objectives: following the rise in the elderly population worldwide and the increase in chronic diseases among this demographic with their consequent need for care, the subject of elderly care is becoming increasingly important. considering the traditional standing of the elderly in iranian society and the importance of in-community care for them, it seems of crucial importance to study the obst...

The paper focuses on the role of features for the implementation of the transfer-based machine translation systems. The semantic content of syntactic structures is established via the contrastive study of the English and Russian language systems and parallel texts analysis. The notion of cognitive transfer is employed which means that a language unit or structure can be singled out for transfer...

This chapter introduces an agent-based model designed to investigate the dynamics of some aspects of exaptation (chapters 1, 9). It is strongly related to model introduced in the previous chapter. Indeed, in the model described here cognitive categories represent the main tools that the producers and users of artifacts employ in order to interpret their environment, like in the case discussed i...

The central problem associated with libraries of object-oriented software components is that of retrieval: how to nd in the library those components that can be used in the construction of a particular application. Approaches to this problem can be classiied into three categories based upon the way components are represented: external classiication, structural matching and behavioural. The aim ...

Understanding the predictability of a streamflow process is important for making decision for flood control and water management. However not much attention has been paid to the predictability study of streamflow processes so far. Predictability may be broken down into two categories: (1) model predictability and (2) potential predictability. The widely used model performance measure, coefficie...

Texture is one of the important features used in CBIR systems. The methods of characterizing texture fall into two major categories: Statistical and Structural. An experimental comparison of a number of different texture features for content-based image retrieval is presented in this paper. The primary goal is to determine which texture feature or combination of texture features is most efficie...

The objective of this study is to gain a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the critical success factors of location-based services. Electronic brainstorming technique was used to gather the opinions of an expert group of practitioners, researchers, and users on the critical success factors of location-based services. By grouping similar factors together based on past literature, 15 ca...

This paper discusses the problem of characterizing a software component, which is essential to understand what components are and how they can be classified. First, we classify what should be characterized about a component into three categories: Informal Descriptions, Internals, and Externals . Then, using this classification, we derive a set of features to characterize a software component.

In this study we used a new agent-based approach, an artificial market approach, to analyze the ways that dealers process the information in financial news. Using the simulation results obtained with our model, we classified, according to the ways that agents regard the news, three categories of news data. Results of comparison with questionnaires showed that the actual dealers classify data in...

langacker provided new schema-based descriptions of linguistic categories when he was questioning traditional theories of categorization. langecker's model of grammar deals with the reflection of grammatical subsystems of concepts related to space and time in language. also he explains how phenomena such as attention and point of view are encoded in language. the present research aimed to ...