Corrigendum: Building trust, building futures: Knowledge as co-production relationship, design, and process in transdisciplinary scienceIn the published article, there was an omission Funding statement. " This research funded by National Science Foundation: grant number SES-1639524 through Innovations at Nexus of Food, Energy, Water Systems program; OIA-1757324 NSF Idaho EPSCoR Program, and; BC...

In this paper, we present an emulator of a buildingenergy performance simulator. Previous work on emulators for this application has largely focused on linear models. Since the simulator itself is a collection of differential equations, we expect non-linear models to be better emulators than linear models. The emulator we present in this paper is based on Gaussian-process (GP) regression models...

The evolution of the Semantic Web (SW) depends on novel methodologies to represent the meanings of the huge amount of information available nowadays. Recent proposals in literature have explored new approaches based on Semiotics. The ‘Semiotic Web Ontology’ (SWO) is an attempt to model the information in a more precise way, and, at the same time to be compatible with the SW standards. This pape...

Ontologies are the backbone of the Semantic Web, a semantic-aware version of the World Wide Web. To the end of making available large-scale domain ontologies, effective and usable methodologies are needed to facilitate the process of Ontology Building. Many of the methods proposed so far only in part refer to wellknown and widely used standards from other areas, like software engineering and kn...

Most ontologies are application ontologies, that are not reusable and are difficult to link together as they are too specific. Reference ontology is able to contribute significantly in reducing the issue of ontology applications specificity. Particularly considering higher education domain, we think that a reference ontology dedicated to this knowledge area, can be regarded as a valuable tool f...

Abstract. In this paper, we propose a technique for establishing process lines, which are sets of common processes in particular problem domains, and process line architectures that incorporate commonality and variability. Process line architectures are used as a basis for deriving process lines from the perspective of overall optimization. The proposed technique includes some extensions to the...

In business process modeling, semi-formal models typically rely on natural language used to express the labels of model elements. This can easily lead to ambiguities and misinterpretations. To mitigate this issue, the combination of process models with formal ontologies or predefined vocabularies has often been suggested. A cornerstone of such suggestions is to annotate elements from process mo...