One of the frustrations of life for those who seek change, is the slow pace of reform. Policy reform in arts and culture is no exception. Governments offer promises, but they seem to take forever to arrive, and are often watered down when they do. Why is this so? We have no shortage of policies, Acts, discussion papers and other worthy documents telling us how things could change, but there is ...

One method of engaging secondary students in mathematics classes is through taking a real world modelling approach to teaching, beginning in the middle years (Years 8/9) and developing students’ modelling abilities into the senior secondary years. This chapter documents a case study in an Australian secondary school where such an approach is being established. The purpose is to provide an appro...

In every aspect of today's professional and private life, information becomes the key to planning, decision making and cooperation. The current widely used databases have been developed for the storing and handling of business data of record and/or table format. Other types of data typically have to be stored in le systems of various complexities. Over the last ten years this deecit of database...

This paper describes a system of terminological extraction capable of handling multi-word expressions, using a powerful syntactic parser. The system includes a concordancing tool enabling the user to display the context of the collocation, i.e. the sentence or the whole document where the collocation occurs. Since the corpora are multilingual, the system also offers an alignment mechanism for t...

The handling of conflicts in collaborative editing over hierarchical documents in peer-to-peer networks is a very important issue. In this paper we show how the multi-level editing approach that recursively applies a tombstone transformational approach over the document levels offers support for flexible conflict definition and resolution.

This paper explores a formalism for describing a wide class of multimedia document constraints. We outline the requirements on temporal logic speciication that arise from the multimedia documents application area. In particular, we highlight a canonical document example. Then we present the temporal logic formalism that we use. This formalism extends existing interval temporal logic with a numb...

A Military Message Handling System (MMHS) processes formal messages ensuring release, distribution, security, and timely delivery across national and international strategic and tactical networks. The MMHS Elements of Service are defined as a set of extensions to the ITU-T X.400 (1992) international standards and are specified in STANAG 4406 Edition 2 and ACP 123. This document specifies messag...

Objects containing the document locations for popular keywords are sufficiently large to create storage hotspots at some hosts. Since each object is assigned to a single key, DHT key based load balancing techniques are incapable of splitting the object through several hosts. Furthermore, caching techniques only reduce network load for query operations and not handling network load during insert...

XML has gained popularity for information representation, exchange and retrieval. As the XML material becomes more abundant, the ability to gain knowledge from XML sources decreases due to their heterogeneity and structural irregularity. The use of data mining techniques becomes essential to improve XML document handling. This paper discusses the capabilities and the process of applying data mi...

For the successful processing and handling of (large scale) document collections, effective information extraction methods are essential. This paper presents a framework for the semiautomatic development of rule-based information extraction applications based on the TEXTMARKER language utilizing machine learning methods. We describe the approach in detail and present the TEXTRULER system as an ...