Interactive storytelling encompasses a wide variety of applications and systems that aim to allow players in a virtual world to affect the narrative progression prescribed by the author. The story world is often modeled by a set of hand-crafted causal and temporal relationships that define the possible narrative sequences based on the user’s actions. In our view, a more promising approach invol...

Software product lines and related approaches, like software factories, are starting to capture the attention of the industry practitioners. Nevertheless, their adoption outside the research community and big companies is still very restricted. We believe that model-driven approaches, like OMG’s MDA, with proper tool support, can bring the advantages of product lines to a broader audience. For ...

The proliferation of ontologies and taxonomies in many domains increasingly demands the integration of multiple such ontologies. We propose a new taxonomy merging is target-driven, i.e. we merge a source taxonomy into the target taxonomy and preserve the target ontology as much as possible. In contrast to previous approaches, ATOM does not aim at fully preserving all input concepts and relation...

Motivated by a systematic analysis of Chinese semantic relationships, we constructed a Chinese semantic framework based on surface syntactic relationships, deep semantic relationships and feature structure to express dependencies between lexical meanings and conceptual structures, and relations that underlie those lexical meanings. Analyzing the semantic representations of 10000 Chinese sentenc...

Ceramic is one of the highly competitive products in Thailand. Many Thai ceramic companies are attempting to know the customer needs and perceptions for making favorite products. To know customer needs is the target of designers and to develop a product that must satisfy customers. This research is applied Kansei Engineering (KE) and Data Mining (DM) into the customer driven product design proc...

Globalization, acute competition, the information technology revolution, and increasing customer sophistication are radically redefining environmental conditions, and, meanwhile, challenging managerial representations and traditional organizational recipes for managing intraand inter-firm relationships. Hence, we examine in this study the way companies interact with their employees and customer...

allows the user to define rules on contraindication alerts, drug interaction warnings, diagnostic and In the near future, every medical intreatment recommendations, etc. formation system wiil be equipped with a function that provides knowledge-based decision support. Data-driven knowledgebased decision support consists, in the first place, of a medical data-to-concept conversion step and, secon...

While the importance of Granger-causal (G-causal) relationships for learning vector autoregressive models (VARs) is widely acknowledged, the state-of-theart VAR methods do not address the problem of discovering the underlying Gcausality structure in a principled manner. VAR models can be restricted if such restrictions are supported by a strong domain theory (e.g. economics), but without such s...