Some e-shops present product attributes in structured form, but many others use the textual description only. Attributes of products are essential in automated product deduplication. We suggest methods for automated extraction of attributes and their values from product descriptions to a structural form. The structural data extracted from other e-shops are used as background knowledge.

Multilevel secure database management system (MLS/DBMS) products no longer enjoy direct commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) support. Meanwhile, existing users of these MLS/DBMS products continue to rely on them to satisfy their multilevel security requirements. This calls for a new approach to developing MLS/DBMS systems, one that relies on adapting the features of existing COTS database products r...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Given the increasing emphasis being placed on managing patients with chronic diseases within primary care, there is a need to better understand which primary care organizational attributes affect the quality of care that patients with chronic diseases receive. This study aimed to identify, summarize and compare data collection tools that describe and measure organ...

As the web has become a place for sharing of information and resources across varied domains, there is a need for providing authorization services in addition to authentication services provided by public key infrastructure (PKI). In distributed systems the use of attribute certificates (AC) has been explored as a solution for implementation of authorization services and their use is gaining po...

In sensory analysis a panel of assessors gives scores to blocks of sensory attributes for profiling products, thus yielding a three-way table crossing assessors, attributes and products. In this context, it is important to evaluate the panel performance as well as to synthesize the scores into a global assessment to investigate differences between products. Recently, a combined approach of fuzz...

The gradually varied surface was introduced and studied in digital and discrete spaces by Chen. The basic idea of introducing gradually varied surfaces is to employ a purely discrete interpolation algorithm to fit a discrete surface when the desired surface is not required to be “smooth.” In this paper, we generalize the concept of gradually varied surfaces. A digital surface is defined as a ma...

AIM Optimizing movement quality is a common rehabilitation goal for children with cerebral palsy (CP). The new Quality Function Measure (QFM)--a revision of the Gross Motor Performance Measure (GMPM)--evaluates five attributes: Alignment, Co-ordination, Dissociated movement, Stability, and Weight-shift, for the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) Stand and Walk/Run/Jump items. This study evalua...