This paper presents a research project of University of Pavia that has been implemented by Business Integration Partners (BIP). The project concerns a Knowledge Base on Business and IT Processes. The Knowledge Base maps Business and related IT Processes and stores knowledge structures in different forms, such as diagrams, text, multimedia. The analyst can navigate stored information and create ...

We present a tool that, from automatically recognised names, tries to infer inter-person relations in order to present associated people on maps. Based on an in-house Named Entity Recognition tool, applied on clusters of an average of 15,000 news articles per day, in 15 different languages, we build a knowledge base that allows extracting statistical co-occurrences of persons and visualising th...

This paper is a sequel to [6], in which we introduced quadratic forms on a module over a supertropical semiring R and analyzed the set of bilinear companions of a single quadratic form V → R in case the module V is free. Any (semi)module over a semiring gives rise to what we call its minimal ordering, which is a partial order iff the semiring is “upper bound.” Any polynomial map q (or quadratic...

A Banach space X has the complete continuity property (CCP) if each bounded linear operator from L1 into X is completely continuous (i.e., maps weakly convergent sequences to norm convergent sequences). The main theorem shows that a Banach space failing the CCP has a subspace with a nite dimensional decomposition which fails the CCP. If furthermore the space has some nice local structure (such ...

We present maps of the 2008 presidential voting bases on ethnicity, income, and state, and discuss the challenges involved in statistical modeling and the graphical presentation of the results

In this paper we present a combinatorial model of sequence to shape maps. Our particular construction arises in the context of representing nucleotide interactions beyond Watson-Crick base pairs and its key feature is to replace biophysical steric by combinatorial constraints. We show that these combinatory maps produce exponentially many shapes and induce sets of sequences which contain extend...

We introduce a novel approach for computing high quality point-topoint maps among a collection of related shapes. The proposed approach takes as input a sparse set of imperfect initial maps between pairs of shapes and builds a compact data structure which implicitly encodes an improved set of maps between all pairs of shapes. These maps align well with point correspondences selected from initia...

Given natural numbers m and n, we define a deflation map from the characters of the symmetric group Smn to the characters of Sn. This map is defined by first restricting a character of Smn to the wreath product Sm oSn, and then taking the sum of the irreducible constituents of the restricted character on which the base group Sm × · · · × Sm acts trivially. We prove a combinatorial formula which...