The NExT Process Workbench: Towards the Support of Dynamic Semantic Web Processes (2009)
Abraham Bernstein, Michael Daenzer
Traditional process support systems offer the promise of software assembled from service elements. The typical approach is a static composition of atomic processes to more powerful services. In the...
Tommaso Di Noia, Ruben Lara, Axel Polleres, Ioan Toma, Takahiro Kawamura, Matthias Klusch, ...
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Abraham Bernstein, Peter Vorburger, Patrice Egger
Abstract. In this paper we introduce the approach of direct interruptability inference from accelerometer and audio data and show that it provides highly accurate and robust predictions. Furthermore,...
SemTree: Ontology-Based Decision Tree Algorithm for Recommender Systems (2009)
Amancio Bouza, Gerald Reif, Abraham Bernstein, Harald Gall
Recommender systems play an important role in supporting people when choosing items from an overwhelming huge number of choices. So far, no recommender system makes use of domain knowledge. We are...
07491 Executive Summary -- Mining Programs and Processes (2009)
Bernstein, Abraham, Gall, Harald, Zeller, Andreas
The main goal of the seminar "Mining Programs and Processes" was to create a synergy between researchers of three communities, namely mining software repositories, data mining and machine learning,...
07491 Abstracts Collection -- Mining Programs and Processes (2009)
Bernstein, Abraham, Gall, Harald, Zeller, Andreas
From 02.12. to 17.12.2007, the Dagstuhl Seminar 07491 ``Mining Programs and Processes'' was held in Schloss Dagstuhl~--~Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants...
Retrieval–query formulation, search process (2008)
Abraham Bernstein, Christoph Kiefer
Traditional semantic web query languages support a logicbased access to the semantic web. They offer a retrieval (or reasoning) of data based on facts. On the traditional web and in databases,...
Andreas Reuter, Friedemann Schwenkreis, P. Lang, S. Rausch-schott, W. Retschitzegger, C. Mohan, ...
The Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering is published quarterly and is distributed to all TC members. Its scope includes the design, implementation, modelling, theory and...
Abraham Bernstein, Michael Daenzer
Abstract. Traditional process support systems typically offer a static composition of atomic tasks to more powerful services. In the real world, however, processes change over time: business needs...
How Useful are Natural Language Interfaces to the Semantic Web for Casual End-users? (2008)
Esther Kaufmann, Abraham Bernstein
Abstract. Natural language interfaces offer end-users a familiar and convenient option for querying ontology-based knowledge bases. Several studies have shown that they can achieve high retrieval...
Katharina Reinecke, Gerald Reif, Abraham Bernstein
Abstract. The increasing interest in personalizable applications for heterogeneous user populations has heightened the need for a more efficient acquisition of start-up information about the user. We...
How Useful Are Natural Language Interfaces to the Semantic Web for Casual End-Users? (2008)
Esther Kaufmann, Abraham Bernstein
Abstract. Natural language interfaces offer end-users a familiar and convenient option for querying ontology-based knowledge bases. Several studies have shown that they can achieve high retrieval...
Christoph Kiefer, Abraham Bernstein, Markus Stocker
Abstract. This research explores three SPARQL-based techniques to solve Semantic Web tasks that often require similarity measures, such as semantic data integration, ontology mapping, and Semantic...
Interruptability Prediction Using Motion Detection (2008)
Peter Vorburger, Abraham Bernstein, Alen Zurfluh
Abstract. People are subjected to a multitude of interruptions. This paper introduces an approach to predict a person’s presence and interruptability in an office-like environment. To determine...
Culturally Adaptive Software: Moving Beyond (2008)
Katharina Reinecke, Abraham Bernstein
Abstract. So far, culture has played a minor role in the design of software. Our experience with imbuto, a program designed for Rwandan agricultural advisors, has shown that cultural adaptation...
Abraham Bernstein, Christoph Buerki, Esther Kaufmann, Mark Klein
Finding good algorithms for assessing the similarity of complex objects in ontologies is central to the functioning of techniques such as retrieval, matchmaking, clustering, data-mining, semantic...
Abraham Bernstein, Foster Provost, Shawndra Hill
A data mining (DM) process involves multiple stages. A simple, but typical, process might in-clude preprocessing data, applying a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining re-sults. There...
Abstract. The ability to rapidly locate useful on-line services (e.g. software applications, software components, process models, or service organizations), as opposed to simply useful documents, is...
Semantic Process Retrieval with iSPARQL (2007)
Christoph Kiefer, Abraham Bernstein, Mark Klein, Markus Stocker
Abstract. The vision of semantic business processes is to enable the integration and inter-operability of business processes across organizational boundaries. Since different organizations model...
SPARQL Query Optimization Using Selectivity Estimation (2007)
Abraham Bernstein, Markus Stocker, Christoph Kiefer
Abstract. This poster describes three static SPARQL optimization approaches for in-memory RDF graphs: (1) a selectivity estimation index (SEI) for single query triple patterns; (2) a query pattern...
OptARQ: A SPARQL Optimization Approach based on Triple Pattern Selectivity Estimation (2007)
Abraham Bernstein, Christoph Kiefer, Markus Stocker
Abstract Query engines for ontological data based on graph models mostly execute user queries without considering any optimization. Especially for large ontologies, optimization techniques are...
Gino - a guided input natural language ontology editor (2006)
Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann
Abstract. The casual user is typically overwhelmed by the formal logic of the Semantic Web. The gap between the end user and the logic-based scaffolding has to be bridged if the Semantic Web’s...
Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann, Christian Kaiser, Christoph Kiefer
The Semantic Web presents the vision of a distributed, dynamically growing knowledge base founded on formal logic. Common users, however, seem to have problems even with the simplest Boolean...
Generic Similarity Detection in Ontologies with the (2006)
Patrick Ziegler, Christoph Kiefer, Christoph Sturm, Klaus R. Dittrich, Abraham Bernstein
Ontologies are increasingly used to represent the intended real-world semantics of data and services in information systems. Unfortunately, di#erent data sources often do not relate to the same...
Detecting Similarities in Ontologies with the SOQA-SimPack Toolkit (2006)
Patrick Ziegler, Christoph Kiefer, Christoph Sturm, Klaus R. Dittrich, Abraham Bernstein
Ontologies are increasingly used to represent the intended real-world semantics of data and services in information systems. Unfortunately, di#erent databases often do not relate to the same...
Detecting Similar Java Classes Using Tree Algorithms (2006)
Tobias Sager, Abraham Bernstein, Martin Pinzger, Christoph Kiefer
Similarity analysis of source code is helpful during development to provide, for instance, better support for code reuse. Consider a development environment that analyzes code while typing and that...
Querix: A Natural Language Interface to Query Ontologies Based on Clarification Dialogs (2006)
Esther Kaufmann, Abraham Bernstein, Renato Zumstein
The logic-based machine-understandable framework of the Semantic Web typically challenges casual users when they try to query ontologies. An often proposed solution to help casual users is the use of...
Towards Intelligent Assistance for a Data Mining Process:- (2005)
Provost, Foster, Hill, Shawndra, Bernstein, Abraham
A data mining (DM) process involves multiple stages. A simple, but typical, process might include preprocessing data, applying a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There...
Querying ontologies: A controlled english interface for end-users (2005)
Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann, Anne Göhring, Christoph Kiefer
Abstract. The semantic web presents the vision of a distributed, dynamically growing knowledge base founded on formal logic. Common users, however, seem to have problems even with the simplest...
Abraham Bernstein, Foster Provost, Abraham Bernstein, Foster Provost, Shawndra Hill
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Querying ontologies: A controlled english interface for end-users (2005)
Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann, Anne Göhring, Christoph Kiefer
Abstract. The semantic web presents the vision of a distributed, dynamically growing knowledge base founded on formal logic. Common users, however, seem to have problems even with the simplest...
How Similar Is It? Towards Personalized Similarity Measures in Ontologies (2005)
Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann, Christoph Bürki, Mark Klein
Abstract: Finding a good similarity assessment algorithm for the use in ontologies is central to the functioning of techniques such as retrieval, matchmaking, clustering, data-mining, ontology...
How Similar Is It? Towards Personalized Similarity Measures in Ontologies (2005)
Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann, Christoph Bürki, Mark Klein
Finding a good similarity assessment algorithm for the use in ontologies is central to the functioning of techniques such as retrieval, matchmaking, clustering, datamining, ontology translations,...
Querying the semantic web with ginseng: A guided input natural language search engine (2005)
Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann, Christian Kaiser
Abstract. The Semantic Web presents the vision of a distributed, dynamically growing knowledge base founded on formal logic. Common users, however, seem to have problems even with the simplest...
SimPack: A Generic Java Library for Similarity Measures in Ontologies (2005)
Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann, Christoph Kiefer, Christoph Bürki
Abstract Good similarity measures are central for techniques such as retrieval, matchmaking, clustering, data-mining, ontology translations, automatic database schema matching, and simple object...
Querying the semantic web with ginseng: A guided input natural language search engine (2005)
Abraham Bernstein, Esther Kaufmann, Christian Kaiser
Abstract. The Semantic Web presents the vision of a distributed, dynamically growing knowledge base founded on formal logic. Common users, however, seem to have problems even with the simplest...
Towards high-precision service retrieval (2004)
Abstract. The ability to rapidly locate useful on-line services (e.g. software applications, software components, process models, or service organizations), as opposed to simply useful documents, is...
Towards high-precision service retrieval (2004)
Abstract: Increasingly, on-line repositories such as the World Wide Web are being called upon to provide access not just to documents that collect useful information, but also to services (such as...
The Relational Vector-space Model (2003)
Bernstein, Abraham, Clearwater, Scott, Provost, Foster
This paper addresses the classification of linked entities. We introduce a relational vector (VS) model (in analogy to the VS model used in information retrieval) that abstracts the linked structure,...
The Relational Vector-space Model (2003)
Bernstein, Abraham, Clearwater, Scott, Provost, Foster
This paper addresses the classification of linked entities. We introduce a relational vector (VS) model (in analogy to the VS model used in information retrieval) that abstracts the linked structure,...
The Relational Vector-space Model (2003)
Bernstein, Abraham, Clearwater, Scott, Provost, Foster
This paper addresses the classification of linked entities. We introduce a relational vector (VS) model (in analogy to the VS model used in information retrieval) that abstracts the linked structure,...
The Relational Vector-space Model (2003)
Bernstein, Abraham, Clearwater, Scott, Provost, Foster
This paper addresses the classification of linked entities. We introduce a relational vector (VS) model (in analogy to the VS model used in information retrieval) that abstracts the linked structure,...
The relational vector-space model and industry classification (2003)
This paper addresses the classification of linked entities. We introduce a relational vector-space (VS) model (in analogy to the VS model used in information retrieval) that abstracts the linked...
Beyond Monotonic Inheritance: Towards Semantic Web Process Ontologies”. Working Paper (2003)
Abraham Bernstein, Benjamin N. Grosof
α NB: order of authorship is alphabetic. α: NB: Order of authorship is alphabetic. 1 Semantic Web Services (SWS), the convergence of Semantic Web and Web Services, is the emerging next major...
The relational vector-space model and industry classification (2003)
Abraham Bernstein, Abraham Bernstein, Scott Clearwater, Scott Clearwater, Foster Provost, Foster Provost
This paper addresses the classification of linked entities. We introduce a relational vectnr-space (VS) model (in analogy to the VS model used in information retrieval) that abstracts the linked...
Intelligent Assistance for the Data Mining Process: An Ontology-based Approach (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Hill, Shawndra, Provost, Foster
A data mining (DM) process involves multiple stages. A simple, but typical, process might include preprocessing data, applying a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There...
Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Extracted from Business News (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Clearwater, Scott, Hill, Shawndra, Perlich, Claudia, Provost, Foster
Thousands of business news stories (including press releases, earnings reports, general business news, etc.) are released each day. Recently, information technology advances have partially automated...
Intelligent Assistance for the Data Mining Process: An Ontology-based Approach (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Hill, Shawndra, Provost, Foster
A data mining (DM) process involves multiple stages. A simple, but typical, process might include preprocessing data, applying a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There...
Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Extracted from Business News (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Clearwater, Scott, Hill, Shawndra, Perlich, Claudia, Provost, Foster
Thousands of business news stories (including press releases, earnings reports, general business news, etc.) are released each day. Recently, information technology advances have partially automated...
Intelligent Assistance for the Data Mining Process: An Ontology-based Approach (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Hill, Shawndra, Provost, Foster
A data mining (DM) process involves multiple stages. A simple, but typical, process might include preprocessing data, applying a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There...
Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Extracted from Business News (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Clearwater, Scott, Hill, Shawndra, Perlich, Claudia, Provost, Foster
Thousands of business news stories (including press releases, earnings reports, general business news, etc.) are released each day. Recently, information technology advances have partially automated...
Intelligent Assistance for the Data Mining Process: An Ontology-based Approach (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Hill, Shawndra, Provost, Foster
A data mining (DM) process involves multiple stages. A simple, but typical, process might include preprocessing data, applying a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There...
Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Extracted from Business News (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Clearwater, Scott, Hill, Shawndra, Perlich, Claudia, Provost, Foster
Thousands of business news stories (including press releases, earnings reports, general business news, etc.) are released each day. Recently, information technology advances have partially automated...
Intelligent Assistance for the Data Mining Process: An Ontology-based Approach (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Hill, Shawndra, Provost, Foster
A data mining (DM) process involves multiple stages. A simple, but typical, process might include preprocessing data, applying a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There...
Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Extracted from Business News (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Clearwater, Scott, Hill, Shawndra, Perlich, Claudia, Provost, Foster
Thousands of business news stories (including press releases, earnings reports, general business news, etc.) are released each day. Recently, information technology advances have partially automated...
Intelligent Assistance for the Data Mining Process: An Ontology-based Approach (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Hill, Shawndra, Provost, Foster
A data mining (DM) process involves multiple stages. A simple, but typical, process might include preprocessing data, applying a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There...
Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Extracted from Business News (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Clearwater, Scott, Hill, Shawndra, Perlich, Claudia, Provost, Foster
Thousands of business news stories (including press releases, earnings reports, general business news, etc.) are released each day. Recently, information technology advances have partially automated...
Intelligent Assistance for the Data Mining Process: An Ontology-based Approach (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Hill, Shawndra, Provost, Foster
A data mining (DM) process involves multiple stages. A simple, but typical, process might include preprocessing data, applying a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There...
Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Extracted from Business News (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Clearwater, Scott, Hill, Shawndra, Perlich, Claudia, Provost, Foster
Thousands of business news stories (including press releases, earnings reports, general business news, etc.) are released each day. Recently, information technology advances have partially automated...
Intelligent Assistance for the Data Mining Process: An Ontology-based Approach (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Hill, Shawndra, Provost, Foster
A data mining (DM) process involves multiple stages. A simple, but typical, process might include preprocessing data, applying a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There...
Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Extracted from Business News (2002)
Bernstein, Abraham, Clearwater, Scott, Hill, Shawndra, Perlich, Claudia, Provost, Foster
Thousands of business news stories (including press releases, earnings reports, general business news, etc.) are released each day. Recently, information technology advances have partially automated...
Towards High-Precision Service Retrieval (2002)
The ability to rapidly locate useful on-line services (e.g. software applications, software components, process models, or service organizations), as opposed to simply useful documents, is becoming...
Discovering Services: Towards High-Precision Service Retrieval (2002)
The ability to rapidly locate useful on-line services (e.g. software applications, software components), as opposed to simply useful documents, is becoming increasingly critical in many domains....
Intelligent Assistance for the Data Mining Process: . . . (2002)
Abraham Bernstein, Abraham Bernstein, Foster Provost, Foster Provost, Shawndra Hill, Shawndra Hill
A data mining (DM) process involves multiple stages. A simple, but typical, process might include preprocessing data, applying a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There...
An intelligent assistant for the knowledge discovery process (2002)
Abraham Bernstein, Abraham Bernstein, Foster Provost, Foster Provost
Abstract attributes). However. Process 2 is valid. because it pre-A knowledge discovery (KD) process involves pre- processes the data with a discretization routine, transformprocessing data, choosing...
Mark Klein, Abraham Bernstein, Mark Klein, Abraham Bernstein
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AN INTELLIGENT ASSISTANT FOR THE KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY PROCESS (2001)
Bernstein, Abraham, Provost, Foster
A knowledge discovery (KD) process involves pre- data, choosing a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There are very many choices for each of these stages, and non-trivial...
AN INTELLIGENT ASSISTANT FOR THE KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY PROCESS (2001)
Bernstein, Abraham, Provost, Foster
A knowledge discovery (KD) process involves pre- data, choosing a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There are very many choices for each of these stages, and non-trivial...
AN INTELLIGENT ASSISTANT FOR THE KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY PROCESS (2001)
Bernstein, Abraham, Provost, Foster
A knowledge discovery (KD) process involves pre- data, choosing a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There are very many choices for each of these stages, and non-trivial...
AN INTELLIGENT ASSISTANT FOR THE KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY PROCESS (2001)
Bernstein, Abraham, Provost, Foster
A knowledge discovery (KD) process involves pre- data, choosing a data-mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There are very many choices for each of these stages, and non-trivial...
Searching for Services on the Semantic Web using Process Ontologies (2001)
Abstract. The ability to rapidly locate useful on-line services (e.g. software applications, software components, process models, or service organizations), as opposed to simply useful documents, is...
The Process Recombinator: A Tool for Generating New Business Process Ideas (1999)
Abraham Bernstein, Mark Klein, Thomas W. Malone
A critical need for many organizations in the next century will be the ability to quickly develop innovative business processes to take advantage of rapidly changing technologies and markets. Current...
Tools for Inventing Organizations: Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes (1999)
Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston, Jintae Lee, Brian Pentland, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, George Wyner, ...
This paper reports on the first five years of work in a project to address these problems by (1) developing methodologies and software tools for representing and codifying organizational processes at...
The Process Recombinator: A Tool for Generating New Business Process Ideas (1999)
Abraham Bernstein, Mark Klein, Thomas W. Malone
A critical need for many organizations in the next century will be the ability to quickly develop innovative business processes to take advantage of rapidly changing technologies and markets. Current...
Tools for Teaching Change Management: The Matrix of Change and Supporting Software (1997)
Amy Renshaw, Erik Brynjolfsson, Erik Brynjolfsson, Marshall Van Alstyne, Abraham Bernstein, Abraham Bernstein, ...
t MIT and Stanford. It will also demonstrate new software for use in both the teaching and practice of business process reengineering. The software has been developed using the Visual Basic...
Data Engineering Special Issue on Workflow Systems (1995)
Mei Hsu (Ed.), Andreas Reuter, Friedemann Schwenkreis, P. Lang, S. Rausch-schott, W. Retschitzegger, ...
This paper provides a progress report on the development of softwaretools in the Process Handbook project currently underway at the MIT Center for Coordination Science. We begin with a brief overview...
Differences in verbal responses in approval and disapproval (1952)
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Software infrastructure and design challenges for ubiquitous computing applications (0000)
This article focuses on prospective challenges that might arise due to the implementation of ubiquitous computing. Users, in traditional computing environments, actively choose to interact with...
Software infrastructure and design challenges for ubiquitous computing applications
This article focuses on prospective challenges that might arise due to the implementation of ubiquitous computing. Users, in traditional computing environments, actively choose to interact with...
Toward a handbook of organizational processes
Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston, Jintae Lee, Brian Pentland, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, George Wyner, ...
Revised October 1998 This paper describes a novel theoretical and empirical approach to tasks such as business process redesign and knowledge management. The project involves collecting examples of...
Tools for inventing organizations: Toward a handbook of organizational processes
Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston, Jintae Lee, Brian Pentland, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, George Wyner, ...
This paper describes a novel theoretical and empirical approach to tasks such as business process redesign, enterprise modeling, and software development. The project involves collecting examples of...