In the present era of information explosion and media influence, these advertisements play a major role in changing the settled perception or thinking, which is otherwise called attitude, of the consumer and also the consumption pattern of the society in general. Across the world, celebrities have been used for a wide variety of brands. The crescendo of celebrities endorsing brands has been ste...

In this paper MULTITALE, a system for the semantic tagging o f medical neurosurgical texts and for the semi-automatic expansion o f the medical lexicon, will be presented. Given the textual information explosion (in particular in, though not restricted to, specialized domains) there is an urgent need for tools enabling to exploit the information available in natural language texts. MULTITALE ha...

Data is often recorded, captured, and stored automatically via sensors and monitoring systems. Many of the simple transactions now part of our everyday lives, such as paying for food and clothes by credit card or using the telephone, are typically recorded for future reference by computers. Many parameters of each transaction are routinely captured, resulting in highly dimensional data. The dat...

Objectives 1. To identify organisations involved in gas explosion research in the U.K. and Europe. 2. To survey these organisations, to determine their areas of current and proposed work. 3. To collate their responses in a report, which also provides an up to date literature review of gas explosion modelling. 4. To critically assess the strengths and weaknesses of available gas explosion models...

Classical state-oriented testing approaches are based on simple machine models such as Labelled Transition Systems (LTSs), in which data is represented by concrete values. To implement these theories, data types which have infinite universes have to be cut down to finite variants, which are subsequently enumerated to fit in the model. This leads to an explosion of the state space. Moreover, exp...

This paper presents a method for service-component testing and a suitable CORBA test architecture. This test environment allows the service validation from its components and is a close step towards the execution of the obtained tests on a CORBA environment. Two aspects are relevant: the test of components and the test architecture. The testing method for components is new: it is based on the g...

We present IC-Cut, short for “Interface-Complexity-based Cut”, a new compositional search strategy for systematically testing large programs. IC-Cut dynamically detects function interfaces that are simple enough to be cost-effective for summarization. IC-Cut then hierarchically decomposes the program into units defined by such functions and their sub-functions in the call graph. These units are...