Semantic User Interfaces (SUIs), are sets of interrelated, static, domain specific documents having layout and content, whose interpretation is defined through semantic decoration. SUIs are declarative in nature. They allow program composition by the user herself at the user interface level. The operation of SUI based applications follow a service oriented approach. SUI elements referenced in u...

Although it is well established that remembering an item will bring to mind memories of other semantically related items (Bousfield, 1953), the neural basis of this phenomenon is poorly understood. We studied how the similarity relations among items influence their retrieval by analyzing electrocorticographic recordings taken as 46 human neurosurgical patients studied and freely recalled lists ...

Behavioral research has demonstrated three major components of the lexical-semantic processing system: automatic activation of semantic representations, strategic retrieval of semantic representations, and inhibition of competitors. However, these component processes are inherently conflated in explicit lexical-semantic decision tasks typically used in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMR...

This paper presents a semantic search engine for Software Components that focus on the discovery of components that fulfill a defined set of QoS constraints. Our approach relies on the use of the QoS-MO ontology, which provides means for specifying the QoS characteristics of Software Components or Semantic Web Services, and the SPARQL language, which allows the specification of queries for disc...

Composability is the capability to select and assemble simulation components in various combinations into simulation systems. The defining characteristic of composability is the ability to combine and recombine components. Composability exists in two forms, syntactic and semantic (also known as engineering and modeling). Syntactic composability is the implementation of components so that they c...

The coming of the semantic web and, in particular, the coming of the semantic web services (SWS) technology demands the inclusion of new components in the applications involving semantic web services. So, web development methodologies must be tailored to support the systematic development of such new components. In previous works we have presented an UML profile, which extends the SOD-M method ...

Semantic memory refers to our long-term knowledge of word and object meaning. There is increasing evidence that rather than being a passive warehouse of knowledge, semantic memory is a dynamic system whose effectiveness relies on the coordination of multiple components distributed across a large network of cortical regions. Damage to one or more of these components produces distinct profiles of...

CSPs are widely used in industry, although have yet to operate across organizational boundaries. Reuse across organizations is restricted by the same semantic issues that restrict the inter-organization use of web services. The current representations of web components are predominantly syntactic in nature lacking the fundamental semantic underpinning required to support discovery on the emergi...

Scientific workflow systems are problem-solving environments that allow scientists to automate and reproduce data management and analysis tasks. Workflow components include actors (e.g., queries, transformations, analyses, simulations, visualizations), and datasets which are produced and consumed by actors. The increasing number of such components creates the problem of discovering suitable com...

In this paper we describe the definition of semantics for a Multi-Language interpreter (MLI), which provides the execution of the given program, receiving and exploiting corresponding language syntax and the desired semantics. We analyze the simplest solution – the MLI receives the language syntax and the semantics descriptions, which have already been compiled to executable objects. Semantics ...