A feature modeling approach for domain-specific requirement elicitation

Author(s):  
Olga De Troyer ◽  
Erik Janssens
2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZhangBing Zhou ◽  
Zehui Cheng ◽  
Ke Ning ◽  
Wenwen Li ◽  
Liang-Jie Zhang

With a huge volume of geospatial information being collected and a huge number of domain-specific functions being developed for processing these geospatial information, an increasing number of Open Geospatial Consortium Web services (OWSs) are built and being available on the Web for the accessibility and processing of these information. Given the specific requirement specified by a certain user, normally, a composition (or chain) of OWSs, rather than a single OWS, can fulfill this requirement. Consequently, retrieving and recommending sub-chains of possible service invocations is an important research challenge. Leveraging the semantic similarity between the name and text description of parameters, a degree that represents the invocation possibility between operations in OWSs is calculated. Thereafter, a service network model is constructed for capturing possible invocations between operations. Given a user's requirement which is represented in terms of a pair of initial and ending operations, possible sub-chains of operations are retrieved, ranked and recommended. Based on which the user can select the most appropriate sub-chain with respect to her specific requirement. The result of evaluation leveraging a real OWSs set indicates that our technique is applicable in real applications from both the functional and performance perspectives.


2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1918-1932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Falkovich ◽  
Isaac Ginis ◽  
Stephen Lord

Abstract A new ocean data assimilation and initialization procedure is presented. It was developed to obtain more realistic initial ocean conditions, including the position and structure of the Gulf Stream (GS) and Loop Current (LC), in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/University of Rhode Island (GFDL/URI) coupled hurricane prediction system used operationally at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction. This procedure is based on a feature-modeling approach that allows a realistic simulation of the cross-frontal temperature, salinity, and velocity of oceanic fronts. While previous feature models used analytical formulas to represent frontal structures, the new procedure uses the innovative method of cross-frontal “sharpening” of the background temperature and salinity fields. The sharpening is guided by observed cross sections obtained in specialized field experiments in the GS. The ocean currents are spun up by integrating the ocean model for 2 days, which was sufficient for the velocity fields to adjust to the strong gradients of temperature and salinity in the main thermocline in the GS and LC. A new feature-modeling approach was also developed for the initialization of a multicurrent system in the Caribbean Sea, which provides the LC source. The initialization procedure is demonstrated for coupled model forecasts of Hurricane Isidore (2002).


2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
Veera Prathap Reddy M ◽  
Prasad P.V.R.D ◽  
Manjunath Chikkamath ◽  
Karthikeyan Ponnalagu ◽  
Sarathchandra Mandadi ◽  
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Author(s):  
Vassiliki Gkantouna ◽  
Zafeiria-Marina Ioannou ◽  
Athanasios Tsakalidis ◽  
John Tsaknakis ◽  
Giannis Tzimas

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yali Wu ◽  
Andrew A. Allen ◽  
Frank Hernandez ◽  
Robert France ◽  
Peter J. Clarke

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