This paper presents a practical and a theoretical comparative study between the so-called
Notification-Oriented Inference (NOI) and Rete Network inference. NOI is composed of a …

The object-oriented approach provides an appropriate context for an integrated description
of finite element related techniques within a single unified environment, combining symbolic …

The work presented in this book stems from a collaboration between ILOG and the
University of Freiburg, Germany. ILOG was a French software company, founded in 1987 as …

Standard object-oriented languages do not provide language support for modeling
changing collections of interdependent objects. We propose that R++, an integration of the …

A materialização original do Paradigma Orientado a Notificações (PON) implementada na
linguagem de programação C++ possibilitou a criação de aplicações sob o domínio desse …

Object-oriented programming has recently emerged as one of the most important
programming paradigms. While object-oriented programming clearly owes an intellectual …

Object-oriented languages and rule-based languages offer two distinct and useful
programming abstractions. However, previous attempts to integrate data-driven rules into …

Device representation and reasoning with affective relations occupies a middle ground
between classical model-based diagnosis and heuristic expert systems. A device is …

Declarative programming, in the form of forward-chaining rule languages, offers advantages
complementary to procedurally based object-oriented programming languages. The Venus …

Business Rules (BRs) are a commonly used tool in industry for the automation of repetitive
decisions. The emerging problem of adapting existing sets of BRs to an ever-changing …