In the current era of digital communication, the use of digital images has increased for expressing, sharing and interpreting information. While working with digital images, quite often it is necessary to search for a specific image for a particular situation based on the visual contents of the image. This task looks easy if you are dealing with tens of images but it gets more difficult when th...

This chapter describes three modeling techniques that have recently started to attract the attention of researchers and developers in the domain of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). These techniques are: hierarchical modeling, interoperable and reusable software components, and ontologies. All three of them have been used in developing a model of ITSs called GET-BITS (GEneric Tools for Build...

Distributed group facilitation techniques are becoming a necessity because many of the face-toface facilitation techniques are no longer suitable in a distributed environment. Although the concept of distributed group facilitation has been proposed a decade ago, few distributed facilitation techniques have been successfully employed in the real world. We propose a new method of automating distr...

Knowledge discovery in databases facilitates querying database knowledge, cooperative query answering and semantic query optimization in database systems. In this paper, we investigate the application of discovered knowledge, concept hierarchies, and knowledge discovery tools for intelligent query answering in database systems. A knowledge-rich data model is constructed to incorporate discovere...

Many Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) aim to help students become better readers. The computational challenges involved are (1) to assess the students’ natural language inputs and (2) to provide appropriate feedback and guide students through the ITS curriculum. To overcome both challenges, the following non-structural Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques have been explored and the f...

Reading is a hobby to open the knowledge windows. Besides, it can provide the inspiration and spirit to face this life. By this way, concomitant with the technology development, many companies serve the e-book or book in soft file. The system of this book of course will be much easier. No worry to forget bringing the intelligent machine vision techniques implementations and applications book. Y...

OF THE DISSERTATION New Techniques in Intelligent Information Filtering by Sofus Attila Macskassy Dissertation Director: Dr. Haym Hirsh Intelligent Information Filtering is the process of receiving or monitoring large amounts of dynamically generated information and extracting the subset of information that would be of interest to a user based on some specified information need. Historically, t...

In this paper, we investigate innovative techniques of achieving software flexibility in a workflow environment. We believe that by incorporating workflow technology and intelligent agent techniques into modern information systems, software can be made more robust, more cost effective to maintain, and easier to change. In this paper, we present (1) an in-depth investigation of software flexibil...

Boualem Benlahbib, Farid Bouchafaa, Saad Mekhilef, Noureddine Bouarroudj Laboratoire d'Instrumentation, Faculté d'Electronique et d'Informatique USTHB, Alger (Algérie) Unité de Recherche Appliquée en Energies Renouvelables, URAER, Centre de Développement des Energies Renouvelables, CDER, 47133, Ghardaïa, Algeria Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (PEARL) Department of El...