Seamless integration of rule-based knowledge and object-oriented functionality with linguistic symbiosis

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1328-1335

  D'Hondt, Maja ^a,b   Gybels, Kris ^a,c   Jonckers, Viviane ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b Flemish Inst Prom Sci TRI   (Belgium)

^c FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Linguistic symbiosis; Multi paradigm programming; Rule based systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS;

LINGUISTIC SYMBIOSIS; LOGIC REASONING; MULTI-PARADIGM PROGRAMMING; RULE-BASED SYSTEMS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 2442602551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/967900.968168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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