While much recent progress has been made in research on fact-based question answering, our work aims to extend question-answering research in a different direction ─ to handle multiperspective question-answering tasks, i.e. question-answering tasks that require an ability to find and organize opinions in text. This paper proposes an approach to multi-perspective question answering that views th...

Collaborative robotic systems have much to gain by leveraging results from the area of multi-agent systems and in particular agent-oriented software engineering. Agent-oriented software engineering has much to gain by using collaborative robotic systems as a testbed. In this article, we propose and specify a formally grounded generic collaborative system shell for robotic systems and human oper...

As object-oriented software is modified its structure tends to degrade. The potentially large number of classes and the large number of dependencies between them can complicate the analysis and planning needed to maintain a program written in an object-oriented language. Restructuring software to improve its design can lower the cost of future changes. To ease the task of software restructuring...

Collaborative systems are becoming increasingly important, because they enable several users to work together and carry out collaboration, communication and coordination tasks. We have to highlight that, to perform these tasks, the users have to be aware of other users’ actions, usually by means of a set of awareness techniques. Usually, the specification of this set of techniques has to be don...

For intercity highway with many branches, the video data for each monitoring node is very large and it is unlikely to fuse these data without time synchronization. In this paper an object-based video reconstruction approach is presented for route-oriented tasks of intercity highway monitoring with many branches using low cost distributed video capturing devices installed on the roadside posts. ...

This paper examines the impact of managers’ social capital on managerial performance. Two dimensions of social capital are compared—the structural embeddedness (i.e., configuration) of a manager’s network of work relations and the relational embeddedness (i.e., quality) of those relations. Based on a sample of 120 product and sales managers in a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical firm, this paper prese...

Specialized tools already provide support for creation and execution of parameter sweeps. In such applications many tasks perform similar computations for varying input parameters. So far however none of these existing tools integrates well into service-oriented architectures or allows parametric modeling directly at the service interface. We address exactly this gap and demonstrate practical a...

The Pervasive Computing is embedded in the development of programmable and interactive environments, and it seeks to help the user in their daily activities. Considering that health system of the future requires the use of Pervasive Computing to optimize and automate clinical activities, this paper presents the architecture ClinicSpace, demonstrating through a problem 1 UNIPAMPA, Avenida Tiaraj...

This paper presents our tool set implementation for scenario-based multithreading of object-oriented real-time models and an accompanying experimental validation. Our tools enable the automated, schedulability-aware implementation of real-time object-oriented models, exploiting an existing CASE tool. Our implementation is facilitated by (1) our customized run-time system modified to support sce...

Although achievements have been made in research on robotic construction for specific tasks, robots are still not capable of working together to accomplish multiple tasks. To achieve this goal it is necessary study how realize robot coordination prefabricated construction. In paper, we propose a component-oriented approach. Using the smart object (SCO) approach, diverse tasks assigned by assign...