We present HumMod Browser, a multi-scale exploratory visualization tool that lets physiologists validate human physiology simulation results. Showing correlations, exploring causality relationships, analyzing important attributes, and comparing numerous set of ensemble runs are common tasks in model validation. The lack of interactive exploration often hinders efforts to employ classical graph-...

This paper introduces a formalization of a set of spatial semantic integrity constraints on an extended-relational database model. The formalization extends traditional notions of functional and inclusion dependencies by adding interaction with spatial attributes. This enables to specify implicit and explicit topological conditions between geometries and impose constraints on thematic attribute...

We hypothesized that the attributes of a document’s genre determine a document’s ability to be identified uniquely. Consequently, recognizing the genre will facilitate effective user-document interaction. In this pilot study, we exposed fifteen participants to a set of paper and digital documents, each converted into two surrogates: one based on form, in which the text was masked leaving only t...

Recent research bridging mechanistic and ecological approaches demonstrates that plant attributes can affect herbivores, natural enemies of herbivores, and their interaction. Such effects may be genetically variable among plants and/or induced in individual plants by herbivore attack, and are mediated by primary plant attributes (i.e. nutritional quality and physical structure) and defense-rela...

This study examines the use of web-based electronic services. It aims to develop a web-based electronic service model (e-sam) and test its effectiveness and from it develop an understanding about user interaction with websites. In the process constructs are developed to measure user attributes in using web-based e-services. This paper reports a survey which captured 403 responses on user attrib...

We present a method for estimating activities of multiple objects which are detected in video surveillance systems. In most existing video surveillance systems , the objects detection and classification sometimes cause inaccurate results. In addition to this, we want to monitor activities of objects including interactions between them for long term image sequence. To solve this problem, we newl...

We present a model incorporating both social and economic components, and analyze their interaction. The notion of a social asset, an attribute that has value only because of the social institutions governing society, is introduced. In the basic model, agents match on the basis of income and unproductive attributes. An attribute has value in some equilibrium social institutions (matching patter...

Since embodied agents are considered as equally usable by all kinds of users, not much attention has been paid to the influence of users ́ attributes on the evaluation of agents in general and their (nonverbal) behaviour in particular. Here, we present evidence from three empirical studies with the agent Max, which focus on the effects of participants` gender, age and computer literacy. The resu...

We set forth the attributes of forgiving business models that entrepreneurs can use to minimize losses while exploiting ideas to launch new ventures. Venture ideas possessing these attributes have greater potential because they can shift risk to resource providers. Thus, the success of a venture partially depends on the market conditions for others, which affects how an opportunity can be explo...

Though business processes have been a topic of constant attention to the organization in this decade, the term “Business Process” is understood and interpreted by people differently. This difference in understanding and interpretation is presenting difficulties for organizations to learn from business processes of other organizations or functions. Based on existing literature, this study attemp...