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A Collaborative System Software Solution for Modeling Business Flows Based on Automated Semantic Web Service Composition
Nowadays, business interoperability is one of the key factors for assuring competitive advantage for the participant business partners. In order to implement business cooperation, scalable, distributed and portable collaborative systems have to be implemented. This article presents some of the mostly used technologies in this field. Furthermore, it presents a software application architecture based on Business Process Modeling Notation standard and automated semantic web service coupling for modeling business flow in a collaborative manner. The main business processes will be represented in a single, hierarchic flow diagram. Each element of the diagram will represent calls to semantic web services. The business logic (the business rules and constraints) will be structured with the help of OWL (Ontology Web Language). Moreover, OWL will also be used to create the semantic web service specifications.automated service coupling, business ontology, semantic web, BPMN, semantic web
ICS Materials. Towards a re-Interpretation of material qualities through interactive, connected, and smart materials.
The domain of materials for design is changing under the influence of an increased technological
advancement, miniaturization and democratization. Materials are becoming connected,
augmented, computational, interactive, active, responsive, and dynamic. These are ICS
Materials, an acronym that stands for Interactive, Connected and Smart. While labs around the
world are experimenting with these new materials, there is the need to reflect on their
potentials and impact on design. This paper is a first step in this direction: to interpret and
describe the qualities of ICS materials, considering their experiential pattern, their expressive sensorial dimension, and their aesthetic of interaction. Through case studies, we analyse and classify these emerging ICS Materials and identified common characteristics, and challenges, e.g. the ability to change over time or their programmability by the designers and users. On that basis, we argue there is the need to reframe and redesign existing models to describe ICS materials, making their qualities emerge
Review on recent advances in information mining from big consumer opinion data for product design
In this paper, based on more than ten years' studies on this dedicated research thrust, a comprehensive review concerning information mining from big consumer opinion data in order to assist product design is presented. First, the research background and the essential terminologies regarding online consumer opinion data are introduced. Next, studies concerning information extraction and information utilization of big consumer opinion data for product design are reviewed. Studies on information extraction of big consumer opinion data are explained from various perspectives, including data acquisition, opinion target recognition, feature identification and sentiment analysis, opinion summarization and sampling, etc. Reviews on information utilization of big consumer opinion data for product design are explored in terms of how to extract critical customer needs from big consumer opinion data, how to connect the voice of the customers with product design, how to make effective comparisons and reasonable ranking on similar products, how to identify ever-evolving customer concerns efficiently, and so on. Furthermore, significant and practical aspects of research trends are highlighted for future studies. This survey will facilitate researchers and practitioners to understand the latest development of relevant studies and applications centered on how big consumer opinion data can be processed, analyzed, and exploited in aiding product design
ConceptEVA: Concept-Based Interactive Exploration and Customization of Document Summaries
With the most advanced natural language processing and artificial
intelligence approaches, effective summarization of long and multi-topic
documents -- such as academic papers -- for readers from different domains
still remains a challenge. To address this, we introduce ConceptEVA, a
mixed-initiative approach to generate, evaluate, and customize summaries for
long and multi-topic documents. ConceptEVA incorporates a custom multi-task
longformer encoder decoder to summarize longer documents. Interactive
visualizations of document concepts as a network reflecting both semantic
relatedness and co-occurrence help users focus on concepts of interest. The
user can select these concepts and automatically update the summary to
emphasize them. We present two iterations of ConceptEVA evaluated through an
expert review and a within-subjects study. We find that participants'
satisfaction with customized summaries through ConceptEVA is higher than their
own manually-generated summary, while incorporating critique into the summaries
proved challenging. Based on our findings, we make recommendations for
designing summarization systems incorporating mixed-initiative interactions.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure
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