The national level of Intellectual Property Law covers national legislation and policy as well as common law, while at the international level it covers international treaties and conventions to which Botswana is a signatory. The Mission of the University of Botswana is to advance the intellectual and human resource capacity of the nation and the international community. In this regard, the goa...

The quality of case data can be an important factor for a Case Based Reasoning (CBR) system. In our research, we are facing a diagnostic problem in a product maintenance domain, where a large volume of low quality case data is collected. In this paper, we report an experimental study of whether using domain knowledge can improve the performance of either non-diversified or diversified retrieval...

We propose a spatial-temporal indexing method for moving objects based on a prediction technique using motion patterns extracted from practical data, such as trajectories of pedestrians. To build an efficient index structure, we conducted an experiment to analyze practical moving objects, such as people walking in a hall. As a result, we found that any moving objects can be classified into just...

Field normalized citation rates are well-established indicators for research performance from the broadest aggregation levels such as countries, down to institutes and research teams. When applied to still more specialized publication sets at the level of individual scientists, also a more accurate delimitation is required of the reference domain that provides the expectations to which a perfor...

In modern societies where fighting crime has a long history, establishing effective methods for crime prevention is of high significance. For this purpose, police departments worldwide undertake efforts to analyze past crime data. They aim to detect the most prolific crime areas and predict their development, in order to direct their prevention efforts. In parallel, scholars investigate possibi...

With the developments ofWeb2.0, the process for the data on Internet becomes necessary. This Paper reports our work for Chinese weibo segmentation in the 2012 CIPS-SIGHAN bakeoff. In order to improve the recognition accuracy of out-ofvocabulary words, we propose a cascaded model which first segments and disambiguates in-vocabulary words, then recovers out-of-vocabulary words from the fragments....

Data model, planning restrictions, and objectives related to manufacturing planning and control (MPC) strongly depend on the given production process and workshop. In our opinion, these individual properties are the reason, why standard software fails to properly support decisions in MPC. In this paper, we introduce a platform, which enables a configuration process to create affordable individu...

Agent-based models informed by empirical data are growing in popularity. Many models make extensive use of collected data for the development, initialisation or validation. In parallel, models are growing in size and complexity, generating large amounts of output data. On the other hand, Data Mining is used to extract hidden patterns from large collections of data using different techniques. Th...

Diagrams appear to be a convenient vehicle for teaching argumentation skills in ill-defined domains, but can an ITS provide useful feedback on students’ argument diagrams without assuming a well-defined procedure for objectively evaluating argument? LARGO is an ITS for legal argumentation that supports students as they diagram transcripts of US Supreme Court oral argument. It provides on-demand...

In a modern globalised world, military and peace keeping forces often face situations which require very subtle and well planned operations taking into account cultural and social aspects of a given region and its population as well as dynamic psychological awareness related to recent events which can have impact on the attitude of the civilians. The goal of the EUSAS project is to develop a pr...