This paper describes an architecture for performing anaphora resolution in a flexible way. Systems which conform to these guidelines are wellencapsulated and portable, and can be used to compare anaphora resolution techniques for new language understanding applications. Our implementation of the architecture in a pronoun resolution testing platform demonstrates the flexibility of the approach.

Apart from being a technological issue, digital preservation raises several organizational challenges. These challenges are starting to be addressed in the industrial design and e-Science domains, where emerging requirements cannot be addressed directly by OAIS. Thus, new approaches to design and assess digital preservation environments are required. We propose a Reference Architecture as a too...

Popular Internet information systems like the World-wide Web still require the user to actively locate and retrieve information which is a time-consuming and tedious task. Push systems try to remedy this by reversing the communication pattern: information is actively disseminated to users. A large number of push systems is already available and these systems are gaining wide-spread use. The pur...

Recent advances in the IT can be applied to properly support certain complex requirements in the scientific and engineering domains. In experimental sciences, for instance, researchers should be assisted with conducting their complex scientific experimentation and supporting their collaboration with other scientists. The main requirements identified in such domains include the management of lar...

In the workflow management field, fast developments are taking place. A growing number of systems is currently under development, both in academic and commercial environments. Consequently, a wide variety of ad hoc architectures has come into existence. Reference models are necessary, however, to allow for the construction of cooperative systems, modular configuration of heterogeneous systems, ...

The OHS Working Group formed out of the 2nd Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems at Hypertext '96 in Washington, DC (March 1996). The initial goals of the OHS Working Group were to define open hypermedia systems and to define open link services. The OHS Working Group meeting in Southampton, England (December 1996) showed that it is difficult to discuss scenarios and especially protocols [Davis e...

Nowadays, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is used as an efficient solution to integrate distributed applications in an enterprise. In a SOA-based environment, security is one of the most important issues that must be considered on account of loosely coupled nature of SOA. However, there are several approaches and technologies for securing services such as WS-Security, SAML, and etc. SOA bri...

Architectures for data systems that are built and managed by a single organization are inherently complex. In order to understand a large scale space data system architecture, and to judge its applicability for its nominal task, a description must be produced that exposes a number of distinct viewpoints. Such descriptions will typically cover the uses that are to be made of the system, the h c ...

With big data technology and predictive analytics techniques, organizations can now register, combine, process and analyze data to answer questions that were unsolvable a few years ago. This paper introduces a solution reference that gives guidance to organizations that want to innovate using big data technology and predictive analytics techniques for improving their performance. The reference ...