Distributed systems are inherently complex, and therefore difficult to design and develop. Experience shows that new technologies—such as components, aspects, and application f...
Often the process and effort in building interoperable Command and Control (C2) systems and simulations can be arduous. Invariably the difficulty is in understanding what is inten...
As the trend towards technology-enriched home environments progresses, the need to enable users to create applications to suit their own lives increases. While several recent proje...
In this paper, we focus on lexical semantics, a key issue in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that tends to converge with conceptual Knowledge Representation (KR) and ontologies....
The categorization of our environment into feature types is an essential prerequisite for cartography, geographic information retrieval, routing applications, spatial decision supp...