Discovering appropriate information from a huge and complex information base is a non-trivial task. In order to make a database a good description of the world it is intended to model, meaning of data in the application environment should be captured more precisely and formally. Researchers are turning to biological systems to learn from them. `How the brain works' is still an open question and...

Speech technologies nowadays available on mobile devices show an increased performance both in terms of the language that they are able to capture and in terms of reliability. The availability of performant speech recognition engines suggests the deployment of vocal interfaces also in consumer robots. In this paper, we report on our current work, by specifically focussing on the difficulties th...

course books do not only educate students but also prepare them to take responsibilities proportional to their gender as planned by the author. this research is trying to examine the way that gender is represented in farsi books of middle school and the first three grades of high school in non-human science fields in the academic year 2009-10. research method was through analyzing the quantity ...

We consider two popular, permutation-based, step-down procedures of p-values adjustment in multiple testing problems known as min P and max T and intended for strong control of the family-wise error rate, under the so-called subset pivotality property (SPP). We examine key but subtle issues involved in ascertaining validity of these methods, and also introduce a new, slightly narrower notion of...

We present a unifying approach to multiple testing procedures for sequential (or streaming) data by giving sufficient conditions for a sequential multiple testing procedure to control the familywise error rate (FWER). Together we call these conditions a "rejection principle for sequential tests," which we then apply to some existing sequential multiple testing procedures to give simplified unde...

The Knowledgeable Community is a framework of knowledge sharing and reuse based on a multi-agent architecture. In this paper, we describe the scope and goal of the Knowledgeable Community project, present the organizational structure that facilitates mediation between those agents requesting for a service and those providing the service, and illustrate a technique of ontology-based mediation by...

The Semantics-Knowledgeable Interface (Ski) is designed to provide a powerful but usable interface to databases. To do this, it combines the expressiveness of semantic models, the broad communications “bandwidth” of graphics, and a novel approach to the representation and manipulation of database schemas. 1. lIltroduction This paper describes a database interface which is under construction. Sk...