Incorporating external data into data warehouses is a rather unexplored area and deserves more attention, especially if considering the resources organizations spend on acquiring data from specialized data suppliers. Therefore, this paper gives the results of an interview study partly aimed at evaluating, from a general perspective, the outline of such a process and related problems. The result...

The Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management (CPW) is a voluntary partnership of international organizations with substantive mandates and programmes for the sustainable use and conservation of wildlife resources. The mission of the CPW is to increase cooperation and coordination among its members and other interested parties on sustainable wildlife management to promote the...

We propose a two-layered model for computing semantic and conceptual interpretations from dependency structures. Abstract interpretation schemata generate semantic interpretations of `minimal' dependency subgraphs, while production rules whose speci cation is rooted in ontological categories derive a canonical conceptual interpretation from semantic interpretation structures. Con gurational des...

Avila and Molina [1] introduced the notion of generalized weak structures which naturally generalize minimal structures, generalized topologies and weak structures and the structures α(g),π(g),σ(g) and β(g). This work is a further investigation of generalized weak structures due to Avila and Molina. Further we introduce the structures ro(g) and rc(g) and study the properties of the structures r...

The goal of this research is to develop and evaluate a curriculum that teaches ERP concepts and skills using hands-on practical tasks in a globalised context. The curriculum employs Kolb's experiential learning cycle to facilitate student learning about the issues associated with internationalisation and globalisation of business operations and the use of ERP systems. A small pilot study was un...

Ideally, a spoken dialogue system should react without much delay to a user’s utterance. Such a system would already select an object, for instance, before the user has finished her utterance about moving this particular object to a particular place. A prerequisite for such a prompt reaction is that semantic representations are built up on the fly and passed on to other modules. Few approaches ...

Abstract: In his pioneering work on singular shells in general relativity, Lanczos had derived jump conditions across energy-momentum carrying hypersurfaces from the Einstein equation with codimension 1 sources. However, on the level of the action, the discontinuity of the connection arising from a codimension 1 energy-momentum source requires to take into account two adjacent space-time region...

Interpretation: Past, Present and Future