Gens, Gentes, Gentiles

GeNS: a Biological Data Integration Platform

The scientific achievements coming from molecular biology depend greatly on the capability of computational applications to analyze the laboratorial results. A comprehensive analysis of an experiment requires typically the simultaneous study of the obtained dataset with data that is available in several distinct public databases. Nevertheless, developing a centralized access to these distribute...

Generalized Scalarizing Model GENS in DSS WebOptim

A web-based Decision Support System WebOptim for solving multiple objective optimization problems is presented. Its basic characteristics are: user-independent, multisolver-admissibility, method-independent, heterogeneity, web-accessibility. Core system module is an original generalized interactive scalarizing method. It incorporates a number of thirteen interactive methods. Most of the known s...

The Catholic School as a Courtyard of the Gentiles

Dedicated Caravan Sites for French Gens du Voyage

In France, gens du voyage ("people who travel" or "travellers") is a term used by the government to categorize various itinerant populations, the majority of which are diverse Romani groups. People categorized as gens du voyage are legally required to reside in particular locations called "dedicated caravan sites." Parliamentary debates about these dedicated caravan sites have clarified that on...

Colors of People (Les couleurs des gens) [in French]

In Natural Language Processing and semantic analysis in particular, color information may be important in order to properly process textual information (word sense disambiguation, and indexing). More specifically, knowing which colors are generally associated to terms is a crucial information. In this paper, we explore how crowdsourcing through a game with a purpose (GWAP) can be an adequate st...