The rapid development of social video sharing platforms has created a huge demand for automatic video classification and annotation techniques, in particular for videos containing social activities of a group of people (e.g. YouTube video of a wedding reception). Recently, attribute learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for transferring learning to sparsely labelled classes in object or ...

Task-based computing paradigm enables new kinds of mobile applications which are composed by networking services and heterogeneous resources. These applications use explicit user task descriptions to bind resources at runtime, thus making it easier to achieve application adaptation in changing context. In this paper, we will present an algorithm for application composition which performs resour...

A key application area of semantic technologies is the fast-developing field of bioinformatics. However, a gap exists between the computer literacy of biologists using bioinformatics tools and the computer scientists developing them. Tools such as Taverna provide a graphical user interface for creating biological workflows using web services and semantic technologies. However, these tools are a...

The need to use position-dependent parameters often hampers the definition of flexible, extensible, and reusable abstractions for software composition. This observation has led us to explore the concept of forms, which are first-class extensible records and that, in combination with a small set of purely asymmetric operators, provide a core language to address this issue. One interesting applic...

Both resting state fMRI (R-fMRI) and task-based fMRI (T-fMRI) have been widely used to study the functional activities of the human brain during task-free and task-performance periods, respectively. However, due to the difficulty in strictly controlling the participating subject's mental status and their cognitive behaviors during fMRI scans, it has been very challenging to tell whether or not ...

expansive behavior is usually observed in soils, which contain fractions of clay minerals in their composition. water absorption of clay particles and change of natural water content of soil up to plastic limit and down to shrinkage limit will cause significant volume change in expansive soils and will result in severe damages to the structures, buildings and foundations. swelling potential is ...

In the Language Grid, automatically composing Web services is a crucial task. This task involves vertical and horizontal composition. Vertical composition consists of defining an appropriate combination of simple processes to perform a composition task. Horizontal composition consists of determining the most appropriate Web service from among a set of functionally equivalent ones for each compo...