The convergence between business process modeling and the service-oriented architecture has created a significant opportunity for Information Technology (IT) system integrators: they can offer effective business process outsourcing for Small Medium Enterprises (SME)s that often cannot afford the cost of designing, provisioning, and operating their own software service bus. In this paper, we pre...

semantic shifting which is one of the most important semantic processes forming the meaning of some linguistic structures was first introduced by safavi (1379). the meaning of different structures such as proverbs, are made by semantic shifting which takes place on the syntagmatic axis, but is shown on the paradigmatic axis. the corpus used in this study consists of 10 persian proverbs which ar...

This chapter describes the convergence of two influential technologies in the last decade, namely data mining (DM) and the Semantic Web (SW). The wide acceptance of new SW formats for describing semantics-aware and semistructured contents have spurred on the massive generation of semantic annotations and large-scale domain ontologies for conceptualizing their concepts. As a result, a huge amoun...

This paper aims at designing a possible path of convergence between the Open Access and the Semantic Web communities. In section 2, it focuses on the problems that the current Web has to face to become a fully effective research means, with particular regard to the question of selection according to subjective quality criteria. Section 3 exposes the main principles and standards which lie behin...

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing body of work that explores whether sensory and motor information is a necessary part of semantic representation and processing. This is the embodiment hypothesis. This paper presents a theoretical review of this work that is intended to be useful for researchers in the neurosciences and neuropsychology. Beginning with a historical perspective, ...

Technological development has promoted the demand for voice, data, and video services. This trend has produced the so called Triple Play (voice, data, and video network services). This article studies the efficient transmission of video in this type of networks. Specifically, the article presents the evaluation of the performance of video flows generated by a modified codec H.26/AVC. This modif...

It is a basic scientific practice to examine a limited amount of data in the light of some theoretical framework and to develop an analysis that accounts for the primary facts and extends to unseen data. If the predictions are correct, the analysis stands and lends further support for the framework in which it is conceived. This paper focuses on a case where the analysis turns out to be wrong. ...

The PhD Thesis is concentrating in the convergence of knowledge management and technology enhanced learning towards the effectiveness in the design and exploitation of learning content. The main emphasis is paid to the modelling of the learning content development process and through ontological considerations the thesis contributes in theory and practice as follows: It proposes a Life Cycle mo...

The need for semantics preserving integration of complex data has been widely recognized in the healthcare domain. While standards such as Health Level Seven (HL7) have been developed in this direction, they have mostly been applied in limited, controlled environments, still being used incoherently across countries, organizations, or hospitals. In a more mobile and global society, data and know...

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and, more generally, African American English (AAE) are the most heavily studied group of dialects in North American English. Much of the enquiry has focused on morphosyntactic variation, but a significant amount has dealt with phonological and phonetic variables. Linguistic variables that can set AAE off from local European American varieties (EAE) in...