530 research outputs found
Using NLP tools in the specification phase
The software quality control is one of the main topics in the Software
Engineering area. To put the effort in the quality control during the
specification phase leads us to detect possible mistakes in an early
steps and, easily, to correct them before the design and implementation
steps start. In this framework the goal of SAREL system, a
knowledge-based system, is twofold. On one hand, to help software
engineers in the creation of quality Software Requirements
Specifications. On the other hand, to analyze the correspondence between
two different conceptual representations associated with two different
Software Requirements Specification documents.
For the first goal, a set of NLP and Knowledge management tools is
applied to obtain a conceptual representation that can be validated and
managed by the software engineer.
For the second goal we have established some correspondence measures in
order to get a comparison between two conceptual representations. This
information will be useful during the interaction.Postprint (published version
The Synonym management process in SAREL
The specification phase is one of the most important and least supported
parts of the software development process. The SAREL system has been
conceived as a knowledge-based tool to improve the specification phase.
The purpose of SAREL (Assistance System for Writing Software
Specifications in Natural Language) is to assist engineers in the
creation of software specifications written in Natural Language (NL).
These documents are divided into several parts. We can distinguish the
Introduction and the Overall Description as parts that should be used in
the Knowledge Base construction. The information contained in the
Specific Requirements Section corresponds to the information represented
in the Requirements Base. In order to obtain high-quality software
requirements specification the writing norms that define the linguistic
restrictions required and the software engineering constraints related
to the quality factors have been taken into account. One of the controls
performed is the lexical analysis that verifies the words belong to the
application domain lexicon which consists of the Required and the
Extended lexicon. In this sense a synonym management process is needed
in order to get a quality software specification. The aim of this paper
is to present the synonym management process performed during the
Knowledge Base construction. Such process makes use of the Spanish
Wordnet developed inside the Eurowordnet project. This process generates
both the Required lexicon and the Extended lexicon that will be used
during the Requirements Base construction.Postprint (published version
Interoperability and Standards: The Way for Innovative Design in Networked Working Environments
Organised by: Cranfield UniversityIn today’s networked economy, strategic business partnerships and outsourcing has become the dominant
paradigm where companies focus on core competencies and skills, as creative design, manufacturing, or
selling. However, achieving seamless interoperability is an ongoing challenge these networks are facing,
due to their distributed and heterogeneous nature. Part of the solution relies on adoption of standards for
design and product data representation, but for sectors predominantly characterized by SMEs, such as the
furniture sector, implementations need to be tailored to reduce costs. This paper recommends a set of best
practices for the fast adoption of the ISO funStep standard modules and presents a framework that enables
the usage of visualization data as a way to reduce costs in manufacturing and electronic catalogue design.Mori Seiki – The Machine Tool Compan
A relational approach to local immigrant policy-making: collaboration with immigrant advocacy bodies in French and German cities
The role of immigrant advocacy bodies in collaborative policy–making in cities isso far insufficiently researched. This article investigates the ties between relevanturban actors and immigrant advocacy bodies in cities in two Western Europeancountries. We draw on an original survey in forty French and German cities aswell asfieldwork in one French and one German city to analyze whetherurban actors from a variety of policy sectors and domains of societycooperate with immigrant councils and immigrant associations, and whichfactors explain such collaboration. Counter to the existing literature on therole of intermediaries between municipalities and immigrant populations, wefind a widespread existence of ties with immigrant advocacy bodies. However,such ties are not mainstreamed. Instead, collaboration is most present amongactors in charge of immigrant affairs, and when actors meet in policy fora thatallow interaction between urban actors and immigrant advocacy bodies
Estudi de l'anoditzat d'alumini: A6061/AI203/26p T6, A359/SiC/20p T6 i A356 (New-Rheocasting)
En aquest projecte es pretén l’estudi de la capa d’anoditzat d’alumini amb tres materials bases diferents.
A6061/Al2o3/26p T6 conformat per forja, A359/SiC/20p T6 conformat per fundició i A356 conformat en estat semi-sólid
pel procés New Rehocasting.
Per realitzar aquest estudi s’han efectuat un seguit d’assaigs per tal d’obtenir diferents propietats com ara la ultramicroduresa “Ultramicroduròmetre FISHERSCOPE H-100”,coeficient de fricció i velocitat de desgast “Tribòmetre Pin-on-Disc CSEM”, rugositat “TAYLOR-HOBSON Rugosimetre-
Perfilómetre” i espessor de capa “Equip d’anàlisi d’imatges LEICA”.
Posteriorment, s’ha realitzat l’anàlisi dels resultats i s’han extret les pertinents conclusions
Beyond the separation of church and state: Explaining the new governance of religious diversity in Spain
Religious affairs have gained prominence in Spanish politics in recent years. Two factors have played a crucial role in raising the profile of religion in the policy agenda: first, the growth of religious diversity due to the rapid influx of immigrants from the global south that has led to the emergence of multiple challenges and controversies concerning the accommodation of religious diversity; second, the effects of the Al-Qaeda attacks on Spanish soil that fostered policymakers’ perception of the need to “do something” to reinforce Muslim newcomers’ loyalty to the host country. In light of these events, the Spanish policy approach has changed considerably in the last years, being the creation of the public foundation Pluralismo y Convivencia in 2004 being the most illustrative case in point. The aim of this paper is to explain the tranfromations in the governance of religious diversity in Spain. Drawing upon qualitative fieldwork done between 2010 and 2013, we argue that three different political logics underlie the developments leading to the current policy outcome: the logic of democratization, the logic of securitisation of Islam and the logic of the Europeanisation of politics. In this paper we explain these transformations by using a sequential combination of three theoretical approaches: a) the church-state relations approach, b) the theory of control and c) the European convergence perspective
Quantum Error Correction with magnetic molecules
Quantum algorithms often assume independent spin qubits to produce trivial
, mappings. This can
be unrealistic in many solid-state implementations with sizeable magnetic
interactions. Here we show that the lower part of the spectrum of a molecule
containing three exchange-coupled metal ions with and is
equivalent to nine electron-nuclear qubits. We derive the relation between spin
states and qubit states in reasonable parameter ranges for the rare earth
Tb and for the transition metal Cu, and study the
possibility to implement Shor's Quantum Error Correction code on such a
molecule. We also discuss recently developed molecular systems that could be
adequate from an experimental point of view.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 table
Identification of strong and weak interacting two level systems in KBr:CN
Tunneling two level systems (TLSs) are believed to be the source of phenomena
such as the universal low temperature properties in disordered and amorphous
solids, and noise. The existence of these phenomena in a large variety of
dissimilar physical systems testifies for the universal nature of the TLSs,
which however, is not yet known. Following a recent suggestion that attributes
the low temperature TLSs to inversion pairs [M. Schechter and P.C.E. Stamp,
arXiv:0910.1283.] we calculate explicitly the TLS-phonon coupling of inversion
symmetric and asymmetric TLSs in a given disordered crystal. Our work (a)
estimates parameters that support the theory in M. Schechter and P.C.E. Stamp,
arXiv:0910.1283, in its general form, and (b) positively identifies, for the
first time, the relevant TLSs in a given system.Comment: minor modifications, published versio
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