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Simplification of UML/OCL schemas for efficient reasoning [PDF]
Ensuring the correctness of a conceptual schema is an essential task in order to avoid the propagation of errors during software development. The kind of reasoning required to perform such task is known to be exponential for UML class diagrams alone and ...
Oriol Hilari, Xavier +1 more
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Complete Conceptual Schema Algebras
A schema algebra comprises operations on database schemata for a given data model. Such algebras are useful in database design as well as in schema integration. In this article we address the necessary theoretical underpinnings by introducing a novel notion of conceptual schema morphism that captures at the same time the conceptual schema and its ...
Ma, Hui +4 more
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Making context explicit in equation construction and interpretation: Symbolic blending
Much of physics involves the construction and interpretation of equations. Research on physics students’ understanding and application of mathematics has employed Sherin’s symbolic forms or Fauconnier and Turner’s conceptual blending as analytical ...
Benjamin P. Schermerhorn +1 more
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Evolving temporal conceptual schemas: the reification case [PDF]
We study temporal conceptual schema evolutions related to reification, a typical and complex modeling construct. Various types of reification are considered.
Gómez Seoane, Cristina +2 more
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Correction of conceptual schemas [PDF]
This paper presents the interim results of a research project aimed at the prototyping of an automatic tool, Rubis, to aid in the development of, validate and correct the conceptual specification of information systems.
Souveyet, Carine, Rolland, Colette
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Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS) assists farmers in managing their farms more effectively and efficiently. However, the use of FMIS to support crop cultivation is, at the present time, relatively expensive for smallholder farmers.
Henriyadi Henriyadi +2 more
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The Substitution Principle Revisited [PDF]
In their Anachronic Renaissance, Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood identify two principles upon which, in fifteenth-century Europe, a work of art might establish its validity or authority: substitution and performance. It has become established wisdom
Stejskal, Jakub
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This study investigated automatic priming, schema induction, the spread of activation, and L2 lexical access through vocabulary size and depth. Employing the theoretical framework of the distributed memory representation, the underlying assumption was ...
Stephen Ntim
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A video life-world approach to consultation practice: The relevance of a socio-phenomenological approach [PDF]
This article discusses the [development and] use of a video life-world schema to explore alternative orientations to the shared health consultation. It is anticipated that this schema can be used by practitioners and consumers alike to understand the ...
A Cribb +45 more
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An attempt is made at refuting the idea that figurative uses of prepositions are chaotic. Figurative uses of the preposition on are explained as the result of metaphorical mappings from the physical domain onto abstract domains. The semantic structure of
Ignasi Navarro Ferrando
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