Free improvisations are unprecedented and underdetermined: their content and the way they unfold are not known in advance. Improvised performances have to be actively shaped over time. To do so, the improviser must articulate his embodied experience. In other words, he has to make sense of his experience1 by relying on his bodily know-how. And so this process of improvisation personally involve...

This paper presents a research project of University of Pavia that has been implemented by Business Integration Partners (BIP). The project concerns a Knowledge Base on Business and IT Processes. The Knowledge Base maps Business and related IT Processes and stores knowledge structures in different forms, such as diagrams, text, multimedia. The analyst can navigate stored information and create ...

Traditional parallel programming forces the programmer, apart from designing the application, to analyse the performance of this recently built application. This dljjjcult task of testing the behaviour of the program can be avoided with the use of an automatic performance analysis tool. Users are released from having to understand the enormous amount of performance information obtainedfrom the ...

We investigate different approaches based on correlation analysis to reduce the complexity of a space of quantitative indicators for the assessment of research performance. The proposed methods group bibliometric indicators into clusters of highly inter-correlated indicators. Each cluster is then associated with a representative indicator. The set of all representatives corresponds to a base of...

We consider the problem of embedding entities and relations of knowledge bases into low-dimensional continuous vector spaces (distributed representations). Unlike most existing approaches, which are primarily efficient for modelling pairwise relations between entities, we attempt to explicitly model both pairwise relations and long-range interactions between entities, by interpreting them as li...

INTRODUCTION "Research" in design has a long but not very robust history. Individuals have published on the subject almost from the time design was recognized as something to be taught (engineering and architectural design theories have been in the literature since Roman times). Yet, despite exceptional efforts by some individuals, the degree of interest in research among the design disciplines...

Over the last few years, RNA-seq has been used to study alterations in alternative splicing related to several diseases. Bioinformatics workflows used to perform these studies can be divided into two groups, those finding changes in the absolute isoform expression and those studying differential splicing. Many computational methods for transcriptomics analysis have been developed, evaluated and...

in this paper it is attempted to predict the off-design performance of a jet engine. after a review of the governing equations, the off-design performance is investigated by two methods. in the first method, the component characteristic curves of the gas turbines are used. in the second method some design point parameters and the reference state conditions are employed. the results obtained by ...

The fundamental knowledge container in case-based reasoning is the case base of prior experiences. An important focus of recent CBR research is on maintenance strategies for achieving compact, competent case bases, as a way to improve the performance of CBR systems. However, the actual tradeoos between competence, compactness, and performance may be complex. Consequently, this paper argues for ...