performance evaluation. In spite of almost 50 years of research and development in this field, the general problem of recognizing complex patterns with arbitrary orientation, location, and scale remains unsolved

high-dimensional patterns, such as handwritten characters, with minimal preprocessing. This paper reviews various methods applied to handwritten character recognition and compares them on a standard handwritten digit recognition task. Convolutional neural networks, which are specifically designed

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The proliferation of topic hierarchies for text documents has resulted in a need for tools that automatically classify new documents within such hierarchies. Existing classification schemes which ignore the hierarchical structure and treat the topics as separate classes are often inadequate in text

This paper presents a methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design. The methodology is general, in that it is applicable to a wide range of multi-agent systems, and comprehensive, in that it deals with both the macro-level (societal) and the micro-level (agent) aspects of systems

to software development, with perhaps the most prominent being object-orientation (00). In addition, the focus on process improvement has increased the demand for software measures, or metrics with which to manage the process. The need for such metrics is particularly acute when an organization is adopting a