CrossCult is a newly started project that aims to make reflective history a reality in the European cultural context. In this paper we examine how the project aims to take advantage of advances in semantic technologies in order to achieve its goals. Specifically, we see what the quest for reflection is and, through practical examples from two of the project’s flagship pilots, explain how semant...

A new verification project has recently started at Philips Research. It concerns a verification of C-like concurrent programs used to specify functionality of hardware/software systems. The problem is to make the verification practical, in the sense that it must be mechanised, and applicable to thousands of lines of C-like code. We will present the goals of the project and some solutions we wan...

We describe the goals of the ATTEST project, which started in March 2002 as part of the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme, sponsored by the European Commission. In the 2-year project, several industrial and academic partners cooperate towards a flexible, 2D-compatible and commercially feasible 3DTV system for broadcast environments. An entire 3D-video chain will be developed. We ...

the issue of successful project management and control is of vital importance in today’s world. although the time and cost of any project is determined in advance, paying less attention to an appropriate control and revision will result in a small chance of reaching those goals. the earned value management method that shows deviation of projects schedules and costs is of the good method for thi...

the subject of monetary policy orientation and tailoring a framework within which the credibility and desirability of the policies and the policy makers is enhanced, while the most important goal of policies, i.e reaching to and preserving a low and stable inflation rate is achieved, has recently been a controversial issue for a large number of economists. in fact the necessity arised since the...

While to minimize the overall project cost is always one of the objectives of construction managers, to obtain the maximum economic return is definitely one the ultimate goals of the project investors. As there is a trade-off relationship between the project time and cost, and the project delivery time directly affects the timing of economic recovery of an investment project, to provide a metho...

The ability to represent geospatial semantics is of great importance when building geospatial applications for the Web. Semantic Web Service technology provides solutions for intelligent service annotation, discovery, composition and invocation in distributed environments. Deploying this technology into geospatial web applications has the potential to enhance discovery, retrieval and integratio...

This paper reports on the project plan to develop a new major version of the popular ns-2 networking simulator. The authors have organized an NSF-funded, four-year community infrastructure project to develop the next version of ns. The project will also be oriented towards community development and open source software practices to encourage participation from the broader research and education...