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Including widespread geometry formats in semantic graphs using RDF literals
The exchange of building data involves both geometric and non-geometric data. A promising Linked Data approach is to embed data from existing geometry formats inside Resource Description Framework (RDF) literals. Based on a study of relevant specifications and related work, this toolset-independent approach was found suitable for the exchange of geometric construction data. To implement the approach in practice, the File Ontology for Geometry formats (FOG) and accompanying modelling method is developed. In a proof-of-concept web application that uses FOG, is demonstrated how geometry descriptions of different existing formats are automatically recognised and parsed
Intellectual Property Law and the Right to Repair
This Article posits that intellectual property law should accommodate consumers’ right to repair their products. In recent years, there has been a growing push towards state legislation that would provide consumers with a “right to repair” their products. Currently, twenty states have pending legislation that would require product manufacturers to make available replacement parts and repair manuals. Unfortunately, though, this legislation has stalled in many of the states. Manufacturers have been lobbying the legislatures to stop the enactment of these repair laws based on different concerns, including how these laws may impinge on their intellectual property rights. Indeed, a right to repair may not be easily reconcilable with the United States’ far-reaching intellectual property rights regime. For example, requiring manufacturers to release repair manuals could implicate a whole host of intellectual property laws, including trade secrets. Similarly, employing measures that undercut a manufacturer’s control of the market for replacement parts might conflict with patent exclusivity. Nonetheless, this Article holds that intellectual property laws should not be used to prevent a right to repair from being fully implemented. In support of this claim, this Article develops a theoretical framework that justifies a right to repair in a manner that is consistent with intellectual property protection. Based on this theoretical foundation, this Article then explores, for the first time, the various intellectual property rules and doctrines that may be implicated in the context of the current repair movement. As part of this analysis, this Article identifies areas where intellectual property rights could prevent repair laws from being fully realized, even if some of the states pass the legislation, and recommends certain reforms that are necessary to accommodate the need for a right to repair and enable it to take hold
PRISE: An Integrated Platform for Research and Teaching of Critical Embedded Systems
In this paper, we present PRISE, an integrated workbench for Research and Teaching of critical embedded systems at ISAE, the French Institute for Space and Aeronautics Engineering. PRISE is built around state-of-the-art technologies for the engineering of space and avionics systems used in Space and Avionics domain. It aims at demonstrating key aspects of critical, real-time, embedded systems used in the transport industry, but also validating new scientific contributions for the engineering of software functions. PRISE combines embedded and simulation platforms, and modeling tools. This platform is available for both research and teaching. Being built around widely used commercial and open source software; PRISE aims at being a reference platform for our teaching and research activities at ISAE
Context-aware adaptation in DySCAS
DySCAS is a dynamically self-configuring middleware for automotive control systems. The addition of autonomic, context-aware dynamic configuration to automotive control systems brings a potential for a wide range of benefits in terms of robustness, flexibility, upgrading etc. However, the automotive systems represent a particularly challenging domain for the deployment of autonomics concepts, having a combination of real-time performance constraints, severe resource limitations, safety-critical aspects and cost pressures. For these reasons current systems are statically configured. This paper describes the dynamic run-time configuration aspects of DySCAS and focuses on the extent to which context-aware adaptation has been achieved in DySCAS, and the ways in which the various design and implementation challenges are met
International conference on software engineering and knowledge engineering: Session chair
The Thirtieth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2018) will be held at the Hotel Pullman, San Francisco Bay, USA, from July 1 to July 3, 2018. SEKE2018 will also be dedicated in memory of Professor Lofti Zadeh, a great scholar, pioneer and leader in fuzzy sets theory and soft computing.
The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software engineering or knowledge engineering or both. Special emphasis will be put on the transference of methods between both domains. The theme this year is soft computing in software engineering & knowledge engineering. Submission of papers and demos are both welcome
An infrared-submillimeter study of star-forming regions selected by the ISOSS 170um survey
Using the ISOPHOT Serendipity Survey (ISOSS) at 170um a sample of galactic
star-forming regions exhibiting very cold dust temperatures (< 20 K) and high
masses (> 100 M_sun) has been established. We characterise the star-forming
content of five regions that were selected as potential sites for early stage
high-mass star formation using SCUBA (JCMT) and Spitzer observations. In every
region we identify one to four submillimeter clumps with projected sizes
between 0.1 and 0.4 pc. The dust temperatures range from 11.6 to 21.3 K and the
estimated clump masses are 2 to 166 M_sun. Towards the majority of
submillimeter peaks we find point sources in the near- to mid-infrared. Most
are interpreted as low-mass young stellar objects but we also detect very red
sources. They probably represent very young and deeply embedded protostars that
continue to accrete clump material and may reach higher masses. Several
candidate intermediate-mass proto- or pre-main-sequence stars embedded in the
clumps are identified. A subset of four clumps may be massive enough (> 100
M_sun) to form high-mass stars and accompanying clusters. The absence of
stellar precursors with current masses in the high-mass regime leave the type
of star formation occuring in the clumps unsettled. We confirm the presence of
large fractions of cold material as derived from large-scale far-infrared
measurements which dominates the emission of most clumps and suggests that the
star-forming process will continue.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&
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