The Astin Dismissal; A Tower of Babel in Science

Demolishing the tower of babel.

Rebuilding the Tower of Babel

Anti-virus systems developed by different vendors often demonstrate strong discrepancies in how they name malware, which signficantly hinders malware information sharing. While existing work has proposed a plethora of malware naming standards, most antivirus vendors were reluctant to change their own naming conventions. In this paper we explore a new, more pragmatic alternative. We propose to e...

Transcending the Tower of Babel:

With the advent of location-independent access to massive collections of searchable content on the World Wide Web and the convergence of text, images, audio and video in multimedia computing environments, we have come a long way towards seamless access to the information needed for commerce, security, and society. Language, however, has the potential to balkanize the information space. This cha...

Workflow Verification: a New Tower of Babel

In this paper, we show the relevance of workflow model checking and discuss the problems that arise when doing research about workflows. Then, different facts that may cause these problems are proposed. Past research in the field is summarized, and the conclusion sketches some future lines of research based in the previous analysis.

Patellar nomenclature: the Tower of Babel revisited.

Because we communicate mainly through words, it is important that terms be understood in the same manner by all readers. Unfortunately, the study of the patellofemoral joint is complicated by the use of expressions that hold different meanings for different readers. Ideally, the community of musculoskeletal physicians should agree on a single definition of terms, but until then, authors and spe...