Current opinion retrieval techniques do not provide context-dependent relevant results. They use frequency of opinion words in documents or at proximity to query words, such that opinionated documents containing the words are retrieved regardless of their contextual or semantic relevance to the query topic. Thus, opinion retrieved for the qualitative analysis of products, performance measuremen...

In reply to the commentary’s of Nesse (2014), Gendolla (2014), Schweder (2014), Zachar (2014), and Clay-Warner (2014), I repeat the essential features of appraisal theories of the second flavor: They take emotional components (and not specific emotions) as the phenomenon to be explained, and they strive for a multilevel mechanistic explanation that leaves room for complex and dynamical processe...

We overview some perspectives on the concept of servicebased computing, and discuss the motivation of a small set of modeling abstractions for expressing and analyzing service based systems, which have led to the design of the Conversation Calculus. Distinguishing aspects of the Conversation Calculus are the adoption of a very simple, context sensitive, local message-passing communication mecha...

As poor data quality usually leads to high costs, managing data quality is essential for organizations. Thereby, comparing the current with the required data quality level is necessary for an effective and economics-driven data quality management. Otherwise decision makers might decide in favor of unsuitable or inefficient data quality improvement measures with respect to cost and benefit. Exis...

Prior social science research has shown that tie strength is a useful indicator of context-dependent trust in many real-world relationships. Yet, it is often challenging to gauge trust in online environments. Given a multitude of variables that represent social relationships, we explore how to visualize interpersonal tie strength to empower people to make informed, context-dependent online trus...

In this paper, we present an analysis of planning with uncertain information regarding both the state of the world and the eeects of actions using a Strips-or (propositional) Adl-style representation 4, 17]. We provide formal deenitions of plans under incomplete information and conditional plans, and describe Plinth, a conditional linear planner based on these deenitions. We also clarify the de...

By introducing a new operation, the exponentiation of formal languages, we can define Heyting algebras of formal languages. It turns out that some well known families of languages are closed under this exponentiation, e. g., the families of regular and of context-sensitive languages.

atp-sensitive potassium (katp) channel openers have a relaxation effect due to the lower cellular membrane potential and inhibit calcium influx. there has been considerable interest in exploring katp channel openers in the treatment of various diseases such as cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and urinary system disease and premature labor. the purpose of this study was to synthesize 3,3,6,6-tet...

We prove that a group has word problem that is a growing context-sensitive language precisely if its word problem can be solved using a non-deterministic Cannon's algorithm (the deterministic algorithms being defined by Goodman and Shapiro in [6]). We generalize results of [6] to find many examples of groups not admitting non-deterministic Cannon's algorithms. This adds to the examples of Kambi...

The movement of a micro cantilever was detected via a self constructed portable data acquisition prototype system which integrates a linear array of 32 1D amorphous silicon position sensitive detectors (PSD). The system was mounted on a microscope using a metal structure platform and the movement of the 30 μm wide by 400 μm long cantilever was tracked by analyzing the signals acquired by the 32...