Electronic document management (EDM) technology has the potential to enhance the information management in construction projects considerably, without radical changes to current practice. Over the past fifteen years this topic has been overshadowed by building product modelling in the construction IT research world, but at present EDM is quickly being introduced in practice, in particular in bi...

This research aims to detect document forgery in handwritten notes based on ink spectral information. Multiple criterion methods, based on local information of the target window, to determine ink numbers were conducted. The comparison of the results generated from different anomaly detection methods was presented. The accuracy results showed that the methods implemented in the project were help...

Metadata is used to describe documents and applications, improving information seeking and retrieval and its understanding and use. Metadata can be expressed in a wide variety of vocabularies and languages, and can be created and maintained with a variety of tools. Ontology based annotation refers to the process of creating metadata using ontologies as their vocabularies. We present similaritie...

In this paper we present Document analysis and classification system to segment and classify contents of Arabic document images. This system includes preprocessing, document segmentation, feature extraction and document classification. A document image is enhanced in the preprocessing by removing noise, binarization, and detecting and correcting image skew. In document segmentation, an algorith...

We describe the Open Mind Initiative, a framework for large-scale collaborative efforts in building components of “intelligent” systems that address common-sense reasoning, document and language understanding, speech and character recognition, and so on. Based on the Open Source methodology, the Open Mind Initiative allows domain specialists to contribute algorithms, tool developers to provide ...

This paper deals with the problem of ancient document analysis. The first part of the paper is dedicated to a kind of state of art concerning french community projects, the purpose of which deals with the preservation and the exploitation of heritage documents. The second part focusses on a set of open issues, which should be tackled by the document analysis community, for the management of the...

Operations Research (OR), also called Operational Research in the United Kingdom (UK), uses various computational tools for solutions to complex problems within a system. It deals with challenges in planning, scheduling, forecasting, process analysis and decision analysis. It also addresses individual components of the system. The methodology used for decisions based upon stochastic (random) pr...