Assemblage and actor-network theories explain how markets consumption are constituted by heterogeneous resources that form part-whole relations at various scales. Marketing consumer research studies use these theories, however, often retain human-centred scales units of analysis, such objects forces exist unfamiliar (time)scales overlooked. This paper explains Object-Oriented Ontology can help ...

Behavior of geographic objects holds a critical role in spatial databases. This, along with objects’ position and space-varying attributes, form a minimal set of concepts sufficient to capture spatial peculiarities in terms of the object-oriented rational. We present the semantics and the graphical notation of a prototypical object-oriented model for the conceptual design of spatial databases: ...

Focusing on software productivity and software quality control has spurred the research on software metrics technology. The increasing importance being placed on object-oriented software development has led to the research on the object-oriented software metrics and the development of automated tools to support object-oriented metrics. To effectively aid the software evaluation, a software metr...

When interpreted as a model for structuring programs and organizing computations, the object-oriented paradigm can be thought as a set of abstractions independent of the host language. By generalizing the notion of object state configuration with respect to that embedded in languages based on assignment, this paper explores a relational approach to object-oriented programming. An object-oriente...

This paper presents a novel approach to automatic captioning of toponym-referenced images. The automatic captioning procedure works by summarizing multiple web-documents that contain information related to an image’s location. Our summarizer can generate both query-based and language model-biased multidocument summaries. The models are created from large numbers of existing articles pertaining ...

an important issue in implementation of a gis system is preparation of data to be entered in gis. to produce spatial data for gis using photogrammetric techniques, conventional method is to apply photogrammetric and gis systems individually (off-line procedure). this approach is costly, time consuming and somehow unreliable due to the fact that 3d photogrammetric model is not available at the t...

In this paper we present object oriented simulation model structure editor which greatly enhances the capabilities of our object-oriented discrete event distributed simulation toolset YeAST. We present a model structure description language used in YeAST, the editor of this structure, mechanisms for model structure management taking advantage of an object-oriented approach used in the simulatio...

ions such as inheritance are more naturally represented by graphs than as sets (Levene and Poulovassilis, 1991 [33]; Poulovassilis and Levene, 1994 [34]). (4) Data modellings in object-relational DBMSs still have weaknesses in semantic supports. For example, because the functional data model is the “lowest common denominator” of data models (refer to Section 2.2.3.1), there is lack of semantic ...