Adaptability is a key characteristic of intelligence. My research explores techniques for enabling software agents to adapt themselves as their functional requirements change incrementally. In the domain of manufacturing, for example, a software agent designed to assemble physical artifacts may be given a new goal of disassembling artifacts. As another example, in the internet domain, a softwar...

Despite the importance and pervasiveness of Wikipedia as one largest platforms for open knowledge, surprisingly little is known about how people navigate its content when seeking information. To bridge this gap, we present first systematic large-scale analysis readers browse Wikipedia. Using billions page requests from Wikipedia’s server logs, measure reach articles, they transition between the...

AmiGO is a web application that allows users to query, browse and visualize ontologies and related gene product annotation (association) data. AmiGO can be used online at the Gene Ontology (GO) website to access the data provided by the GO Consortium; it can also be downloaded and installed to browse local ontologies and annotations. AmiGO is free open source software developed and maintained b...

We present three approaches to generate titles for browse pages in five different languages, namely English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. These browse pages are structured search pages in an e-commerce domain. We first present a rule-based approach to generate these browse page titles. In addition, we also present a hybrid approach which uses a phrase-based statistical machine translati...

There is a fair amount of evidence that suggests that Internet access from wirelessly-connected mobile handheld devices is gaining popularity. However, there haven’t been too many studies that have focused solely on analyzing the wireless Internet. In this paper, we study the notification and browse services provided by a large commercial web site designed specifically for users who access it v...

Rangelands in South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini contain a rich diversity of valuable fodder trees shrubs. This research is the first attempt to document regional distribution these browse resources. Scientific publications, textbooks, databases, published reports were accessed compile database plant species that recorded as utilised by ruminants non-ruminants. Relevant forage attributes, such...

Several protein sources were tested as deer repellents with captive deer. Black-tailed deer were offered Western redcedar seedlings treated with corn gluten meal, feather meal, poultry blood, hydrolyzed casein, or a control (latex sticker used for treatment proteins). After 37 days, feather meal and hydrolyzed casein provided equivalent protection against browse damage (only 23% of seedlings si...

BACKGROUND Traditional ecological knowledge among indigenous communities plays an important role in retaining cultural identity and achieving sustainable natural resource management. Hundreds of millions of people mostly in developing countries derive a substantial part of their subsistence and income from plant resources. The aim of this study was to assess useful plant species diversity, plan...

The Research was carried out to assess the browse intake and nutrient digestibility of grazing West African Dwarf (WAD) goats fed varying levels of Gmelina arborea leaves as supplement. Which produces appreciable amount of forage even at the peak of the dry season in the tropics, thereby ensuring all year round supply of follage and fodder. Thirty growing West Africa Dwarf (WAD) goats were used...