This paper presents a novel approach to modelling time series datasets using fuzzy trend information. A time series is described using natural linguistic terms such as rising more steeply and falling less steeply. These natural shape descriptors enable us to produce a glass box model of the series. The linguistic shape descriptors are represented in our system by a new feature called the trend ...

Prevailing research on IT governance suggests that a large and increasing majority of multi-divisional organizations utilize a federal model of organization. Contingencies that influence a choice of centralized, decentralized or federal model include the organizational structure, business unit scope and the absorptive capacity of the business unit (Sambamurthy & Zmud 1999). Given the attention ...

The MuST (Multimodal Summarization for Trend Information) workshop was designed to encourage cooperative and competitive studies on summarization and visualization for trend information. The main objective of the workshop is to develop technologies using multimedia presentation that will allow intelligent systems to provide users with appropriate answers to their queries on trend information. T...

WebCT that has been used widely in higher educational institutes of North America is going to be a mission critical e-Learning platform in on-campus education, rather than mere WBT system. In this paper, we describe WebCT and its current status in North America at first. Secondly, we introduce three critical trends for educational information basis that we can observe in the movement of WebCT; ...

A system for extracting and visualizing trend information about earthquakes from tagged corpus, which is distributed by a Workshop on Multimodal Summarization for Trend Information (MuST), is proposed. The topic of earthquakes does not contain only temporal trends, which are main concerns of typical topics such as gas price and stock price movement, but also spatial trends including the seismic...

this study aims to describe the way in which bibliometric analysis can become a trend recognition tool. the research work shows the application of bibliometric analysis in science. such analyses provide information about the response received by scientific publications. the paper indicates how, with the aid of a tripartite division, it becomes possible to examine the past, present and future. f...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of benzalkonium (BAK)-free travoprost monotherapy administered for 3 years on intraocular pressure and visual field performance. METHODS The intraocular pressure of 76 patients with normal tension glaucoma was monitored every 1-3 months. A Humphrey visual field test was performed every 6 months after treatment and compared with ...