Organizations that lack a coherent strategy for managing and evolving their IT platform and resources end up with fragmentation within the organization. Because the need for data sharing and systems integration is not always limited to the internal organization, the boundaries between the organization and its customers, vendors, suppliers, and partners are often blurred. It appears to be eviden...

English. We present Contrast-Ita Bank, a corpus annotated with discourse contrast relations in Italian. We annotate both explicit and implicit contrast relations, following the schema proposed in the Penn Discourse Treebank. We provide and discuss quantitative data about the new resource. Italiano. Presentiamo Contrast-Ita Bank, un corpus annotato con relazioni di contrasto in italiano. Abbiamo...

An Intelligent Tutoring Agent (ITA) for the board game Settlers of Catan (SoC) is introduced. It uses CLIPS knowledge bases, connected by JCLIPS to a JAVA implementation of SoC. It is founded on a new theoretical framework that describes the development of negotiation skills in children. Using this framework, the ITA helps children in developing negotiation skills through play, which makes it u...

Abstract Mean monthly streamflow records of ten gauging stations in the Mae Klong River Basin, Thailand, were analyzed for trends using non-parametric approaches period 2000–2015. The statistical significance was tested on monthly, seasonal, and annual scales three tests; Mann–Kendall (MK), Spearman's rho (SR), innovative trend analysis (ITA) a 5% level. grouped into two categories: naturalized...

The following issues frequently appear in the business process of manufacturing enterprises: the necessity and appropriate time of adopting information technology (IT). Based on Online Algorithms and competition analysis theory, this paper attempts to find out effective decision model for information technology adoption (ITA) when they cannot predict the time external IT will appear and any inf...

We address the problem of performance and power-efficient thread allocation in a CMP. To that end, based on analytical model, we introduce a parameterized performance/power metric that can be adjusted according to a preferred tradeoff between performance and power. We introduce an iterative threshold algorithm (ITA) for allocating threads to cores in the case of a single application with symmet...

A 60-year-old man visited the outpatient clinic due to one month of recurrent exertional chest pain. Eleven years earlier he had undergone off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting using bilateral internal thoracic artery (ITA) Y-composite grafts based on the left ITA. Preoperative coronary angiography showed patent distal graft anastomoses and visualized the left ITA retrogradely. The arch aort...