In the last few years, the University of Aveiro, Portugal, has been offering several distance learning courses over the Web, using e-learning platforms. Experience showed that dif...
As web information systems tend to mature it has become increasingly important to have an engineered design of such systems. Hera is a design methodology that supports the develop...
Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, Peter Barna, ...
Creative metaphor is a phenomenon that stretches and bends the conventions of semantic description, often to humorous and poetic extremes. The computational modeling of metaphor t...
Background: Tissue MicroArray technique is becoming increasingly important in pathology for the validation of experimental data from transcriptomic analysis. This approach produce...
Federica Viti, Ivan Merelli, Andrea Caprera, Barba...
Background: An adequate and expressive ontological representation of biological organisms and their parts requires formal reasoning mechanisms for their relations of physical aggr...