Although techniques of computer graphics have evolved a lot during the last years, there are still genres of computer games that rely on 2D graphics, especially point-and-click adventures. Still, 3D elements can significantly improve appearance and development of 2D adventures. This work focuses on the integration of 3D characters into 2D environments as well as techniques of computer graphics ...

In recent years, there has been a rising concern about the policy of major search engines. The concern comes from search bias, which refers to the ranking of the results of a keyword search on the basis of some other principle than the sheer relevance. This search bias is also named search non-neutrality. In this paper, we analyze one non-neutral behavior, that is, a behavior that results in a ...

In order to provide unified and consistent data and functionality, enterprises need to make all their applications work in an integrated manner. However, integration has become more difficult to handle when enterprises extend their business globally, more applications are implemented for supporting business activities, and more computing paradigms are adopted, e.g., cloud, social, and mobile, j...

ARTigo is a gaming platform with two goals: The development of a semantic search engine for art works and a study on art work reception. Even though ARTigo quite successfully achieves its goals, it is so far still deficient at collecting “deep semantics” tags. This article first discusses why this is the case, then proposes two approaches we call “squaring” and “scripting” to collecting deep se...

Many model-based fault diagnosis approaches have been proposed so far and some of them are applied in industrial practice. But for modern complex processes, due to the variable nature of faults and model uncertainty, no single approach can diagnose all faults and meet different contradictory criteria. In this paper, the importance of integration of different fault diagnosis schemes in a common ...

Translational science research development requires life sciences researchers to update their concept on systems integration and data integration. The RESTful API has proven to be very useful in integrating the massive amount of data and tools. This work presents an approach for biological systems analysis based on the semantic web and RESTful API. The integration of this approach in the BioExt...

tuProlog is a Java-based Prolog engine explicitly designed to be minimal, dynamically configurable, and support full and clean Prolog/Java integration. In this paper, we discuss the tuProlog approach to Prolog/Java multi-paradigm integration. After tuProlog motivations and requirements, we present some examples of bidirectional Prolog/Java integration and discuss the model and architecture of t...

For the high speed processing of databases, it is fundamental to introduce various VLSI architectures to the processing of basic functions. Especially, sort and batch search requires high speed modules. The VLSI algorithms of them must make use of the time necessary for the transfer of a large amount of data to and from the modules. These modules should be nonprogrammable in order to avoid seri...

Better understanding pathologies-genes relationships requires semantic integration of heterogeneous information distributed in multiple ‘medical’ and ‘biological’ sources. This paper presents an ongoing project that aims at developing an information integration system providing a unified access to biomedical resources. The basic idea is to use for semantic integration the existing knowledge ava...

In this paper, we present an approach for the implementation of semantically enriched services in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). We present an integration platform based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) which consists of a service registry, a process designer and a run-time engine. There are some additional components for realizing semantic enrichment of services and composed...