SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS MODELING: Theoretical and Practical Issues Book

270 Pages·2018·15.936 MB·English

by  Gerard Prudhomme

SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS
MODELING: THEORETICAL AND
PRACTICAL ISSUES

SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS MODELING:
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES
Gerard Prudhomme
ARCLER
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Software and Systems Modeling: Theoretical and Practical Issues
Gerard Prudhomme
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gerard I. Prudhomme has a graduate degree (M.S.) for Computer Science
from University College London (UCL). He has also worked as a software
programmer and tech writer for different Fortune 500 companies, and
studied at UCL, Harvard, and Oxford.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures ................................................................................................xi
Preface........................................................................ ................................xix
Chapter 1 Facilitating Access to the Multi-Mode Information of a User ....................1
Chapter 2 Weighted Semantic Networks .................................................................11
2.1. The Degree Of Involvement of the Different Phases ..........................12
Chapter 3 Development of a Prototype ...................................................................17
Chapter 4 A Generic Personalization Tool Based on a Multi-Agent
Architecture ............................................................................................21
Chapter 5 Comparative Study of Methods of Designing Computerized
Information Systems ................................................................................27
5.1. Use Case Driven Object Modeling With UML ..................................28
Chapter 6 Scientific Computation ............................................................................31
6.1. Sample Data For a Search Query ......................................................40
Chapter 7 Architectures and Methods for Development .........................................51
7.1. Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on The Web ............................57
7.2. Data Modeling ..................................................................................58
Chapter 8 Exploring the Web with Agents ...............................................................61
Chapter 9 An Intelligent Graphical User Interface ..................................................65
Chapter 10 Computer Design ....................................................................................73
Chapter 11 Methodology Phases Involved Analysis Specification ..............................79
Chapter 12 Agent Research and Development ..........................................................85
Chapter 13 Unified Process Degree of Involvement ..................................................89
Chapter 14 Structured Programming .........................................................................95
Chapter 15 Database Object Component ................................................................105
Chapter 16 Asynchronous Processing ......................................................................109
Chapter 17 UML Formalism .....................................................................................119
Chapter 18 Extending UML ......................................................................................125
18.1. Processing Client-Server Representations ......................................129
Chapter 19 Incremental Development .....................................................................137
Chapter 20 User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction .......................................143
Chapter 21 Architectures and Methods for Customized is Development ................149
21.1. References For Development Methodology ..................................154
Chapter 22 Intelligent Agents ..................................................................................161
22.1. Agent Theories ..............................................................................163
Chapter 23 Architectures and Languages .................................................................165
Chapter 24 Multi-Factor Concepts ...........................................................................177
Chapter 25 Guiding Constraint Relaxations .............................................................181
Chapter 26 Distributed Constraint Satisfaction .......................................................185
26.1 Prototypes of User Model-Based Intelligent Agents .......................186
Chapter 27 Document Filtering and Navigation ......................................................195
Chapter 28 Agent Communication Languages .........................................................197
Chapter 29 A New Graph-Theoretic
Approach ..............................................................................................199
Chapter 30 User Modeling and Personalization of Human-Computer Interaction ..201
Chapter 31 Modeling Rational Agents .....................................................................205
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