In only four or five years, the World Wide Web has changed from a static collection of HTML web pages to a dynamic engine that powers e-commerce, collaborative work, and distribution of information and entertainment. These exciting changes have been fueled by changes in software technology, the software development process, and how software is deployed. Although the word “heterogeneous” is comm...

Many factors influence the shelf-life, color, and sensory attributes of beef. Packaging is one of those factors. There are several different types of packaging used in the meat industry, including vacuum packaging, overwrap, and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). Traditionally wholesale cuts are vacuum packaged, boxed, and sent to retailers where they cut the meat, place it on a styrofoam tra...

in this study, quality characteristics of incorporated burgers containing 25, 50, 75 and 100 common carp (cyprinus carpio) surimi was evaluated. accordingly, proximate composition, texture profile analysis (tpa), color, water holding capacity (whc) and sensory attributes of resulted burgers were determined. based on data, burgers containing surimi showed lower amount of protein, fat and ash com...

The widespread use of GPS-equipped devices such as smartphones and tablets and the easy handling of online maps are simplifying the production and dissemination of volunteered geographic information (VGI) through the internet. VGI systems collect and distribute this type of information and can be used, for example, in cases of natural disasters, mapping, city management, etc. In some cases, the...

An understanding of the nature of soils in natural and human influence ecosystems is essential if progress is to be made in the determination and monitoring of soil quality. This paper briefly discuss the changing circumstances which have resulted in the increased awareness of the importance of soil as a key component of both natural and human influenced environmental systems. These changed cir...

As Component-based Software Development (CBSD) starts to be effectively used, some software vendors have commenced to successfully sell and licence commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. One of the most critical processes in CBSD is the selection of the COTS components that meet the user’s requirements. Current proposals have shown how to deal with the functional aspects of this evaluation...

Heuristic measures for estimating the quality of attributes mostly assume the independence of attributes so in domains with strong dependencies between attributes their performance is poor. Relief and its extension ReliefF are capable of correctly estimating the quality of attributes in classification problems with strong dependencies between attributes. By exploiting local information provided...

One of crucial tasks in machine learning is the evaluation of the quality of attributes. For that purpose a number of measures have been developed that estimate the usefulness of the attribute for predicting the target variable. We describe separately measures for classification (which are appropriate also for relational problems) and for regression. Most of the measures estimate the quality of...

As Model-Based Engineering (MBE) starts to be effectively used, some of its constituent disciplines such as Domain Specific Modeling and Metamodeling are becoming quite popular. Metamodels play a cornerstone role in these approaches, not only for defining Domain Specific Languages but also for specifying all kinds of artifacts involved in MBE. However, there is a lack of appropriate quality mod...