Aiming at representing and reasoning about multidisciplinary design knowledge explicitly and exchanging it in different design environments, this paper proposes an ontology-based collaborative reasoning strategy for multidisciplinary design in the Semantic Grid. An ontology-based modeling framework is used as the basis, which adopts Web Ontology Language (OWL) to build a domain-specific multidi...

1. Introduction The dominant strategy currently employed in machine translation (MT) is transfer: 1 Under this strategy, the MT system derives an abstract representation of the source language text; this representation is then transferred into a corresponding abstract representation formed in terms of the target language, which is subsequently realised in the target language proper. At each sta...

the principle theoretical basis of this article is the concept of 'city text' and the textuality standards. the article explores city as a text and takes the textuality standards into consideration for analyzing the city. text is one of the main elements that play a significant role in communication. people communicating by language do not do so simply by means of individual words or ...

In this paper, we propose a refined scene text detector with a novel Feature Enhancement Network (FEN) for Region Proposal and Text Detection Refinement. Retrospectively, both region proposal with only 3 × 3 sliding-window feature and text detection refinement with single scale high level feature are insufficient, especially for smaller scene text. Therefore, we design a new FEN network with ta...

Web information is too heterogeneous that users have difficulties to retrieve their needed information: text, image orvideo. In this context, the collaborative work presents one solution proposed to solve this problem. Collaborative retrieval enables the retrieval histories’ sharing between users having the same profile across multiple tools such as annotations. We propose in this paper to impr...

We present a novel algorithm, called dARB, for solving the concurrency control problem in completely distributed collaborative applications. The main advantages of our approach are the simplicity of use and good responsiveness, as there are no lock mechanisms. The algorithm is application independent, which it makes it suitable for general collaborative applications. The only constraint is that...

This thesis builds on theory from the fields of computer supported cooperative work and computer supported collaborative writing and the example of work in the free and open source software development communities to describe “cooperation in parallel” — a mode of collaborative writing among parties with diverged goals and distinct documents. It examines the social and technological requirements...

Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) are widely used for effective collaboration among users. A CWE includes various tools and methodologies to support analysis of coordinating activities. Users within a CWE widely utilize textual means of collaboration and communication. An effective analysis of this textual collaboration can help in improving overall quality of collaborating activities an...