The LD-CAST project aims at developing a semantic cooperation and interoperability platform for the European Chambers of Commerce. Some of the key issues that this platform addresses are: The variety and number of different kinds of resources (i.e., business processes, concrete services) that concur to achieve a ...

The paper augments the results achieved in the research of Semantic Web technologies for semantic search application, underlining the importance of integrating Information Visualization into semantic web technologies.

The adoption of advanced integration technologies that enable private and public organizations to seamlessly execute their business transactions electronically is still relatively low, especially among governmental bodies and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Current solutions often lack a common understanding of the underlying business document semantics and most ...

The dynamic nature of threats and vulnerabilities within the E-business environment can impede online functionality, compromise organisational or customer information, contravene security implementations and thereby undermine online customer confidence. To negate these problems, E-business security has to become proactive, by reviewing and continuously improving security to ...

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Despite numerous proposals for its creation, the semantic web has yet to achieve widespread adoption. Recently, some researchers have argued that participation in the semantic web is too difficult for "ordinary" people, limiting its growth and popularity.

-01) and Arcadia (TIC2002-1948); by the European Commission under the projects DIP, Knowledge Web, Ontoweb, SEKTThe Semantic Web Services Tetrahedron: Achieving Integration with Semantic Web Services 1 Juan.acuna@urjc.es Abstract. Web Engineering is going through several major changes. New promising application fields related

In recent years, the Internet evolved from a global medium for information exchange (directed mainly towards human users) into a �global, virtual work environment � (for both human users and machines). Building on the world-wide-web, developments such as grid technology, web services and the semantic web contributed to this transformation, the implications of which are now ...

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An approach for systematically modifying the semantics of programming languages by semantics modifiers is described. Semantics modifiers are a class of programs that allow the development of general and reusable "semantics components". Language independence is achieved through the ...

We carried out an fMRI study with a twofold purpose: to investigate the relationship between networks dedicated to semantic and visual processing and to address the issue of whether semantic memory is subserved by a unique network or by different subsystems, according to semantic category or feature type. To ...

Semantic web-enabled agents offer tremendous promise for enabling automated coordination and negotiation amongst diverse participants. Ideally, a user should be able to quickly instruct his personal agent to achieve some goal, e.g., to schedule a meeting ...

The search for the Holy Grail in achieving interoperability of business processes, services and semantics continues with every new type or search for the Silver Bullet. Most approaches towards interoperability either are focusing narrowly on the simplistic notion using technology supporting a cowboy-style development without much regard to metadata or ...

This paper presents the findings of an empirical study of critical factors associated with e-business success. An a priori model relating the success factors to e-business success is developed. The study uses the "balanced scorecard" methodology to measure the success of e-business organizations, as the authors believe that financial measures are not the only indicators. Eight hypotheses are ...

of Programming Languages � Denotational semantics. General Terms Algorithms, Design, Languages. Keywords 001- 509-335-0922 rta@eecs.wsu.edu ABSTRACT In software engineering community, semantic interoperability usually has been ignored despite its significant importance. To achieve semantic level

As a system-level modelling language, SystemC possesses several novel features such as delayed notifications, notification cancelling, notification overriding and delta-cycle. We have explored the denotational semantics [15] for SystemC using Unifying Theories of Programming (abbreviated as UTP) [6], where algebraic laws can be achieved based on the ...

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'Semantic Interoperability' is a driving objective behind many of Health Level Seven's standards. The objective in this paper is to take a step back, and consider what semantic interoperability means, assess whether or not it has been achieved, and, if not, determine what concrete next steps can be taken to get closer. A framework for ...

To enable document data and knowledge to be efficiently shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries, desktop documents should be completely open and queryable resources, whose data and knowledge are represented in a form understandable to both humans and machines. At the same time, these are the requirements that desktop documents need to satisfy in order to ...

Ontology is the basis of sharing and reusing knowledge on the Semantic Web, and ontology-based semantic retrieval is a hotspot of current research. Fuzzy ontology is an extension of domain ontology for solving the uncertainty problems. To represent fuzzy knowledge more effectively, this paper presents a new series of fuzzy ontology models that consists of ...

Abstract. A service choreography is a model of the interactions in which a set of services engage to achieve a goal, seen from the perspective of an ideal observer that records all messages exchanged between these services. Choreographies have been put forward as a starting point for building service-oriented systems since they provide a global picture of the system�s ...

Singapore is in the process of rolling out a number of national e-health initiatives, including the National Electronic Health Record (NEHR). A critical enabler in the journey towards semantic interoperability is a Logical Information Model (LIM) that harmonises the semantics of the information structure with the terminology. The Singapore LIM uses a ...

... semantic Web services. Keywords: semantic Web services, semantic service oriented architecture, Semantic Annotations ...

Business Intelligence (BI) requires the acquisition and aggregation of key pieces of knowledge from multiple sources in order to provide valuable information to customers or feed statistical BI models and tools. The massive amount of information available to business analysts makes information extraction and other natural language processing tools key enablers for the acquisition and use of that ...

Semantic similarity measure plays an essential role in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. In this paper we propose a page-count-based semantic similarity measure and apply it in biomedical domains. Previous researches in semantic web related applications have deployed various semantic similarity ...

Image retrieval is the hot point of researchers in many domains. Traditional text-based query methods use caption and keywords to annotate and retrieval image database, which often consumes a mass of human labor. Content based image retrieval methods use low-level features such as color, shape and texture to search images, which can't provide retrieval on semantic level for ...

This study investigates ESL learners' semantic awareness of English words by attempting to estimate a threshold beyond which ESL learners can be said to have reached native-like semantic knowledge. The "Vocabulary Levels Test," originally designed by Nation (1990) and later revised and expanded by Schmitt (2000), was used to operationalise this threshold. ...

Recent developments of e-learning specifications such as Learning Object Metadata (LOM), Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), Learning Design and other pedagogy research in semantic e-learning have shown a trend of applying innovative computational techniques, especially Semantic Web technologies, to promote existing content-focused learning ...

transitions in case a statement of the form achieve(p) is the first "action" of the plan. Both transitions the plan. Definition 6 (subgoal achievement) |= p , achieve(p); , The next transition rule specifies the transition for an achieve(p) statement in case p is not achieved. In this case, a ...

Semantic search promises to provide more accurate result than present-day keyword search. However, progress with semantic search has been delayed due to the complexity of its query languages. In this paper, we explore a novel approach of adapting keywords to querying the semantic web: the approach automatically translates keyword ...

Personalized adaptive learning requires semantic-based and context-aware systems to manage the Web knowledge efficiently as well as to achieve semantic interoperability between heterogeneous information resources and services. The technological and conceptual differences can be bridged either by means of standards or via approaches ...

We present the first direct formalization of the semantics of inclusive gateways as described in the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 Beta 1 specification. The formal semantics is given for a minimal subset of BPMN 2.0 containing just the inclusive and exclusive gateways and the start and stop events. By focusing on this subset we ...

semantic annotations, ontologies. Most of the efforts concerning graphical representations of humans (Virtual Humans) have been focused on synthesizing geometry for static or animated shapes. The next step is to consider a human body not only as a 3D shape, but as an active semantic entity with features, functionalities, interaction skills, etc. The ...

Matching clinical data to codes in controlled terminologies is the first step towards achieving standardisation of data for safe and accurate data interoperability. The MoST automated system was used to generate a list of candidate SNOMED CT code mappings. The paper discusses the semantic issues which arose when generating lexical and ...

This case study briefly explores how an online, multimedia learning module based on a Cognitive Apprenticeship higher level pedagogy can positively affect students achieving the learning outcomes of a Constructivist project-based curriculum in a blended e-business management program in the Middle East. The cohort in this program is nonnative speakers of ...

This paper presents the results achieved in terms of e-business capabilities developed in an International Master framed within an Euro-Medi-terranean cooperation. In particular, an e-Business Design Laboratory is here described which has been set up for designing and implementing innovative solutions to bring digital and organizational innovation in traditional and new ...

Concurrency control techniques adopted in next generation information banks should be able to handle high level operations on arbitrary objects with complex structure. Unfortunately, current approaches to concurrency control are highly inefficient for these types of objects. This dissertation provides new techniques for high performance semantics-based concurrency control ...

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This article will discuss issues of interoperability of Web Services. Semantic Web technologies, when applied to current Web Service architectures, will enable true automation and interoperation, and will �futureproof� systems unlike a priori standardization approaches. We will extend the Semantic Web approach to Web Services to Ubiquitous Computing: ...

The Virtual Observatory (VO) will be one of the first applications belonging to a new generation of network services which are commonly referred to as the Semantic Web. As the name indicates the Semantic Web is supposed to represent its contents and usage in a systematic and decentralized way. In order to achieve this goal a number of ...

Much of commonsense knowledge about the real world is in the form of procedures or sequences of actions for achieving particular goals. In this paper, a formalism is presented for representing such knowledge using the notion of process. A declarative semantics for the representation is given, which allows a user to state facts about the effects of doing ...

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The paper addresses the problem of annotating photographs with broad semantic labels. To cope with the great variety of photos available on the WEB we have designed a hierarchical classification strategy which first classifies images as pornographic or not-pornographic. Not-pornographic images are then classified as indoor, outdoor, or close-up. On a database of over 9000 ...

flow through new combinations of inference units and still produce valid world interpretations. While that inference units are not composed in ways that produce invalid world interpre- tations, each inference unit detection unit). Thus, the user does not need to manually specify an inference graph in order to achieve

The Semantic Web can bring more meaning and structure to the Web, but it also has the potential to profoundly affect how personal information is collected and used. We point out that achieving privacy requires trust and security as well a standard method of exchanging privacy policies. We suggest that privacy be built into the Semantic ...

: This paper introduces "Wilbur", an RDF and DAML toolkit implemented in Common Lisp. Wilbur exposes the RDF data model as a frame-based representation system; an object-oriented view of frames is adopted, and RDF data is integrated with the host language by addressing issues of input/output, data structure compatibility, and error signaling. Through seamless integration we have ...

code elimination. In the following, we call Wegman and Zadeck's original SSA-based algorithm Scc ssa semantics, as opposed to the informal notation used by Wegman and Zadeck. We believe that the semantic the same analysis. In fact, this would be hard to achieve due to Wegman and Zadeck's [22] rather informal

to facilitate semantics extraction in sports video, which cannot be sufficiently achieved by visual analysisAudio Keyword Generation for Sports Video Analysis Min Xu 1 , Ling-Yu Duan 2 , Liang-Tien Chia 1 Email: {lingyu, xucs}@i2r.a-star.edu.sg ABSTRACT Semantic sports video analysis has attracted many

To cope with today's fluctuating markets, a virtual enterprise (VE) concept can be employed to achieve the cooperation among independently operating enterprises. The success of VE depends on reliable interoperation among trading partners. This paper proposes a framework based on semantic web of manufacturing and simulation services to enable ...

We propose a document categorization method based on a document model that can be defined externally for each task and that categorizes Web content or business documents into a target category in accordance with the similarity of the model. The main feature of the proposed method consists of two aspects of semantics extraction from an input document. The ...

A critical issue in healthcare informatics is to facilitate the integration and interoperability of applications. This goal can be achieved through an open architecture based on a middleware independent from specific applications; useful for working with existing systems, as well as for the integration of new systems. Several standard organizations are making efforts toward ...

In this paper, we propose a Blackboard Architecture as a means for coordinating hybrid reasoning over the Semantic Web. We describe the components of traditional blackboard systems (Knowledge Sources, Blackboard, Controller) and then explain how we have enhanced these by incorporating some of the principles of the Semantic Web to pro- duce our ...

Recent advances in machine learning theory have opened the door for applications to many difficult problem domains. One area that has achieved great success for stock market analysis/prediction is artificial neural networks. However, knowledge embedded in...

This paper reports on some recent developments in natural language analysis. We address such issues as the role of syntax in a semantics-oriented analyzer, achieving a flexible balance of top-down and bottom-up processing, and the role of short term memor...

... A. S. Griffin, and A. Gardner. 2006a. Social semantics: Altruism, cooperation, mutualism, strong reciprocity and group selection. ... theoryAcknowledgmentsReferences cited FiguresFigure 1. Related Article...

The formal HAL/S language specification is documented with particular referral to the essentials of HAL/S syntax and semantics. The language is intended to satisfy virtually all of the flight software requirements of NASA programs. To achieve this, HAL/S ...

This report describes Paul, a computer text generation system designed to create cohesive text. The device used to achieve this cohesion is lexical substitution. Through the use of syntactic and semantic information, the system is able to determine which ...

Recent military operations have redefined the way modern warfare is waged. In a deliberate effort to achieve and retain information dominance and decision superiority, many innovative technologies have emerged to assist the human war fighter. Unquestionab...

We propose an approach to achieve appropriate exchange of services and data in distributed systems subject to semantic heterogeneity. We assume differentiated ontologies: that terms have formal definitions as concepts related to other concepts, that local...

Interactive direct visualization of three dimensional data requires fast update rates and the ability to extract regions of interest from the surrounding data. We have implemented Multi-Valued Classification volume renderers on a general purpose multiproc...

- uled to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. When the required knowledge is a resource available- cies human resources are endowed with. Any organization aiming at sustainable competitive advantage

The evaluative character of a word is called its semantic orientation. A positive semantic orientation implies desirability (e.g., "honest", "intrepid") and a negative semantic orientation implies undesirability (e.g., "disturbing", "superfluous"). This paper introduces a simple algorithm for unsupervised learning of ...

Two experiments explored learning, generalization, and the influence of semantics on orthographic processing in an artificial language. In Experiment 1, 16 adults learned to read 36 novel words written in novel characters. Posttraining, participants discriminated trained from untrained items and generalized to novel items, demonstrating extraction of individual character ...

The goal of this effort is to design and implement a configurable and extensible semantic eScience framework (SESF). Configuration requires research into accommodating different levels of semantic expressivity and user requirements from use cases. Extensibility is being achieved in a modular approach to the ...

The goal of this effort is to design and implement a configurable and extensible semantic eScience framework (SESF). Configuration requires research into accommodating different levels of semantic expressivity and user requirements from use cases. Extensibility is being achieved in a modular approach to the ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the instructional effectiveness of adjunct post-questions, metacognitive process prompts, cognitive feedback and training in complementing semantic maps. Two hundred seventy Taiwanese subjects were randomly assigned to eight treatments. After interacting with their respective treatments each completed three criterion tests designed to ...

Measured and simulated data is usually divided into several meaningful intervals that are relevant to the domain expert. Examples from medicine are the specific semantics for different measuring modalities. A PET scan of a brain measures brain activity. It shows regions of homogeneous activity that are labeled by experts with semantic values such as low ...