[...]... boxes represent information sources, the ovals illustrate the inferences made by the Flights selection agent and arrows indicate information flows between the information sources and the inferences In this figure, the Flights selection agent takes the information related to flights and the user profile information, in order to determine the existing flights Following, it combines the existing flights with... Algorithm and its Application to Job Shop Scheduling Problems, Mitsuaki Higuchi and Morio Nagata A Web-Based VOD Clipping Tool for Efficient Private Review, Nobuhiko Miyahara, Haruhiko Kaiya and Kenji Kaijiri A Text Mining System DIREC: Discovering Relationships between Keywords by Filtering, Extracting and Clustering, Tsunenori Mine, Shimiao Lu and Makoto Amamiya Design Creation Support Database System in. .. takes the information given by the Client and searches for similar information into the different airlines databases, finally giving a set of possible flights that the client may book Actors Travel Agent and Flights Database Preconditions Sufficient information about client profile and have access to the airlines databases Exceptions Do not find information of flights or erroneous/ incomplete information... Support Software Maintenance and Reuse Activities, Dirk Deridder Meta-data and ER Model Automatic Generation from Unstructured Information Resources, Javier Gramajo and David Riano On Efficiency of Dataset Filtering Implementations in Constraint-based Discovery of Frequent Itemsets, Marek Wojciechowski and Maciej Zakrzewicz Exploiting Informal Communities in Information Retrieval, Christo Dichev Searching... classes in order to building and operating knowledge databases, following an object-oriented approach The experience of combining coordination and expertise through AGLETS and JESS was very positive, and the fact that both were based on Java facilitates the whole process 4 Conclusions The agent-based approach to system development offers a natural means of conceptualising, designing and building distributed... Kouji Watanabe and Yoshiaki Fukazawa 234 A Domain Ontology Development Environment Using a MRD and Text Corpus, Naomi Nakaya, Masaki Kurematsu and Takahira Yamaguchi 242 Knowledge Modeling and Reasoning Role of Case-based Reasoning in Neurology Decision Support, Mirjana Ivanovic, V Kurbalija, Zoran Budimac and M Semnic Software Architecture for Intelligent CAD Systems, Toyohiko Hirota and Masa-aki Hashimoto... Software agent (one for each participating airline) that obtains flight information from the database of its associated airline • Flight selection agent: Software agent which determines the most suitable flights for a client • Reservation agent: Software agent that receives the request for a flight reservation and is in charge of either confirming or cancelling the reservations The methodology defines... selection agent activity diagram and its corresponding textual template for the main activities As shown in Figure 1, the Flights selection agent initiates the process of information request to the Database agents; then it infers this information in order to determine all available flights and their corresponding classes In the absence of available flights, the agent terminates the process; otherwise... Aggregation Constraint for Business Process Modeling in an Example of Building Construction, Seiya Aman, Toshifumi Kai, Masaaki Hashimoto, Yoshiaki Tegoshi, Toyohiko Hirota and Keiichi Katamine 145 Using Mobile Devices for Personalized Information, Kimmo Salmenjoki and Riku Jantti 154 Program Understanding, Reuse, Knowledge Discovery An Automatic Method for Refactoring Java Programs, Seiya Yamazaki and Morio... each model included in this methodology, illustrating the complete development of both the coordination and expertise models We incorporate UML activity diagrams in the task model and use sequence diagrams to model communication between agents (human and software) and to detail the participation of each agent We illustrate the implementation of the system using AGLETS, an agent building tool, and emphasize . software and information systems; requirements engineering; domain analysis and modeling; formal and semiformal specifications; knowledge engineering for domain modeling; data mining . following information. PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS Foreword The present book contains the proceedings of the Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering (JCKBSE) held in . all the three covered areas, i.e. knowledge engineering, software engineering and knowledge-based software engineering. The JCKBSE 2002 proceedings are a collection of contributions of