Approved for public release, distribution unlimited / Adopting Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) are key steps to accommodate the evolution of Internet technologies. While HTTP is already a proven standard communication protocol responsible for the rapid expansion of the World Wide Web, XML provides general mechanisms for determining validatable documents and addresses several deficiencies of HTML regarding diverse document structure and content. XML and HTTP together provide many of the essential capabilities associated with database engines. The Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) Institute of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is continuing to build a database of 3D tactical scenarios and using X3D and VRML tools. The configuration parameters and statistical results of these scenarios are XML documents. For a better understanding and usability of these results by the end users, a Webbased application stores and manipulates these XML document. This thesis develops a server-side application that can store, serve, and annotate tactical scenarios for X3D operational visualization and anti-terrorist training by using XML and HTTP technologies. The experimental demonstration for this work is the prototypical Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) simulation model developed by Lieutenant James W. Harney, USN, using Extensible 3D Graphics (X3D)/ Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) models. / Captain, Tunisian Army

by Yuen Lok-tin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-95). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.I / 摘要 --- p.III / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.V / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.VI / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.VIII / LIST OF TABLES --- p.IX / Chapter 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Objectives --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Organization --- p.4 / Chapter 2 --- LITERATURE REVIEW & THEORETICAL FOUNDATION --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- "Data, Information and Knowledge" --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- Knowledge Management --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Information Transparency and Efficiency --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Transparency --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Efficiency --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4 --- extensible markup language (XML) --- p.14 / Chapter 3 --- DIGITAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND ISSUES --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1 --- Managing Financial Information on the Internet --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2 --- Existing Electronic Financial Filing Systems --- p.20 / Chapter 3.3 --- Financial Document Disclosure Model --- p.21 / Chapter 3.4 --- Interaction Between Information Producers and Consumers --- p.23 / Chapter 3.5 --- Gluing All Together --- p.26 / Chapter 4 --- IDEAL ELECTRONIC FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE SYSTEM --- p.27 / Chapter 4.1 --- Structure and Representation of Knowledge --- p.28 / Chapter 4.2 --- Content Creation --- p.33 / Chapter 5 --- PROPOSED APPROACH --- p.36 / Chapter 5.1 --- Preliminary XML Data Dictionary --- p.36 / Chapter 5.2 --- Creation of XML Tags --- p.40 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Statistical Information Retrieval --- p.41 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Accounting and Auditing Practice --- p.43 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Investors´ةFeedback --- p.44 / Chapter 5.3 --- Value-Added Services --- p.45 / Chapter 6 --- DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ELFFS-XML --- p.49 / Chapter 6.1 --- Stages of ELFFS-XML --- p.49 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Information Creation --- p.49 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Information Collection/Storage --- p.50 / Chapter 6.1.3 --- Knowledge Generation --- p.51 / Chapter 6.1.4 --- Knowledge Dissemination/Presentation --- p.52 / Chapter 6.1.5 --- Feedback --- p.52 / Chapter 6.2 --- Components of ELFFS-XML --- p.53 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Data Source Abstraction Layer --- p.55 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Storage Abstraction Layer --- p.57 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Logic Layer --- p.61 / Chapter 6.2.4 --- Presentation Layer --- p.63 / Chapter 7 --- EVALUATING ELFFS-XML --- p.66 / Chapter 7.1 --- Comparison with Other Financial Information Disclosure Systems --- p.66 / Chapter 7.2 --- Users' Evaluation --- p.70 / Chapter 7.3 --- Systems Efficiency --- p.71 / Chapter 7.4 --- XML Tag Generation Approach Performance Evaluation --- p.73 / Chapter 8 --- CONCLUSION AND FUTURE RESEARCH --- p.78 / APPENDIX I SURVEY ON INVESTMENT PATTERN --- p.80 / APPENDIX II CORE ELFFS-XML DTD --- p.84 / APPENDIX III PERFORMANCE RELATED XML TAGS --- p.86 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.88

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-119). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Don Brutzman, Curtis L. Blais. Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-122). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S. in Information Systems Technology)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Magdi N. Kamel, Gordon H. Bradley. Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-103). Also available online.

Thesis (M.Sc. (Computer Science)) - Rhodes University, 2007.

The Semantic Web is a vision to create a “web of knowledge”; an extension of the Web as we know it which will create an information space which will be usable by machines in very rich ways. The technologies which make up the Semantic Web allow machines to reason across information gathered from the Web, presenting only relevant results and inferences to the user. Users of the Web in its current form assess the credibility of the information they gather in a number of different ways. If processing happens without the user being able to check the source and credibility of each piece of information used in the processing, the user must be able to trust that the machine has used trustworthy information at each step of the processing. The machine should therefore be able to automatically assess the credibility of each piece of information it gathers from the Web. A case study on advanced checks for website credibility is presented, and the site presented in the case presented is found to be credible, despite failing many of the checks which are presented. A website with a backend based on RDF technologies is constructed. A better understanding of RDF technologies and good knowledge of the RAP and Redland RDF application frameworks is gained. The second aim of constructing the website was to gather information to be used for testing various trust metrics. The website did not gain widespread support, and therefore not enough data was gathered for this. Techniques for presenting RDF data to users were also developed during website development, and these are discussed. Experiences in gathering RDF data are presented next. A scutter was successfully developed, and the data smushed to create a database where uniquely identifiable objects were linked, even where gathered from different sources. Finally, the use of digital signature as a means of linking an author and content produced by that author is presented. RDF/XML canonicalisation is discussed in the provision of ideal cryptographic checking of RDF graphs, rather than simply checking at the document level. The notion of canonicalisation on the semantic, structural and syntactic levels is proposed. A combination of an existing canonicalisation algorithm and a restricted RDF/XML dialect is presented as a solution to the RDF/XML canonicalisation problem. We conclude that a trusted Semantic Web is possible, with buy in from publishing and consuming parties.

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This thesis describes the modeling of Martial Arts as a markup language. Up until now Martial Arts has already been documented in books, videos, tradition and other methods. Though to represent Martial Arts knowledge consistently and uniformly in a digital era, we introduce the Martial Arts Markup Language (MAML), which is based on XML. Because XML provides a standardized, serializable and portable format, MAML also enables sharing among students, teachers and their peers across different platforms, media and networks. MAML provides the ability, with appropriate XML tools, to document a Martial Arts style in a structured way. To achieve this, we first analyze the aspects that comprise Martial Arts; and how its states and processes relate to one another. We model in MAML describing the stances, transitions, punches, blocks, techniques, combinations, reactions and patterns used in Martial Arts. We discuss the implementation of MAML by observing and extracting the definable aspects in existing Martial Art Instructive Documents. The MAML Schema assures that the details of a Martial Arts Style’s elements are consistent. Current simulation efforts will be explained as well as areas for future development. We have described Martial Arts by observing what has already been done and creating a structured standard to document them. We hope to enable practitioners’ abilities to learn from and develop their arts by providing a resource in which they can interact with. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

ITC/USA 2006 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Second Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 23-26, 2006 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California / In this paper we provide the motivation for a neutral instrumentation hardware abstraction language that is focused on the description and control of instrumentation systems and networks. We also describe the design approach and structure of such a language that meets the needs. The language design is described according to the three roles it must serve: (1) as a descriptive language for specifying and describing the components and configuration of an instrumentation system, (2) as a command language for issuing configuration and data commands to instrumentation hardware and (3) as a query language for requesting the current state of instrumentation hardware.