Composition Primitives” is a novel component model targeting .NET. The model facilitates composition across component programming frameworks via an adaptation mechanism external to the component. Constructing adapters is relatively inexpensive, because the model is minimal and focused on just one concern: offering enough information to support composition. Although small, the model supports sta...

Case-based reasoning in the law is a reasoning strategy in which legal conclusions are supported by decisions made by judges. If the case at hand is analogous to a settled case, then by judicial authority one can argue that the settled case should be followed. Case-based reasoning is a topic where ontology meets logic since one’s conception of cases determines one’s conception of reasoning with...

Experimental data from a spatially explicit dynamic commons dilemma experiment is used to empirically ground an agent-based model. Four distinct patterns are identified in the data. Two naïve models, random walk and greedy agents, do not match the patterns. A more comprehensive model is presented that explains how agents make movement and harvest decisions. Using pattern oriented modeling the p...

Many industrial applications require the use of table constraints (e.g., in configuration problems), sometimes of significant size. During the recent years, researchers have focused on reducing space and time complexities of this type of constraint. Static and dynamic reduction based approaches have been proposed giving new compact representations of table constraints and effective filtering al...

We argue that the needs of many classes of modern applications, especially those targeted at mobile or wireless computing, demand the services of content-based publish/subscribe middleware, and that this middleware in turn demands a new kind of communication infrastructure for its proper implementation. We refer to this new communication infrastructure as content-based networking. The service m...

While it is widely acknowledged that economic growth is now dependent on the realisation of a knowledge based economy, there remains much confusion as to how this is realised. Effective management of knowledge is endorsed as an essential element for organisational survival and competitive advantage, yet again, the ways in which knowledge moves through knowledge networks remains poorly understoo...

Semantic trajectory pattern mining is becoming more and more important with the rapidly growing volumes of semantically rich trajectory data. Extracting sequential patterns in semantic trajectories plays a key role in understanding semantic behaviour of human movement, which can widely be used in many applications such as location-based advertising, road capacity optimisation, and urban plannin...

This paper presents a segmentation algorithm for 3D triangular mesh data. The proposed algorithm uses iterative merging of adjacent triangle pairs based on their orientations. The oversegmented regions are merged again in an iterative region merging process. Finally, the noisy boundaries of each region are refined. The boundaries of each region contain perceptually important geometric informati...

The internal structure of the locative predicate-complement form-class in German is described within the framework of a generative grammar consisting of a phrase-structure (PS) component, a semantic (S) component , and a transformation (T) component. The S-component is in-terposed between the PS-component and the T-component. The PS-component generates the deep internal structure of the locativ...

A constant element of our modern environment is change. In decision-making research however, very little is known about how people make choices in dynamic environments. We report the results of an experiment where participants were asked to choose between two options: a dynamic and risky option that resulted in either a high or a low outcome, and a stationary and safe option that resulted in a ...