Pub Date : 2016-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2016070101
A. Dingli, M. Attard
This paper highlights the concepts behind the Valletta Travel Information Service VaTIS Project, an intelligent information system capable of harvesting data from a road pricing system using automatic number plate recognition ANPR technology and low cost sensors installed throughout the city of Valletta, Malta. In this paper, we describe the different elements of VaTIS and report on the first phase of the system, which has already been implemented using data from the camera system in place in Valletta and secondary data on travel behaviour to the city. Both authors act as observers, having been involved in the design and subsequent operational procedures of the road pricing system. The initial evaluation of phase 1 shows the potential benefits of smart applications and sensors for the management of travel demand and effective use of limited infrastructure and provides opportunity for further development of such applications to include user engagement and potential behaviour change.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2015070101
Alec C. Mayall, Jonathan Carter
Conceptual Structures CS have the ambitious aim of integrating the creativity of individuals and organizations with the productivity of computers to address business problems more effectively. Unfortunately, in terms of the progress and impact of CS, the practice appears to lag far behind the theory. A major reason is the inadequacy of the enterprise architecture tools that might be used to support CS. This paper introduces the Essential Project, a ten-year development program that has produced an open source enterprise architecture support toolkit with a comprehensive metamodel. In common with other enterprise architecture management suites, Essential enables users to define and describe their enterprise in terms of its current and future states. A new version, the Essential Intelligence Platform, supports inference-based analysis of the stored information and other capabilities that offer realistic support for the conceptual structures of an enterprise. This platform also serves as the launch pad for a range of business services designed to address common business problems.
{"title":"The Essential Project: Harnessing Conceptual Structures to Expose Organizational Dynamics","authors":"Alec C. Mayall, Jonathan Carter","doi":"10.4018/IJCSSA.2015070101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJCSSA.2015070101","url":null,"abstract":"Conceptual Structures CS have the ambitious aim of integrating the creativity of individuals and organizations with the productivity of computers to address business problems more effectively. Unfortunately, in terms of the progress and impact of CS, the practice appears to lag far behind the theory. A major reason is the inadequacy of the enterprise architecture tools that might be used to support CS. This paper introduces the Essential Project, a ten-year development program that has produced an open source enterprise architecture support toolkit with a comprehensive metamodel. In common with other enterprise architecture management suites, Essential enables users to define and describe their enterprise in terms of its current and future states. A new version, the Essential Intelligence Platform, supports inference-based analysis of the stored information and other capabilities that offer realistic support for the conceptual structures of an enterprise. This platform also serves as the launch pad for a range of business services designed to address common business problems.","PeriodicalId":277615,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Concept. Struct. Smart Appl.","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121799405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2015070102
Nwagwu Honour Chika, Constantinos Orphanides
Visual analysis has witnessed a growing acceptance as a method of scientific inquiry in the research community. It is used in qualitative and mixed research methods. Even so, visual data analysis is likely to produce biased results when used in analysing a large and noisy dataset. This can be evident when a data analyst is not able to holistically explore, all the values associated with the objects of interest in a dataset. Consequently, the data analyst may assess inconsistent data as consistent when contradiction associated with the data is not visualised. This work identifies incomplete analysis as a challenge in the visual data analysis of a large and noisy dataset. It considers Formal Concept Analysis FCA tools and techniques and prescribes the mining and visualisation of Incomplete or Inconsistent Data IID when dealing with a large and noisy dataset. It presents an automated approach for transforming IID from a noisy context whose objects are associated with mutually exclusive many-valued attributes, to a formal context.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2015070103
Ramin Tavakoli Kolagari, De-Jiu Chen, A. Lanusse, R. Librino, Henrik Lönn, Nidhal Mahmud, C. Mraidha, Mark-Oliver Reiser, Sandra Torchiaro, S. Piergiovanni, Tobias Wägemann, N. Yakymets
Modern cars have turned into complex high-technology products, subject to strict safety and timingrequirements, in a short time span. This evolution has translated into development processes that a ...
{"title":"Model-Based Analysis and Engineering of Automotive Architectures with EAST-ADL: Revisited","authors":"Ramin Tavakoli Kolagari, De-Jiu Chen, A. Lanusse, R. Librino, Henrik Lönn, Nidhal Mahmud, C. Mraidha, Mark-Oliver Reiser, Sandra Torchiaro, S. Piergiovanni, Tobias Wägemann, N. Yakymets","doi":"10.4018/IJCSSA.2015070103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJCSSA.2015070103","url":null,"abstract":"Modern cars have turned into complex high-technology products, subject to strict safety and timingrequirements, in a short time span. This evolution has translated into development processes that a ...","PeriodicalId":277615,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Concept. Struct. Smart Appl.","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124473715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070102
A. Malafeev
This manuscript presents an approach to the automatic generation of open cloze exercises based on arbitrary English text. The exercise format is similar to the open cloze test used in Cambridge English certificate exams FCE, CAE, CPE. The presented method also makes it possible to adjust the difficulty of the resulting exercises to better suit specific proficiency levels. Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the usefulness of the machine-generated exercises, compare them with authentic Cambridge English tests and study the difficulty-setting capabilities. The experiments showed that the generation method used was quite effective. With some customization, the method can be applied to generating similar exercises for other languages.
{"title":"Language Exercise Generation: Emulating Cambridge Open Cloze","authors":"A. Malafeev","doi":"10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070102","url":null,"abstract":"This manuscript presents an approach to the automatic generation of open cloze exercises based on arbitrary English text. The exercise format is similar to the open cloze test used in Cambridge English certificate exams FCE, CAE, CPE. The presented method also makes it possible to adjust the difficulty of the resulting exercises to better suit specific proficiency levels. Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the usefulness of the machine-generated exercises, compare them with authentic Cambridge English tests and study the difficulty-setting capabilities. The experiments showed that the generation method used was quite effective. With some customization, the method can be applied to generating similar exercises for other languages.","PeriodicalId":277615,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Concept. Struct. Smart Appl.","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115692908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070103
V. Chernousov, A. Savchenko
In this paper the authors focus on the specific problem of machine vision, namely, the video-based detection of the moving forklift truck. It is shown that the detection quality of the state-of-the-art local descriptors SURF, SIFT, etc. is not satisfactory if the resolution is low and the illumination is changed dramatically. The authors propose a novel algorithm to detect the presence of a cargo on the forklift truck on the basis of the mathematical morphological operators. At first, the movement direction is estimated with the updating motion history image method and the front part of the moving object is obtained. Next, contours are detected and the morphological operations in front of the moving object are used to compute several geometric features of an empty forklift. In the experimental study, it has been shown that the proposed method has 40% lower false positive rate and 27% lower false negative rate in comparison with conventional matching of local descriptors. Moreover, this algorithm is 7-35 times faster.
{"title":"Noise Resistant Morphological Algorithm of Moving Forklift Truck Detection on Noisy Image Data","authors":"V. Chernousov, A. Savchenko","doi":"10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070103","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the authors focus on the specific problem of machine vision, namely, the video-based detection of the moving forklift truck. It is shown that the detection quality of the state-of-the-art local descriptors SURF, SIFT, etc. is not satisfactory if the resolution is low and the illumination is changed dramatically. The authors propose a novel algorithm to detect the presence of a cargo on the forklift truck on the basis of the mathematical morphological operators. At first, the movement direction is estimated with the updating motion history image method and the front part of the moving object is obtained. Next, contours are detected and the morphological operations in front of the moving object are used to compute several geometric features of an empty forklift. In the experimental study, it has been shown that the proposed method has 40% lower false positive rate and 27% lower false negative rate in comparison with conventional matching of local descriptors. Moreover, this algorithm is 7-35 times faster.","PeriodicalId":277615,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Concept. Struct. Smart Appl.","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124020046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070104
Sabino Miranda-Jiménez, Alexander Gelbukh, G. Sidorov
In this paper, a conceptual graph-based framework for summarizing short texts is proposed. A semantic representation is implemented through conceptual graph structures that consist of concepts and conceptual relations that stand for texts. To summarize conceptual graphs, the most important nodes are selected using a set of operations: generalization, association, ranking, and pruning, which are described. The importance of nodes on weighted conceptual graphs is measured using a modified version of HITS algorithm. In addition, some heuristic rules are used to keep coherent structures based on information from WordNet hierarchy of concepts and VerbNet semantic patterns of verbs. The experimental results show that this approach is effective in summarizing short texts.
{"title":"Conceptual Graphs as Framework for Summarizing Short Texts","authors":"Sabino Miranda-Jiménez, Alexander Gelbukh, G. Sidorov","doi":"10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070104","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a conceptual graph-based framework for summarizing short texts is proposed. A semantic representation is implemented through conceptual graph structures that consist of concepts and conceptual relations that stand for texts. To summarize conceptual graphs, the most important nodes are selected using a set of operations: generalization, association, ranking, and pruning, which are described. The importance of nodes on weighted conceptual graphs is measured using a modified version of HITS algorithm. In addition, some heuristic rules are used to keep coherent structures based on information from WordNet hierarchy of concepts and VerbNet semantic patterns of verbs. The experimental results show that this approach is effective in summarizing short texts.","PeriodicalId":277615,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Concept. Struct. Smart Appl.","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122312196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070101
H. Delugach
Practitioners using conceptual graphs are naturally interested in tools that support its features. The CharGer editing software has been available for many years, giving the community a chance to evaluate and contribute to CharGer's ever-expanding capabilities. As result of that experience, the author discusses a few lessons learned about visualization and implementation of conceptual graphs. Features such as actors, glossary integration, standards-based interoperability and automatic layout offer opportunities to study and improve the usefulness of conceptual graphs tools.
{"title":"Implementation and Visualization of Conceptual Graphs in CharGer","authors":"H. Delugach","doi":"10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070101","url":null,"abstract":"Practitioners using conceptual graphs are naturally interested in tools that support its features. The CharGer editing software has been available for many years, giving the community a chance to evaluate and contribute to CharGer's ever-expanding capabilities. As result of that experience, the author discusses a few lessons learned about visualization and implementation of conceptual graphs. Features such as actors, glossary integration, standards-based interoperability and automatic layout offer opportunities to study and improve the usefulness of conceptual graphs tools.","PeriodicalId":277615,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Concept. Struct. Smart Appl.","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124587284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-07-01DOI: 10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070105
S. Polovina, Simon Andrews, Babak Akhgar, A. Staniforth, D. Fortune
There is a need for further integration of information systems globally for tackling Serious Organised Economic Crime SOEC. Taking Europe as the illustration, and levering existing pan-EU European Union systems such as Europol's SIENA and the FIU.NET as well as national systems, further steps can be taken to provide a more coherent and coordinated approach for detecting and deterring SOEC. This aim is achievable through the EMPRISES framework, which adds value to national, SIENA and FIU.NET systems by increasing the effectiveness of communication across Europe. EMPRISES would introduce an agreed common language taxonomy of SOEC, including multi-lingual support. Moreover, by enriching the taxonomy with current business tools and analysis techniques through the SOEC Architecture that EMPRISES embodies, the illegitimate businesses of SOEC can be monitored and combatted.
{"title":"The EMPRISES pan-European Framework: Monitoring and Combatting Serious Organised Economic Crime","authors":"S. Polovina, Simon Andrews, Babak Akhgar, A. Staniforth, D. Fortune","doi":"10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJCSSA.2014070105","url":null,"abstract":"There is a need for further integration of information systems globally for tackling Serious Organised Economic Crime SOEC. Taking Europe as the illustration, and levering existing pan-EU European Union systems such as Europol's SIENA and the FIU.NET as well as national systems, further steps can be taken to provide a more coherent and coordinated approach for detecting and deterring SOEC. This aim is achievable through the EMPRISES framework, which adds value to national, SIENA and FIU.NET systems by increasing the effectiveness of communication across Europe. EMPRISES would introduce an agreed common language taxonomy of SOEC, including multi-lingual support. Moreover, by enriching the taxonomy with current business tools and analysis techniques through the SOEC Architecture that EMPRISES embodies, the illegitimate businesses of SOEC can be monitored and combatted.","PeriodicalId":277615,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Concept. Struct. Smart Appl.","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124775857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-07-01DOI: 10.4018/ijcssa.2013070101
R. Behringer, P. Øhrstrøm
The EuroPLOT project 2010-2013 has developed Persuasive Learning and Technologies PLOTs and has evaluated them in four real-world case studies, which cover the widely different teaching scenarios of university education, adult learning in industry, informal learning at a museum, literature studies, and language learning. At the International Workshop of EuroPLOT Persuasive Technology for Learning, Education and Teaching IWEPLET 2013, the results of the project were presented, and an overview of related research was given. One of the main conclusions of EuroPLOT has been that the specific learning context has to be considered when applying persuasive designs. At IWEPLET 2013, both the theoretical background as well as evaluations of persuasive technology demonstrations were presented. This paper provides an overview of these presentations.
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