This paper introduces Latent Relational Analysis (LRA), a method for measuring semantic similarity. LRA measures similarity in the semantic relations between two pairs of words. When two pairs have a high degree of relational similarity, they are analogous. For example, the pair cat:meow is analogous to the pair dog:bark. There is evidence from cognitive science that relational similarity is fu...

This paper presents a model-based architectural approach to evolving, or growing, adaptive software systems. The architecture is based on the Viable System Model (VMS) developed by Stafford Beer. The VSM, as a meta-model, tries to capture the essential invariants required by successful, or viable, systems. These types of systems are called Complex Adaptive Systems in Complexity Theory and Intel...

Stafford Beer proposed a Viable Systems Model, which was supposed to support successful management of enterprises. Since then numerous research works have referred to that model in management, information systems, and computer sciences. However, in the area of enterprise modeling there is a shortage of tools that would give an opportunity to create detailed enterprise models that would adhere t...

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) has been successfully applied in the context of software process improvement. However, its current adaptations from Lean manufacturing focus mostly on the flow of artifacts and have taken no account of the essential information flows in software development. A solution specifically targeted towards information flow elicitation and modeling is FLOW. This paper aims to ...

RATIONALE Decreasing Ca2+ sensitivity of vascular smooth muscle (VSM) allows for vasodilation without lowering of cytosolic Ca2+. This may be particularly important in states requiring maintained dilation, such as hypoxia. AMP-related kinase (AMPK) is an important cellular energy sensor in VSM. Regulation of Ca2+ sensitivity usually is attributed to myosin light chain phosphatase activity, but ...

To investigate the origin of seven Ardisia crenata Sims seedlings with non-variegated foliages (VSm) from a progeny of a mother plant with variegated foliage and red berries (VM), morphological and genetic characteristics of these seedlings were compared with mother plants of A. crenata with VM, plants with non-variegated leaves and white berries (WM), and plants with non-variegated leaves and ...

Naik, Jay S., Scott Earley, Thomas C. Resta, and Benjimen R. Walker. Pressure-induced smooth muscle cell depolarization in pulmonary arteries from control and chronically hypoxic rats does not cause myogenic vasoconstriction. J Appl Physiol 98: 1119–1124, 2005. First published October 22, 2004; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00819. 2004.—Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, as well as prolonged re...

Automatic text classification based on vector space model (VSM), artificial neural networks (ANN), Knearest neighbor (KNN), N aives Bayes (NB) and support vector machine (SVM) have been applied on English language documents, and gained popularity among text mining and information retrieval (IR) researchers. This paper proposes the application of ANN for the classification of Tamil language docu...

Autonomic Computing has the potential to deliver self-managing systems, based upon the principles of the human autonomic nervous system. Since its inception, significant advancement has been made in realising the objectives of the genre; however, scope for progression still exists. The authors present innovative research, applying a cybernetic approach to the development of Autonomic Computing ...