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Managing language diversity across cultures: the English-Mongolian case study
No full textDeveloping ontologies from scratch appears to be very expensive in terms of cost and time required and often such efforts remain unfinished for decades. Ontology localization through translation seems to be a promising approach towards addressing this issue as it enables the greater reuse of the ontological (backbone) structure. However, managing language diversity across cultures remains as a challenge that has to be taken into account and dealt with right level of attention and expertise. In this paper we report the result of our experiment that was performed with approximately 1000 concepts, taken from the space ontology originally developed in English, by providing their translation into Mongolian
Scuola e università in Italia negli anni della grande crisi ovvero la mentalità della bancarotta, tra ignoranza e inefficenza
No full textGrosso modo dal Trecento fino alla meta del Seicento i giovani dell'Europa settentrionale vennero in Italia per affinare le proprie competenze nella lavorazione delle pelli, dei legno, delle stoffe, dei vetro e delle materie preziose; vennero anche per studiare, soprattutto medicina e scienze naturali, filologia e diritto nelle università italiane, allora di grande prestigio; scesero al sud delle Alpi, per imparare le tecniche pittoriche e a scolpire il marmo, per apprendere come si lavorassero tessuti e legnami, seta e pelli, per affinarsi nell'arte musicale, per conoscere i modi di vita a corte e l'arte della conversazione dotta, per avvicinarsi al mondo dei commercio e del sistema bancario. II culmine di questo modello italiano, all'avanguardia, in Europa, fu raggiunto nel Rinascimento.
[... D]al 1648 al 1736 il sapere e le istituzioni italiane che lo promuovevano (scuole, accademie, università) erano arretrate dal primo posto all'ultimo nella graduatoria (oggi si dice: ranking) dei dotti e degli scienziati nell'Europa del Settecento
Liberalizzare e privatizzare all'italiana secondo Heinrich Hansjakob, che ne scrisse nel 1877
No full textSi fa presto a dire, oggi, privatizziamo i beni che sono
ancora "in mano dello Stato", quasi fosse costui un losco
figuro, dal quale prendere le distanze, dopo avergli tolto
il portafoglio.
Negli ultimi due decenni lo abbiamo sentito più volte
questo ritornello; abbiamo assistito anche alle vendite ai
privati di banche (Banca Commerciale, Banco di Roma,
Credito Italiano, controllate dall'IRI), di società telefoniche (Telecom), di imprese elettriche (Enel), delle Autostrade e dell'industria siderurgica (Ilva) per facilitare l'affermazione di una "vera economia di mercato", con molti concorrenti, a tutto vantaggio di noi utenti, che avremmo pagato di meno per servizi e tariffe, si diceva trionfalmente.
Sappiamo, come poi e andata a finire
Innovazione sociale - La nuova frontiera
No full textIn coincidenza con il grande momento di crisi che stiamo attraversando, è in atto un profondo cambiamento della società, paragonabile a quello che si ebbe a suo tempo con la Rivoluzione industriale. Un cambiamento alla cui base si trovano le nuove tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione (ICT). Quella che di fatto si sta delineando è la futura società della conoscenza. Un processo che si sta verificando in tempi così rapidi, subgenerazionali, da rendere la gestione del cambiamento stesso estremamente faticosa e complessa
An Inequality of Erdös revisited
No full textIn this short note we prove by analytic way an elementary
geometric inequality of Erdös
Retrieving Diverse Social Images at MediaEval 2013: Objectives, Dataset and Evaluation
No full textThis paper provides an overview of the Retrieving Diverse Social Images task that is organized as part of the Medi-
aEval 2013 Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evalua-
tion. The task addresses the problem of result diversification in the context of social photo retrieval. We present the task challenges, the proposed data set and ground truth, the required participant runs and the evaluation metrics
Trasferimento teconologico e realtà locale : vecchie problematiche e nuove prospettive per una collaborazione tra università, industria e territorio
No full textIn a period of time characterized by economic crisis and global recession it is crucial for every country to foster innovations and make the most of its human and economic capital. One of the ways to enhance these potentials is knowledge transfer. With this term we refer to sharing of expertise and highly specializated know-how developed by universities and other research institutions. The origin of this process of innovation has always been the multifaceted world of research (primarily university networks and public authorities). Knowledge is considered as an “intangible asset” and such description, especially in Italy, poses several problems like, for example, its exact definition, its transfer, its use and ownership. Despite a complicated legal system and thanks to the effort of the European Union, in recent years the Italian academic and entrepreneurial sector have started to approach each other.
The rules adopted at the European level are not the only reference for national legislator; the thirty years experience of the U.S. Bayh-Dole Act also provides an obvious term of comparison. Nonetheless Italy, due to the peculiar nature of its political system and notwithstanding its European membership, tried to follow an original path.
This paper aims at examining the weaknesses and the evolution of technology transfer in Italy, through a comparative analysis of national and international legislations, and a comparison of local initiatives and new opportunities coming from crowd-funding
A semantic schema for GeoNames
No full textAs part of a broader strategy towards supporting semantic interoperability in geospatial applications, in this paper we present a semantic schema we designed for GeoNames and the qualitative improvements we obtained by enforcing it on the data
Pareto Local Search for Alternative Clustering
No full textSupervised alternative clusterings is the problem of finding
a set of clusterings which are of high quality and different from a given negative clustering. The task is therefore a clear multi-objective optimization problem. Optimizing two conflicting objectives at the same time requires dealing with tradeoffs. Most approaches in the literature optimize these objectives sequentially (one objective after another one) or indirectly (by some heuristic combination of the objectives). Solving a multi-objective optimization problem in these ways can result in solutions which are dominated (and not Pareto-optimal). We develop a direct multi objective local search algorithm based on Pareto Local Search, called PLSAC, which fully acknowledges the multiple objectives, optimizes them directly and simultaneously, and produces solutions approximating the Pareto front. PLSAC has no sensitive parameters to be tuned by the user, provides solutions which dominate those obtained by other state-of-the-art algorithms, and can accept arbitrary clustering quality and dissimilarity objectives. Besides, it can also be guided by the user to explore specific regions of interest along the Pareto front in an interactive manner
Failure Detection in Linear Arrays through Compressive Sensing
No full textAn array diagnosis method based on Bayesian Compressive Sensing is validated in the case for linear layouts. A set of numerical representative examples are presented with the aim of providing some insights on the method features and potentialities