Many organizations are currently deciding whether to insource or outsource their IS function or parts thereof, but are unsure as to what kind of organizational structure to arrange for sourcing and where to locate the sourced activities. To assist in this matter, several IT consultancy firms are providing sourcing consultancy to their clients, resulting in a large body of practical knowledge th...

The present paper discusses an application of multilingual, multi-layer corpus analysis from translation studies. The concrete context is the empirical testing of hypotheses about the specific properties of translations, such as explicitation, simplification, sanitization or normalization. While some of these assumed properties can be tested using some rather shallow measures that operate at th...

Although significant progresses have been made in recent years regarding the goals of Enterprise Engineering, we find that the rationale behind every component of an organization is still not systematically and clearly specified. Indeed, state of the art approaches to enterprise development processes do not explicitly incorporate an essential dimension of analysis: value. This state of affairs ...

Usage of discourse connectives (DCs) differs across languages, thus addition and omission of connectives are common in translation. We investigate how implicit (omitted) DCs in the source text impacts various machine translation (MT) systems, and whether a discourse parser is needed as a preprocessor to explicitate implicit DCs. Based on the manual annotation and alignment of 7266 pairs of disc...

Based on the cooperative principle brought up by American philosopher of language named Grice, with exemplification and explanation violation four maxims, this paper also combines hedges, analyzing translation hedges so as to better manage implicit explicit information in translation. Meanwhile, how conversational maxims operate a text can contribute characterization style, “the perceived disti...

Abstract. We follow the mathematical framework proposed by Bouchut [6] and present in this contribution a dual entropy approach for determining equilibrium states of a lattice Boltzmann scheme. This method is expressed in terms of the dual of the mathematical entropy relative to the underlying conservation law. It appears as a good mathematical framework for establishing a “H-theorem” for the s...

In the last few years the amount of manuscripts digitized and made available on the Web has been constantly increasing. However, there is still a considarable lack of results concerning both the explicitation of their content and the tools developed to make it available. The objective of the Clavius on the Web project is to develop a Web platform exposing a selection of Christophorus Clavius le...

Information in enterprise is, now more than ever, a fundamental resource. In order to increase enterprise performance, economics paradigms focus on how to better manage it. Information Systems (IS) are systems whose activities are devoted to capture and to store data, to process them and produce knowledge, used by any stakeholders within an enterprise or among different networked enterprises. T...