This paper presents Halos Networks as a competitive architectural paradigm for developing future Internet of-with Things. A Halos Network is like a wireless network spontaneously emerging through the interactions of distributed resources embedding wireless communication capabilities. Halos Networks are capable of delivering services and data virally through multiple devices, machines and object...

In the past decade, several researchers have started reinvestigating the use of sub-phonetic models for lexical representations within automatic speech recognition systems. Lest history repeat itself, it may be instructive to mine the further past for models of lexical representations in the lexical access literature. In this work, we re-evaluate the model of Briscoe (1989), in which a hybrid s...

Construction tasks can be linked to achievement in maths and science and form part of school curricula. However, there is little foundation for their use in teaching as there are no apparent methods for assessing difficulty. This empirical research identifies four construction task characteristics that impact on cognition and influence construction task difficulty in children aged 7-8 and 10-11...

In future, the so called ”sensing enterprise”, as part of the Future Internet, will play a crucial role in the success or the failure of an enterprise. We present our vision of an enterprise interacting with the physical world based on a retail scenario. One of the main challenges is the interoperability not only between the enterprise IT systems themselves, but also between these systems and t...

We develop a novel visual approach to evaluating an Internet pricing scheme using a 3Dmetric model, which encompasses the dimensions of technical complexity, economic efficiency and social impact. We review the history of Internet pricing research over the last decade, summarizing the key features of the most significant models, and analyzing and evaluating them using our 3D model. Based on the...

Language comprehension in humans is very robust. With apparent ease, language users can grasp the meaning of utterances made in very bad acoustic conditions or containing grammatical errors. A key mechanism in achieving this robustness is the ability of the listener to predict what the speaker is likely to say. According to recent work in psycholinguistics, these predictions are made by covertl...

This paper reports further progress into a computational implementation of a new formalism for construction grammar, known as Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG). We focus in particular on how hierarchy can be implemented. The paper analyses the requirements for a proper treatment of hierarchy in grammar and then proposes a particular solution based on a new operator, known as the J-operator. The ...