The most promising feature of the Web services platform is its ability to form new (composite) services by combining the capabilities of already existing (component) services. The existing services may themselves be composite leading to a hierarchical composition. In this work, we focus on the discovery aspect. We generalize the characteristics of a service, which need to be considered for succ...

Principal component analysis (PCA), as a key component in statistical learning, has been adopted in a wide variety of applications in computer vision and machine learning. From a different angle, weakly supervised learning, more specifically multiple instance learning (MIL), allows fine-grained information to be exploited from coarsely-grained label information. In this paper, we propose an alg...

Mission statements, one component of an organization’s culture, espouse the "official" and fundamental ideologies of the organization. Organizational culture, a component of organizational memory (OM), influences the members' behavior including the production of both functional and dysfunctional outcomes. This research uses a model from cognitive therapy to examine formal mission statements for...

Carthamus tinctorius L. (Honghua, HH) is an herbal medicine and functional food widely used to treat chronic liver diseases, including fibrosis. By using network pharmacology molecular docking experiments, the present study aims determine bioactive components, potential targets, mechanisms of HH for treating The components were screened from Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology Dat...

We propose a component based modelling and design strategy for the Neighborhood Discovery Component (NDC) and the Selector of Topology Information to Disseminate Component (STIDC) of proactive ad hoc routing protocols. The NDC design strategy focuses on limiting the detection time and removing time of network good and bad links respectively. The STIDC strategy makes sure that only stable links ...

Let $pounds$ be the category of locally compact abelian groups and $A,Cin pounds$. In this paper, we define component extensions of $A$ by $C$ and show that the set of all component extensions of $A$ by $C$ forms a subgroup of $Ext(C,A)$ whenever $A$ is a connected group. We establish conditions under which the component extensions split and determine LCA groups which are component projective. ...

The primary enabling component for using a peer-to-peer (P2P) system as a general service platform is an efficient P2P resource discovery mechanism. The design of a P2P resource discovery mechanism differ from other resource discovery mechanisms because it has to handle the volatile memberships in P2P systems. Controlling the management overhead, implementing fully decentralized mechanisms, and...

BACKGROUND According to statistics of American Society of Plastic Surgeons, cosmetic rhinoplasty was the second most frequently performed cosmetic surgery. This study shares the experiences with component rhinoplasty. METHODS From 2004 to 2010, all patients underwent aesthetic nasal surgery were enrolled. The patients requiring only correction of septal deviation and those presenting with cl...

We study bounds on a neutral component of weak doublet scalar lepton. A typical example such particle is sneutrinos in supersymmetric models. Using constraints from invisible Higgs decays we place lower bound approximately $m_h/2$. recast mono-$W/Z$ search, with hadronic vector boson tag order to parameter space the sneutrino--charged slepton mass plane. find range 55-100 GeV 36 $\text{fb}^{-1}...