Despite of their advertisement as task independent representations, the reuse of ontologies in different contexts is difficult. An explanation for this is that when developing an ontology, a choice is made with respect to what aspects of the world are relevant. In this paper we deal with the problem of reusing ontologies in a context where only parts of the originally encoded aspects are releva...

This paper considers the problem of solving Quadratic Programs (QPs) in the context of multi-stage Model Predictive Control (MPC). A Newton strategy is considered on the dual of the problem to achieve a parallelizable method. In this context, it has been observed that the globalization strategy can be expensive. In this paper, we propose to dualize both the nonanticipativity constraints and the...

With the progress of globalization, China is forming increasing intimate relations with other nations. However, under the context of globalization, we must know each other quite well to promote cross-cultural communication, which requires that our English education follow the multi-cultural principle. On the one hand, we should know more countries who take English as their official or foreign l...

The article deals with the problems of political and economic processes in Kazakhstan since independence in the context of globalization. It analyzes the geopolitical situation and selfpositioning processes in the world after the end of the "cold war". It examines the problems of internal economization of the Republic for 20 years of independence. The authors argue that the reforms proceeded in...

As the technology associated to the “Web Services” trend gains significant adoption, the need for a corresponding design approach becomes increasingly important. This paper introduces a foundational model for designing (composite) services. The innovation of this model lies in the identification of four interrelated viewpoints (interface behaviour, provider behaviour, choreography, and orchestr...

An interactive information retrieval system that provides different types of summaries of retrieved documents according to each user’s information needs can be effective for understanding the contents. The purpose of this study is to build a multi-document summarizer to produce summaries according to such viewpoints. As an exploratory stage of investigation, we examined the effectiveness of gen...

This dissertation addresses the task of detecting instances of object categories in photographs. We propose modeling an object category as a collection of object parts linked together in a deformable configuration. We propose two different approaches to model the appearance of object parts that provide robustness to intra-class variations and viewpoint change. The first approach models object p...

Recent approaches to service-oriented systems engineering start by capturing the interactions between services from the perspective of a global observer, leading to so-called service choreographies. The rationale is that such choreographies allow stakeholders to agree on the overall structure and behaviour of the system prior to developing new services or adapting existing ones. However, existi...

Observing the trend that drugs have become more standardized and globalized in the past decade, this paper looks at how East Asia has responded to this change. Considered both as powerful commodities and scientific advancements designed to improve people's health, pharmaceuticals make for a globally interesting narrative subject compared to other products. This also merits an anthropological in...