Publications related to Semantic technology

Building a Knowledge Graph of Chinese Kung Fu Masters From Heterogeneous Bilingual Data

Various endeavours into semantic web technologies and ontology engineering have been made within the organisation of cultural data, facilitating public access to digital assets. Although models for conceptualising objects have reached a certain level of ma ...

2023

The Facets of Intangible Heritage in Southern Chinese Martial Arts: Applying a Knowledge-Driven Cultural Contact Detection Approach

Yumeng Hou

Investigating the intangible nature of a cultural domain can take multiple forms, addressing for example the aesthetic, epistemic and social dimensions of its phenomenology. The context of Southern Chinese martial arts is of particular significance as it c ...

2023

An Ontology-based Engineering system to support aircraft manufacturing system design

Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

During the conceptual design phase of an aircraft manufacturing system, different industrial scenarios need to be evaluated against performance indicators in a collaborative engineering process. Domain experts' knowledge and the motivations for decision-ma ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Text as a Richer Source of Supervision in Semantic Segmentation Tasks

Devis Tuia, Valérie Zermatten, Lloyd Haydn Hughes, Javiera Francisca Castillo Navarro

This paper introduces TACOSS a text-image alignment approach that allows explainable land cover semantic segmentation by directly integrating semantic concepts encoded from texts. TACOSS combines convolutional neural networks for visual feature extraction ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc2023

KNNs of Semantic Encodings for Rating Prediction

Léo Jules Laugier

This paper explores a novel application of textual semantic similarity to user-preference representation for rating prediction. The approach represents a user's preferences as a graph of textual snippets from review text, where the edges are defined by sem ...

IEEE2023

A semantic-driven tradespace framework to accelerate aircraft manufacturing system design

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

During the design phase of an aircraft manufacturing system, different industrial scenarios need to be evaluated according to key performance indicators to achieve the optimal system performance. It is a highly complex process involving multidisciplinary s ...

SPRINGER2022

Cognitive twin construction for system of systems operation based on semantic integration and high-level architecture

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Han Li

With the increasing complexity of engineered systems, digital twins (DTs) have been widely used to support integrated modeling, simulation, and decision-making of the system of systems (SoS). However, when integrating DTs of each constituent system, it is ...

IOS PRESS2022

Semantics-Aware Spatial-Temporal Binaries for Cross-Modal Video Retrieval

Jie Luo, Mengshi Qi, Yiyu Wang

With the current exponential growth of video-based social networks, video retrieval using natural language is receiving ever-increasing attention. Most existing approaches tackle this task by extracting individual frame-level spatial features to represent ...

2021

The emergence of cognitive digital twin: vision, challenges and opportunities

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

As a key enabling technology of Industry 4.0, Digital Twin (DT) has been widely applied to various industrial domains covering different lifecycle phases of products and systems. To fully realize the Industry 4.0 vision, it is necessary to integrate multip ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

Ontology for Strategies and Predictive Maintenance models

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Gökan May, Sangje Cho, Marlène Hildebrand-Ehrhardt

As of today, to cope with traditional maintenance policies such as reactive and preventive maintenance, the manufacturing companies need the deployment of adaptive and responsive maintenance strategies. Meanwhile, the advent of Industry 4.0 leads the maint ...

ELSEVIER2020

Ontology-Based Resource Allocation for Internet of Things

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Damiano Nunzio Arena, Zeinab Nezami

The Internet of Things has revolutionized the lifestyle in all aspects. Considering the huge number of connected objects and the plethora of real-time services, edge computing approaches have emerged. Resource allocation is one of the most important challe ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Semantic Interoperability and Open IoT APIs for Smart Cities Applications

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Prodromos Kolyvakis

As the percentage of the total population living in urban regions is increasing, new challenges for the cities of the future arise. Smart Cities emerged as a solution to these challenges building on the strength of intelligent information, communication te ...

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN2018

Simple Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction using Sentence Embeddings

Martin Jaggi, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Kamil Bennani-Smires

Keyphrase extraction is the task of automatically selecting a small set of phrases that best describe a given free text document. Keyphrases can be used for indexing, searching, aggregating and summarizing text documents, serving many automatic as well as ...

2018

Semantic representation and processing of hypoglycemic events derived from wearable sensor data

Karl Aberer, Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

Diabetes Type 1 is a metabolic disease which results in a lack of insulin production, causing high glucose levels in the blood. It is crucial for diabetic patients to balance this glucose level, and they depend on external substances to do so. In order to ...

Ios Press2017

Closed-Loop Lifecycle Management of Service and Product in the Internet of Things: Semantic Framework for Knowledge Integration

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Min-Jung Yoo

This paper describes our conceptual framework of closed-loop lifecycle information sharing for product-service in the Internet of Things (IoT). The framework is based on the ontology model of product-service and a type of IoT message standard, Open Messagi ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Reactive Processing of RDF Streams of Events

Karl Aberer, Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez

Events on the Web are increasingly being produced in the form of data streams, and are present in many different scenarios and applications such as health monitoring, environmental sensing or social networks. The heterogeneity of event streams has raised t ...

2015

The Homeostasis Protocol: Avoiding Transaction Coordination Through Program Analysis

Christoph Koch, Hossein Hojjat

Datastores today rely on distribution and replication to achieve improved performance and fault-tolerance. But correctness of many applications depends on strong consistency properties—something that can impose substantial overheads, since it requires coor ...

ACM Press2015

Knowledge-based decision support for improving the adaptive product development process

Predrag Spasojevic

The product development process (PDP) is a complex process encompassing many very diverse activities, and involving a fairly big number of actors, spread across different professions, teams and companies. In todayâ s product development, more often than n ...

EPFL2015

Towards Seamless Continuation of Knowledge in Product Lifecycle Management

Apostolos Perdikakis

The current ICT for manufacturing landscape is characterized by scattered data formats, tools and processes dedicated to different phases in the product lifecycle. Due to the diversity of tools and data formats, manufacturing struggles to cope with new tre ...

EPFL2015

Semantic Data Layers in Air Quality Monitoring for Smarter Cities

Karl Aberer, Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez, Julien Eberle

Air pollution is one of the key indicators for quality of life in urban environments, and is also the subject of global health concern, given the number of mortal diseases associated to exposure to pollutants. Assessing and monitoring air quality is an imp ...

2015