Recently, Collaborative Business Process modeling (cBPM) has become very popular due to modern Business Process Management trend. It expands to cover business processes across the organizational boundaries and, thus, emerges the need of collaborative business process modeling. Business process modeling (BPM) requires many complex iterations and communications between the domain specialists and ...

Spam is commonly known as unsolicited or unwanted email messages in the Internet causing potential threat to Internet Security. Users spend a valuable amount of time deleting spam emails. More importantly, ever increasing spam emails occupy server storage space and consume network bandwidth. Keyword-based spam email filtering strategies will eventually be less successful to model spammer behavi...

The respiratory mucosa is a major coordinator of the inflammatory response in chronic airway diseases, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Signals produced by the chronic inflammatory process induce epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) that dramatically alters the epithelial cell phenotype. The effects of EMT on epigenetic reprogramming and the activation of tr...

In this chapter we suggest new models for the study of deformations of elastic media through the minimization of distortion functionals. This provides a “holistic” approach to this problem and a potential mathematical underpinning of a number of phenomena which are actually observed. The functionals we study are conformally invariant and give measures of the local anisotropic deformation of the...

Bayesian analysis provides a normative framework for use of uncertain information in decision making and inference. From a practical perspective, Bayes Theorem has a logical appeal in that it characterizes a process of knowledge updating that is based on pooling precision-weighted information. For years however, Bayesian inference was largely ignored or even discredited in favor of frequentist ...

The key to integrating a biological index to output from the SWAT/HUMUS model is to develop a relationship between the pertinent output from SWAT (nutrients and sediment) to the biological index. Wang et al. (2007) began developing the relationship between nutrients and assemblages of fish and macroinvertebrates in 240 wadeable streams in Wisconsin. From their sampling data they were able to de...

Aspect-orientation provides a new way of modularization by clearly separating crosscutting concerns from non-crosscutting ones. While aspect-orientation originally has emerged at the programming level, it now stretches also over other development phases. There are, for example, already several proposals to Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM), most of them pursuing distinguished goals, providing diff...

Many of the present problems that we are facing arise as unanticipated side-effects of our own actions. Moreover, the solutions implemented to solve important problems often create new problems. To avoid unintended consequences, understanding complex systems is essential in devising policy instruments and in improving environmental management. Thus, this thesis investigated systems modeling app...

This paper overviews Bayesian approaches in natural language processing that are becoming prominent. Without any knowledge of natural language processing, Bayesian approaches to both discriminative learning and generative modeling are described. Especially, näıve bayes and its full unsupervised Bayesian modeling, DM, and LDA are developed. These Bayesian approaches permit interesting joint mode...

Estimation of economic capital of a financial institution requires modeling of operational losses of the business units of the organization. Operational losses of the financial institution are usually represented as an aggregate sum of the losses incurred by the operational events of the business units. Simulation of these events requires the introduction of a co-dependence structure for a more...