The theory of military revolution is known to describe the process transformation states in Early modern period with appearance armed firearms regular armies. According Brian Downing model, this consists several successive steps. 1. starting point development medieval monarchy, where power suzerain limited meetings (conditionally, “parliaments”), aristocrats predominate, managing resources thei...

This volume contains the papers presented at ORE 2014: The 3rd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop held on July 13, 2014 in Vienna (co-located with the Vienna Summer of Logic, VSL). The committee decided to accept 11 papers (5 Evaluation and Benchmarks papers, 3 papers about a reasoner or reasoning techniques, and 3 papers describing an ontology). Each submission was reviewed by at least 3 program...

Starting with the core data engineering demonstrations, Jaber and Voronkov present UNIDOOR, a deductive object-oriented database system (DOOD). Its distinctive features include a scalable persistent store with crash recovery, and database integrity and transaction control facilities in a multi-user environment. Cabibbo, Panella and Torlone introduce DaWaII (Data Warehouse IntegratIon), a tool f...

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the 11-th IEEE International Conference on Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), we welcome you to Seoul, the capital city of Korea, which is located along the Han River. It is the world’s 10 largest city, with a population of more than 10 million. In Seoul, the past and present coexist in many fascinating ways. Centuries-old palaces, gates, shrine...

BACKGROUND Electronic educational (e-learning) technology usage continues to grow. Many medical journals operate companion blogs (an application of e-learning technology) that enable rapid dissemination of scientific knowledge and discourse. Faculty members participating in promotion and tenure academic tracks spend valuable time and effort contributing, editing, and directing these medical jou...

Advisory Committee • Usama Fayyad, Barclays Bank, UK • Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan • Rao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia • Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA • Bengchin Ooi, National University of Singapore • Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK • Philip S Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Steering Committee • Longbing Cao, University of Technolo...