This demo presents a principled approach to the problems of data-centric human/machine computations with Crowd4U, a crowdsourcing platform equipped with a suite of tools for rapid development of crowdsourcing applications. Using the demo, we show that declarative database abstraction can be used as a powerful tool to design, implement, and analyze data-centric crowdsourcing applications. The po...

The paper investigates the application of Halliday’s theory of transitivity in the construction of personality. The essay aims to identify and explain how the main character’s personality is portrayed and represented through language used in Hoa Pham’s “Heroic Mother”. The findings hope to prove that linguistic choices in transitivity play an important role in building up the main character of ...

Words to express relations in natural language (NL) statements may be different from those to represent properties in knowledge bases (KB). The vocabulary gap becomes barriers for knowledge base construction and retrieval. With the demo system called NL2KB in this paper, users can browse which properties in KB side may be mapped to for a given relational pattern in NL side. Besides, they can re...

We present an interactive demo that illustrates the performance of our multi-agent-based system for trading ’green’ energy. The system implements the NRG-X-Change concept and uses real-life data for energy consumption. NRG-X-Change encourages prosumers to locally trade their excess of energy while payments are carried out using NRGcoins, which is a novel decentralized digital currency. We illus...

In this paper, we give a recount of the application of Sensoria approaches, languages, and tools to the modeling of movement of the robot that has taken the lead role in Sensoria demonstrations at the exhibitions ICT 2008 in Lyon and FET 2009 in Prague. The demos were centred around a robot-bowling game that actively involved the visitors in programming a robot that plays bowling, using some of...

You can run the first part of the demo which corresponds to the introduction part (i.e. until the first two figures are displayed). The first figure shows the two original images as well as the superimposition of the two. To drive the registration (also called the warping) of the source image to the target image, we select pairs of corresponding landmarks in each image, which are shown in the s...

Annotations play an increasingly crucial role in scientific exploration and discovery, as the amount of data and the level of collaboration among scientists increases. Although all such systems are implemented to take user input (i.e., the annotations themselves), very few systems are user-centric, taking into account user preferences on how annotations should propagate and be applied over data...

We demonstrate RECAP, a tool that explains relatedness between entities in Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and implements a query by relatedness paradigm that allows to retrieve entities related to those in input. One of the peculiarities of RECAP is that it does not require any data preprocessing and can combine knowledge from multiple KGs. The underlying algorithmic techniques are reduced to the execu...

background: using the method “surrogacy” in which a woman accepts to bear and deliver a child for a married couple is considered as a subsidiary method in infertility therapy. this method is relatively new in iran. objective: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the experiences of the women involved in surrogacy and to reveal some issues related to this method. materials and methods: the m...