Toward Self-Organising Service Communities

This paper discusses a framework in which catalog service communities are built, linked for interaction, and constantly monitored and adapted over time. A catalog service community (represented as a peer node in a peer-to-peer network) in our system can be viewed as domain specific data integration mediators representing the domain knowledge and the registry information. The query routing among communities is performed to identify a set of data sources that are relevant to answering a given query. The system monitors the interactions between the communities to discover patterns that may lead to restructuring of the network (e.g., irrelevant peers removed, new relationships created, etc.)

Interactive product browsing and configuration using remote augmented reality sales services

Real-time remote sales assistance is an underdeveloped component of online sales services. Solutions involving web page text chat, telephony and video support prove problematic when seeking to remotely guide customers in their sales processes, especially with configurations of physically complex artefacts. Recently, there has been great interest in the application of virtual worlds and augmented reality to create synthetic environments for remote sales of physical artefacts. However, there is a lack of analysis and development of appropriate software services to support these processes. We extend our previous work with the detailed design of configuration context services to support the management of an interactive sales session using augmented reality. We detail the context and configuration services required, presenting a novel data service streaming configuration information to the vendor for business analytics. We expect that a fully implemented configuration management service, based on our design, will improve the remote sales experience for both customers and vendors alike via analysis of the streamed information

ICT education for women

노트 : Expert Group Meeting on “Information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women” Seoul, Republic of Korea 11 to 14 November 200

Patient satisfaction and anxiety with informed consent delivered through informational video compared to the traditional physician interview [abstract]

Objective: 1. To evaluate patient satisfaction and anxiety towards informed consent with traditional physician interview compared to combination of watching an informational video and patient-specific physician interview. 2. To discover how an informational video will affect physician time management

KOREAN CONTEMPORARY ART ON BRITISH SOIL IN THE TRANSNATIONAL ERA

The question that initiated this article was: ‘What does national identity mean in this transnational era, given Okwui Enwezor’s comment that one can witness “the terrible nearness of distant places” within the globalized circuits of international exhibitions?’ It may well be that thinking about ‘difference’ would be better understood in light of these nearnesses and distances. In this article we are attuned to these spaces as a means of thinking about national identity as what is to be grappled with for a realistic rendering of cultural translation.   Starting from Walter Benjamin’s discussion of translation’s vital emphasis on there having to be a reciprocal relationship between languages, this article’s main concern lies in the cultural translation taking place in the visual. When transmitting certain meanings of artworks from one culture to another, there is no such thing as a ‘transparent’ translation between the two in the visual. As a consequence, we are led to turn to the realm of un-translatability, with all of the challenges that this presents. In this article, we intend to examine this global issue in a ‘local’ way, so it is fitting, then, to consider Korean contemporary art on British soil in terms of cultural translation.   In reading Korean art within a British context, we seek to reveal the distance between the two cultures; a cultural distance which is at once both translatable and un-translatable. To this end, we first consider the works of contemporary artists such as Chan Hyo Bae, Eem Yun Kang and U Ram Choe, who have either exhibited or are currently working in Britain. These works are utilized as examples in which the artists are seen to expose different ways of keeping their ‘transnational’ position in representing their work while being categorized as ‘Korean’. Following this, we then concentrate on two extended case studies: Nam June Paik and his nomadic way of eluding nationality by way of global resettling; and Mee Kyoung Shin’s concern with cultural translation as sculpture. We examine how, through her work, she sheds light on the translation taking place between different cultures when crossing the dubious border of ‘nationality’

Healthcare Message Design toward Social Communication: Convergence Based on Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives

The importance of communication in healthcare has gained considerable attention especially with the rise of the model of patient-centered care. There are many types of messages between healthcare providers and consumers, which is an intangible form of healthcare message design (HMD) as a medium of communication. In the role, HMD is understood as an expansion of universal communicability and plays an important role in social communication. This chapter introduces the concept of HMD based on philosophical underpinnings and theoretical frameworks and defines the process of HMD. For the work, convergence research (or transdisciplinarity, and interdisciplinarity) was conducted, which entails integrating knowledge, theories, methods, data, and expertise from different disciplines

Integrating and querying similar tables from PDF documents using deep learning

Large amount of public data produced by enterprises are in semi-structured PDF form. Tabular data extraction from reports and other published data in PDF format is of interest for various data consolidation purposes such as analysing and aggregating financial reports of a company. Queries into the structured tabular data in PDF format are normally processed in an unstructured manner through means like text-match. This is mainly due to that the binary format of PDF documents is optimized for layout and rendering and do not have great support for automated parsing of data. Moreover, even the same table type in PDF files varies in schema, row or column headers, which makes it difficult for a query plan to cover all relevant tables. This paper proposes a deep learning based method to enable SQL-like query and analysis of financial tables from annual reports in PDF format. This is achieved through table type classification and nearest row search. We demonstrate that using word embedding trained on Google news for header match clearly outperforms the text-match based approach in traditional database. We also introduce a practical system that uses this technology to query and analyse finance tables in PDF documents from various sources

Feature Engineering Using File Layout for Malware Detection

Malware detection on binary executables provides a high availability to even binaries which are not disassembled or decompiled. However, a binary-level approach could cause ambiguity problems. In this paper, we propose a new feature engineering technique that use minimal knowledge about the internal layout on a binary. The proposed feature avoids the ambiguity problems by integrating the information about the layout with structural entropy. The experimental results show that our feature improves accuracy and F1-score by 3.3% and 0.07, respectively, on a CNN based malware detector with realistic benign and malicious samples.Comment: 2pages, no figures, This manuscript was presented in the poster session of The Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 202