Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), where queries and documents are in different languages, has of late become one of the major topics within the information retrieval community. This paper proposes a Japanese/English CLIR system, where we combine a query translation and retrieval modules. We currently target the retrieval of technical documents, and therefore the performance of our sy...

since 1998 in which over 60 academic researchers collaborated with industrial colleagues. Through its setup and its results PROGRESS has become a landmark on demand-driven academic research in The Netherlands. This booklet is unique in the way it surveys both the present state of the Dutch academic embedded systems research and the contributions of the projects to that. It presents white papers...

Writer identification is the domain of documents image analysis which popularly sound in many applications like banking, academic professional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Signature verification remains one most important entities to authenticate document these applications. In view technical breakthrough, we have focused on short words signatures are very hard verify as they raise issue...

Business intelligence (BI) architecture based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept enables enterprises to deploy agile and reliable BI applications. However, the key factors for implementing a SOA-based BI architecture from technical perspectives have not yet been systematically investigated. Most of the prior studies focus on organisational and managerial perspectives rather than tec...

This study proposes an innovative two-sta-ge approach, using Data Envelopment Analysis and Biplot, to evaluate the techni-cal efficiency of 30 academic departments a Chilean university, identify main factors affecting their performan-ces. Public higher education worldwide is under growing pressure increase improve quality edu-cation with limited governmental funds given state-owned universities...

As higher education courses are increasingly expected to have an online presence, academic staff are faced not only with workload challenges but also with changes to the type of work in which they are involved and consequently the skills, dispositions and support that is required. Within the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology, several mini-cases relating to microinnovat...

Business intelligence (BI) architecture based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept enables enterprises to deploy agile and reliable BI applications. However, the key factors for implementing a SOA-based BI architecture from technical perspectives have not yet been systematically investigated. Most of the prior studies focus on organisational and managerial perspectives rather than tec...