The 21st century is round the corner. All the professional organisations are getting ready to usher it in. The present time could be considered as the most appropriate time for this national organisation of ours, to focus its attention on planning and taking necessary actions so that 21st century becomes a welcome event and not a situation of panic and alarm. The mental health professionals and...

Expansion of business onto the Internet crosses national borders and creates uncertainty as to the propriety of jurisdiction by the courts of nations and their internal political units. Analysis of jurisdiction in United States law reveals that traditional rules provide guidance for resolving the question of constitutional jurisdiction in cases that cross geopolitical lines.

Plant-pathogen interactions are an important knowledge domain within plant biotechnology, both scientifically and in economic terms. Unlike other knowledge domains within life sciences, however, semantic technologies have not been used extensively to codify it, therefore, there is a lack of axiomatic models amenable to automated integration and inference. We present the Plant-Pathogen Interacti...

In this paper we investigate the contextualized representation of events. In particular, we re-interpret the formalization of events and situations adopted in the NewsReader Event and Situation Ontology (ESO) according to the notions of context and module proposed in the Contextualized Knowledge Repositories (CKR) framework. This contextualized formalization sets the basis for exploiting logica...

From the perspective of spatial information sharing and interoperation, the concept of geo-ontology has been proposed in this paper. At first, a brief introduction to the Geo-Ontology concept has been described and the hierarchical structure of geo-ontology has also been analyzed. Then, the traditional method of ontology construction has been discussed and the existing problems have also been s...

information and communication technologies are a set of tools, machines, technical knowledge, methods and skills to be used for production, trade, processing, storage, recycling, transferring, and transport of “information”. in the globalization process, information has created the possibility for formation of various formal and informal networks by individuals, groups, and even other networks,...

This paper reports ongoing work on using an ontology as a mechanism to bridge various types of country-based information systems at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The type of geopolitical information addressed by this work include country international classifications, country names in the five FAO languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish), and...

This article aims to explain the influence of different dimensions political deliberation over two strings Nord Stream pipeline on European Union’s ability act as a unified actor with coherent strategy in realm global energy diplomacy. study concentrated four main cleavages project’s contestation: international, supranational, transatlantic and environmental. The analysis contestation implies b...