There have been multiple techniques to discover action-rules, but the problem of triggering those rules was left exclusively to domain knowledge and domain experts. When meta-actions are applied on objects to trigger a specific rule, they might as well trigger transitions outside of the target action rule scope. Those additional transitions are called side effects, which could be positive or ne...

Engineering applications that use Active DBMSs (ADBMSs) often need to group activities into modes that are shifted during the execution of different tasks. This paper presents a mechanism for grouping rules into contexts that can be activated and deactivated dynamically. The ADBMS monitors only those events that affect rules of activated contexts. By dynamic rule grouping the rules to be monito...

Changes in people's transaction behavior using the internet resulted exponential growth of e-commerce. With digital shopping transactions, it is difficult to predict customer segments and patterns traditional mathematical models. Timely identification emerging trends from large volumes data plays a major role business processes decision making. This different previous research works that apply ...

We present a series of experiments whose results show strong similarities between textural grouping and motion experiments. A family of stimuli consisting of elements of different colors, luminancepolarity, and orientation are used in experiments in both eliciting textural grouping and detection of apparent motion. Among the similarities are that the orientation attribute is a weaker attribute ...

Beyond perceiving patterns of motion in simple dynamic displays, we can also perceive higher level properties, such as causality, as when we see one object collide with another object. Although causality is a seemingly high-level property, its perception--like the perception of faces or speech--often appears to be automatic, irresistible, and driven by highly constrained and stimulus-driven rul...

Declarative technologies have made great strides in expressivity between SQL and SBVR. SBVR models are more expressive that SQL schemas, but not as imminently executable yet. In this paper, we complete the architecture of a system that can execute SBVR models. We do this by describing how SBVR rules can be transformed into SQL DML so that they can be automatically checked against the database u...

We describe University at Albany’s CLQA system and its performance in English-Chinese subtask evaluation in NTCIR-6 CLQA. Firstly we illustrate our submitted system, which was built in two weeks. (We had to finish our CLQA system in this time limit because we were late registered.) Then we would like to introduce the improved system which utilizes our ACE (Automatic Content Extraction) relation...

This paper describes an automatic grouping system, which segments the music into units such as phrases or motives, based on the Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM in short, hereafter). The GTTM is considered to be one of the most promising theories of music in regard to computer implementation; however, no order in applying those rules is given and thus, more often than not, may result in c...