Command Forces (CFOR) is a concept that incorporates explicit modeling of battlefield command and control (C2) in virtual simulation. CFOR extends the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) architecture by adding a new class of DIS entities (command entities) and explicit representation of the information exchanged among these entities (Command and Control Simulation Interface Language). Comm...

the primary focus of the present study is to review organization analysis models from the standpoint of marketing and to propose an appropriate model for information centers and entities. a detailed literature review is made concerning marketing concepts, principles and services with respect to information organizations. the second stage deals with review and study of information entities, thei...

Abstract. Estimating flood damage, although crucial for assessing risk and designing mitigation policies, continues to face numerous challenges, notably the assessment of indirect damage. It is widely accepted that damage other than direct can account a significant proportion total Yet due scarcer data sources lack knowledge on links within between economic activities, impacts have received les...

The sheer volume of user-contributed data on the Internet has motivated organizations to explore the collective business intelligence (BI) for improving business decisions making. One common problem for BI extraction is to accurately identify the entities being referred to in user-contributed comments. Although named entity recognition (NER) tools are available to identify basic entities in tex...

Trust is an essential feature of any system where entities have to collaborate among them. Trust can assist entities making decisions about what is the best entity for establishing a certain collaboration. It would be desirable to simulate behaviour of users as in social environments where they tend to establish relationships or to trust users who have common interests or share some of their op...

Methods that measure compatibility between mention pairs are currently the dominant approach to coreference. However, they suffer from a number of drawbacks including difficulties scaling to large numbers of mentions and limited representational power. As the severity of these drawbacks continue to progress with the growing demand for more data, the need to replace the pairwise approaches with ...

The scope of telephony is significantly broadening, providing users with a variety of communication modes, including presence status, instant messaging and videoconferencing. Furthermore, telephony is being increasingly combined with a number of non-telephony, heterogeneous resources, consisting of software entities, such as Web services, and hardware entities, such as location-tracking devices...