The use of highly abstract mathematical frameworks is essential for building the sort of theoretical foundation for semantic integration needed to bring it to the level of a genuine engineering discipline. At the same time, much of the work that has been done by means of these frameworks assumes a certain amount of background knowledge in mathematics that a lot of people working in ontology, ev...

Software testing is a difficult task for web based applications due to their special features like multi-tier structure and emergence of new technologies (e.g. Ajax). In recent years, automatic testing of web based applications has been emerged as a promising technique to tackle the difficulties of testing these types of applications and several frameworks have been proposed for this purpose. B...

Current trends in software development are increasingly reasoning about software applications in terms of multi-agent systems (MAS). However, the development of multi-agent applications is still a technically difficult task. One of the main barriers is the lack of comprehensive design practices to move systematically from problem analysis and agent models to effective implementations. This work...

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is an emerging topic in the world of business and information technology. However to date there is a lack of research on an integrated approach to GRC has hardly been researched. In this paper we construct an integrated process model for high-level IT GRC management. First, we discuss existing process models for integrated GRC. Then we set the scope of our...

More and more disciplines require NLP tools for performing automatic text analyses on various levels of linguistic resolution. However, the usage of established NLP frameworks is often hampered for several reasons: in most cases, they require basic to sophisticated programming skills, interfere with interoperability due to using non-standard I/O-formats and often lack tools for visualizing comp...

This  article  provides  an  overview  on  preparation,  design,  crystal structure  and  properties  of  some  metal-organic  frameworks  of carboxylate coordination polymers mixed with pyridine-functionality linkers  prepared  in  our  laboratory.  The  article  covers  coordination polymers  in  two-  and  three-dimensional  supramolecular architectures. The reported coordination polyme...

We introduce a parametrized equivalence notion for abstract argumentation that subsumes standard and strong equivalence as corner cases. Under this notion, two argumentation frameworks are equivalent if they deliver the same extensions under any addition of arguments and attacks that do not affect a given set of core arguments. As we will see, this notion of equivalence nicely captures the conc...

The concept of risk aversion was introduced by Pratt in 1964 for expected utility framework, and has attracted much attention as an important quantitative characteristic of individual attitude to risk. The current paper extends the concept to other decision-making frameworks, and presents exact quantitative results for distorted probability functional. Applications of the concept to portfolio a...

Accurately detection of retinal landmarks, like optic disc, is an important step in the computer aided diagnosis frameworks. This paper presents an efficient method for automatic detection of the optic disc’s center and estimating its boundary. The center and initial diameter of optic disc are estimated by employing an ANN classifier. The ANN classifier employs visual features of vessels and th...

The design options of sensing-communication coexistence (SCC) vs. integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) relying on non-orthogonal downlink transmission (NO-DLT) transmit antenna selection are investigated. To be practical, both realistic residual hardware impairments (RHI) imperfect successive interference cancellation considered. performance the SCC ISAC NO-DLT frameworks is characteriz...