The value that social web is adding is undeniable. However, social web is coming at a cost: the so-called "closed" web. Slowly but steadily, a growing portion of internet activity is confined within the spaces of social networking sites (SNS) or platforms that encompass social networking capabilities by default. Furthermore, due to their competitive stance between one another, conceptually comm...

Recently, we took part in a project with two local companies about the creation of a UML-based Model Driven rigorous method to develop VECM-based systems. VECM is a way to abstract from the details of different Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems used within the same organization. This report details the experience made using our method to develop V-Protocol: a system able to protocol, ...

To integrate dynamic model based climate controlling in real-time with an environmental control computer a system integration interfacedBipsArchdwas developed. The three main objectives were: (1) to supply standard routines for communication with the environmental control computer. (2) to establish a set of databases to represent the current informational environment for the greenhouse. (3) to ...

S. Hinkelman D. Buddenbaum L.-J. Zhang Extensible Markup Language (XML) has emerged as the predominant non-binary information format. The impact of XML has been most strongly felt in information exchange environments and information modeling. This paper focuses on a set of innovative patterns that has emerged in the use of XML for information modeling and business content design in the health-c...

Seit einigen Jahren ist der aid infodienst mit unterschiedlichen Internetauftritten im Internet präsent. Die Seite www.aid.de bietet neben der Unternehmensdarstellung aktuelle Inhalte aus den Bereichen Ernährung und Landwirtschaft sowie ein aktuelles Presseinfo. Der integrierte Medienshop bietet die Möglichkeit einer Online-Bestellung aus dem kompletten Medienangebot des aid. Das Internetportal...

A model for multi-agent negotiation under time constraints on an agent-based marketplace for personnel acquisition is presented. In the situation under consideration agents have contradictory aims and multi-lateral negotiation is chosen as the most suitable form for agents’ co-ordination. Negotiation issues and negotiation strategies are discussed first. Then the general case of multi-lateral n...

Background subtraction is an important first step for video analysis, where it is used to discover the objects of interest for further processing. Such an algorithm often consists of a background model and a regularisation scheme. The background model determines a perpixel measure of if a pixel belongs to the background or the foreground, whilst the regularisation brings in information from adj...

Belarusian State University is currently developing the educational and research web portal of nuclear knowledge BelNET (Be-larusian Nuclear Education and Training Portal). In the future, this specialized electronic portal could grow into a national portal of nuclear knowledge. The concept, structure and taxonomy of Bel-NET portal are developed. The requirements and conditions for its functioni...

On the basis of analyzing the characteristics of content components in the current distance education technology specifications, this paper puts forward an Open Content Object model for the Web-based learning content by extending the Sharable Content Object (SCO) of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) which was established by the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) of the Office...

In order to effectively integrate multimodal information and multilayer constraints, we present a unified probabilistic framework for sports video analysis. Based the framework, three instances of statistical models are constructed and compared. Experimental results indicate our method with multimodal fusion processes semantic events in sports video more effectively.