The quality of decision-making process is affected by the quality of information used in the process. Trends in data processing for decision support show that business users need analytical applications which incorporate a variety of data analysis techniques incorporating task-specific knowledge, i.e. that are business task-oriented. Such business analytics applications must be vertically conne...

The paper gives an overview on the DSPL programming environment, an integrated approach to automate system design and implementation of applications run on dedicated parallel systems. The programming environment consists of a data-ow language and an integrated set of tools. The tools automatically derive a software model from the given application program, compute the design decisions as the ne...

The active vision and attention-for-action frameworks propose that in organisms attention and perception are closely integrated with action and learning. This work proposes a novel bio-inspired integrated neural-network architecture that on one side uses attention to guide and furnish the parameters to action, and on the other side uses the effects of action to train the task-oriented top-down ...

In this paper we explore a principled, integrated approach to the process of creating complex planning applications and introduce and evaluate a new hybrid task-reduction planner called HyHTN. In the short term our work is leading to an experimental research platform for investigating the synergy of integrated tools. The approach is centred around the use of a GUI called GIPO-II (based on the p...

One of the challenges in designing systems is adopting a design method with compositional properties. Compositional functionality guarantees that two components that each perform a task can be integrated without a ecting the semantics of either task. Compositional performance means that two components can be integrated so that the timing of neither components changes. In this paper we describe ...

Recent evidence for separate forms of attention for different visual attributes seems to conflict with Duncan's "integrated competition" theory of visual attention. To resolve this conflict, we established attention-operating characteristics for four pairs of visual discriminations. While one task was common to every pair, the other tasks were different and concerned different visual attributes...

We apply the integrated syntactic graph feature extraction methodology to the task of automatic authorship detection. This graph-based representation allows integrating different levels of language description into a single structure. We extract textual patterns based on features obtained from shortest path walks over integrated syntactic graphs and apply them to determine the authors of docume...

this study explored the effect of contrastive phrase resynthesis instruction ongaining the teachability hypothesis stages in self-paced versus time-constrained oralproduction and recognition. three groups (i.e., 23 learners) of high beginner femalelearners in an english language institute were randomly selected from a cohort oflearners. one group received contrastive metalinguistic instruction ...

Among the most innovative features of the TOEFL® Internet-based test (TOEFL iBT) are the addition of a speaking measure and a revised writing measure consisting of two writing tasks. The speaking and writing measures include both independent and integrated tasks. Independent tasks require test takers to talk or write about their personal opinions or experiences. Integrated tasks require the use...