"Based on the Conventional Figurative Language Theory (Dobrovol’skij and Piirainen 2005a), this paper aims to analyse, from a linguo-cultural perspective, symbolism of jade in Chinese culture language, focusing its phraseological units metaphors. For purpose, first all, we briefly explore history China, as well ideograms uses throughout history. Then, I focus analysing cultural connotations uni...

Agent oriented programming is often claimed to become the next breakthrough in development and implementation of large-scale complex software systems. At the same time it is rather difficult to find successful applications of agent technology, in particular when large-scale systems are considered. The aim of this paper is to investigate if one of the possible limits could be the scalability of ...

This paper introduces computer vision systems (CVSs), which provides a new method to measure gem colour, and compares CVS colourimeter (CM) measurements of jadeite-jade colour in the CIELAB space. The feasibility using for measurement was verified by an expert group test reasonable regression model experiment involving 111 samples covering almost all colours. In test, more than 93.33% images ar...