The Integrated Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (iiCALL) environment is a Web-based e-learning platform that enables language learning in common working environments like Web browsers or email clients. Business logic and language issues ...

A mobile agent is an autonomous software module that can migrate between different computers. A mobile agent is designed and implemented like a human, and mobile agents work together by interactions among them like a human community. Thus, a mobile ...

Agent-based Ontology Alignment Negotiation processes aims to generate an alignment through the interaction of two or more agents. When these agents exploit different matching services they can reach incompatible alignments, giving rise to conflicts ...

Following the results achieved during our previous research, which demonstrated the importance of using adequate ontology alignments during agents' communications, we have proposed a new approach for ontology alignment negotiation where, rather than ...

In search advertising, advertisers should carefully compose keywords in order to enhance the opportunity for ads to be clicked. Thus, timely presenting proper advertisements to users will encourage them to click on search ads. Until now, how to ...

Industrial manufacturing environments are typically supported by a backbone network of technical control- and business information systems. To carry out daily work routines like maintaining technical processes or managing business information like sales ...

The transition to cloud computing requires a certain effort since the development of applications for the Cloud requires programming skills and knowledge about the several programming models, APIs provided by Cloud vendors and cloud patterns to fit the ...

DBpedia knowledge base extracts structured information from Wikipedia pages and makes them accessible on the Web. In the past few years, the efforts of DBpedia internationalization (i18n) were effective and many localized DBpedia are now available to ...

Nowadays, the advance of social media has led to the explosive growth of opinion data. Therefore, sentiment analysis has attracted a lot of attentions. Currently, sentiment analysis applications are divided into two main approaches, the lexicon-based ...

This paper presents a semantic policy adaptation technique and its applications in the context of smart building setups. We study how semantic rules which are created for one set of contextual conditions are affected when one of the context parameters ...

Huge amounts of textual information relevant for market analysis, trending or product monitoring can be found on the Web. To exploit that knowledge a number of extraction services were proposed that extract and categorize entities from given text. Prior ...

In this paper we present an extensible framework for Web-based language learning. At the client side we make extensive use of augmented browsing technology to accommodate various language education approaches with an emphasis on incidental language ...