Current data integration approaches are mostly limited to few data sources, partly due to the use of binary match approaches between pairs of sources. We thus advocate for the development of more holistic, clustering-based data integration approaches that scale to many data sources. We outline different use cases and provide an overview of initial approaches for holistic schema/ontology integra...

The interconnection of the three organismic levels, metabolism, morphology, and biogeography, can now be amplified into a multipart architecture, introducing plant bioactivity through ethnobotany-oriented descriptions. Only via such an integrative model, the diverse organismic levels can be connected within a more holistic, realistic scheme. Construction of qualitative and quantitative models v...

In this paper quantum bases of consciousness are considered with psychosomatic implications of three front lines of psychosomatic medicine (hesychastic spirituality, holistic Eastern medicine, and symptomatic Western medicine), as well as cognitive implications of two modes of individual consciousness (quantum-coherent transitional and altered states, and classically-reduced normal states) alon...

The best extant statement of the epistemic regress problem makes assumptions that are too strong. An improved version assumes only that that reasons require support, that no proposition is supported only by endless regresses of reasons, and that some proposition is supported. These assumptions are individually plausible but jointly inconsistent. Attempts to explain support by means of unconcept...

In this position paper we present the FP7 ERC starting grant project iHEARu (Intelligent systems’ Holistic Evolving Analysis of Real-life Universal speaker characteristics). This project addresses several fundamental shortcomings in state of the art methods for computational paralinguistics, by introducing holistic analysis, evolving learning of features and models, and collection of real-life,...

A process for prototyping whole services rather than individual parts in isolation is needed. Prototyping services is different from prototyping physical products, yet many designers still use traditional approaches to prototype services, focussing on specific parts rather than whole services. This is especially surprising considering the descriptions of service design as a holistic approach in...

Coreference resolution and semantic role labeling are NLP tasks that capture different aspects of semantics, indicating respectively, which expressions refer to the same entity, what roles serve in sentence. However, they often closely interdependent, both generally necessitate natural language understanding. Do form a coherent abstract representation documents? We present neural network archit...

Chromatin structure and dynamics control all aspects of DNA biology yet are poorly understood, especially at large length scales. We developed an approach, displacement correlation spectroscopy based on time-resolved image correlation analysis, to map chromatin dynamics simultaneously across the whole nucleus in cultured human cells. This method revealed that chromatin movement was coherent acr...

Shared memory is an appealing abstraction for parallel programming. It must be implemented with caches in order to perform well, however, and caches require a coherence mechanism to ensure that processors reference current data. Hardware coherence mechanisms for large-scale machines are complex and costly, but existing software mechanisms for message-passing machines have not provided a perform...