The authors have carried out verification of 590 12–24-h high-temperature forecasts from numerical guidance products and human forecasters for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, using both a measures-oriented verification scheme and a distributions-oriented scheme. The latter captures the richness associated with the relationship of forecasts and observations, providing insight into strengths and weaknes...

Addressing the task of acquiring semantic relations between events from a large corpus, we first argue the complementarity between the pattern-based relation-oriented approach and the anchor-based argumentoriented approach. We then propose a twophased approach, which first uses lexicosyntactic patterns to acquire predicate pairs and then uses two types of anchors to identify shared arguments. T...

This paper combines two different approaches to modeling reaction time data from lexical decision experiments, viz. a dataoriented statistical analysis by means of a linear mixed effects model, and a process-oriented computational model of human speech comprehension. The linear mixed effect model is implemented by lmer in R. As computational model we apply DIANA, an end-to-end computational mod...

The paper deals with some important aspects of continuous systems modelling education. Namely the traditional approach is based on block oriented schemes in which causal relations play an important role. However this causality is artificially generated in order to fulfil appropriate conditions for simulation on conventional sequential computers. Fortunately new concepts which are based on objec...

If you take a closer look at current service-oriented architectures and their standards like Web-ser­ vices and compare them to other distributed computing approaches, then you will come to the fol­ lowing conclusion: Technically SOC does not provide any new possibilities or solutions which were not already available or implementable with the old approaches. It would be for example not a proble...

Due to the wide use of object-oriented technology in software development, reverse engineering of relational schemas to object-oriented schemas is gaining a lot of interest. One of the major problems with existing approaches for this schema mapping is the extensive amount of information that must be gathered either automatically or from the user. This paper presents an object-centered approach ...

 Founding information: This work is partially sponsored by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China (M603245, Y106469), and National high tech research and development plan (863plan):2007AA01Z105-05 Abstract—Using software agents as next generation flexible components and applying reuse technologies to rapidly construct agents and agent systems have great promise to improve a...

There is an increasing interest both in the Object-Oriented and the Petri net community for an integration of the concepts of the two approaches. Although the proposals for « objects and Petri nets » are numerous and widely different, there seems to be two major trends « Objects inside Petri net » versus « Petri net inside Objects ». We state here the basic paradigm of these two trends, and bri...

With the sophistication and maturity of distributed component-based services and semantic web services, the idea of specification-driven service composition is becoming a reality. With relevance to this work is the workflow composition of services as they span multiple, distributed web-accessible locations. Given the dynamic nature of this domain, the autonomy and adaptation of software agents ...