Detection of salient regions in images is useful for object based image retrieval and browsing applications. This task can be done using methods based on the human visual attention model [1], where feature maps corresponding to color, intensity and orientation capture the corresponding salient regions. In this paper, we propose a strategy for combining the salient regions from the individual fe...

Procedural content generation (PCG) is the programmatic generation of game content using a random or pseudo-random process that results in an unpredictable range of possible gameplay spaces. This methodology brings many advantages to game developers, such as reduced memory consumption. This works presents a procedural balanced map generator for a real-time strategy game: Planet Wars. This gener...

Scholars writing books that are widely used to support teaching in higher education may be undervalued due to a lack of evidence of teaching value. Whilst sales data may give credible evidence for textbooks, it may poorly reflect educational uses of other types of books. As an alternative, this article proposes a method to automatically search for mentions of books in online academic course syl...

Automatic acquisition of inference rules for predicates has been commonly addressed by computing distributional similarity between vectors of argument words, operating at the word space level. A recent line of work, which addresses context sensitivity of rules, represented contexts in a latent topic space and computed similarity over topic vectors. We propose a novel two-level model, which comp...

This paper describes TM/XML, an XML syntax for Topic Maps that is very close to the natural, or colloquial, XML representation of the information in the topic map. It can be used to process Topic Maps data with XML tools, and integrate non-Topic Maps systems with Topic

the current article was an attempt to investigate the effect of semantic mapping strategy instruction on reading comprehension performance of efl learners. to this end, thirty homogeneous iranian intermediate efl learners attending a language school in bonab, iran, were randomly assigned to two groups, one as the experimental and the other as the control. the experimental group received instruc...

This paper deals with the existence of optimal transport maps for some optimal transport problems with a convex but non strictly convex cost. We give a decomposition strategy to address this issue. As part of our strategy, we have to treat some transport problems, of independent interest, with a convex constraint on the displacement. As an illustration of our strategy, we prove existence of opt...

A teacher must consider many details when planning and organizing a course. This paper shows how the new Topic Map computer technology can help in this process. The developed Topic Map for the CS knowledge domain is used for the analysis of introductory CS courses, but it can be also applied to other courses, including in noncomputer disciplines. Well-structured Topic Maps may become a solid ba...