XML is a popular standard for structured-data transfer using plain text. The tag-set and structures must be defined for each particular application, such as geology. Developing the tag-set thus requires design of an application-domain data-model, which is then serialised as a schema document. A general data-model for geospatial information has been developed and standardised through ISO. The fe...

For mechatronic systems, accurate frequency response data (FRD) can be obtained at low cost. Controller design techniques exist that can be applied directly to FRD, e.g. classical loop-shaping. However, loop-shaping can not guarantee that the designed controller is optimal in the sense of closed-loop norm speci cations, and the closed-loop pole locations cannot be computed directly. Besides ana...

Language transfer, the preferential second language behavior caused by similarities to the speaker’s native language, requires considerable expertise to be detected by humans alone. Our goal in this work is to replace expert intervention by data-driven methods wherever possible. We define a computational methodology that produces a concise list of lexicalized syntactic patterns that are control...

Users of computer systems may often require the private transfer of messages/communications between parties across a network. Information warfare and the protection and dominance of information in the military context is a prime example of an application area in which the confidentiality of data needs to be maintained. The safe transportation of critical data is therefore often a vital requirem...

Storage, processing and transmission of very large data sets found in remotely sensed geographical information systems place heavy demands upon all aspects of a system design. The regularity of the data and the nature of the most common computational tasks allows advanced data tiling techniques to be used to good effect. A data transfer API which uses the notion of tiles as its fundamental data...