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COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata

Wikidata as a collaborative Semantic Web data source has enjoyed increasing prominence, storing over 150 million facts about more than 26 million entities. Yet it is missing a way to assess its completeness. In this demo we present COOL-WD, a tool for supporting the completeness lifecycle of Wikidata, that is, the creation, view, update, and consumption of metadata about Wikidata completeness. ...

ITC is Cool

ITC IS COOL. How can this be, you ask? This is the International Test Conference’s 36th year, which makes it a middle-aged conference; and, as anyone who has ever been middle-aged knows, being cool at this time of life is a serious challenge. Combovers, designer sunglasses, wheel spinners, and Good Charlotte CDs aren’t really options for a conference, so how can ITC be cool? A simple answer is ...

Constructing the Cool Wall: A Tool to Explore Teen Meanings of Cool

This paper describes the development and exploration of a tool designed to assist in investigating ‘cool’ as it applies to the design of interactive products for teenagers. The method involved the derivation of theoretical understandings of cool from literature that resulted in identification of seven core categories for cool, which were mapped to a hierarchy. The hierarchy includes having of c...

Neural Networks in Soil Science: A Tool or Just Cool?

Hpeak: a Cool Tool for Analyzing Heat Pumps

HPEAK: A COOL TOOL FOR ANALYZING HEAT PUMPS Heat pumps are getting smarter. Some of the newest models not only heat and cool your home but provide hot water as well. But how do these advanced systems affect energy consumption and are they cost effective? To get some answers, NIST researchers developed a computer program to evaluate the performance and economics of conventional and advanced heat...