scholarly journals Listening through Webs for/of Creole Improvisation

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Yulsman ◽  
Jessie Cox
Keyword(s):  
Web Performance ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Alternative Practices ◽  
Modes Of Engagement ◽  
Historical Origins ◽  
The Web

Our paper reflects on our experience with Weaving Music II—a web performance space we built with fifteen artists working across different disciplines. The website and our essay attempt to create alternatives to the “at-the-same-timeness” of streaming technologies as well as the forms of listening defined by data capitalism and corporate platforms like Google and YouTube. At the heart of the alternative practices we propose is an embrace of what we see as the creolizing potentiality of the Web and of listening. To unpack these potentialities, the essay and artwork critically reflect on listening that occurs through  Afrofuturistic modes of engagement with technology, space and time. We consider the historical origins of Web improvisations, our approach to collaboration using Weaving Music II, and theories of information that move beyond the need for predefined codes of understanding.

De-Coupling Groups in Space and Time

2010 ◽  
pp. 141-158
Author(s):  
Kevin Burden ◽  
Simon Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Radical Change ◽  
Mailing List ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Chat Room ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Personal Media ◽  
The Web

Prior to the Web, we had hundreds of years of experience with broadcast media, from printing presses to radio and TV. Prior to email, we had hundreds of years experience with personal media – the telegraph, the telephone. But outside the Internet, we had almost nothing that supported conversation among many people at once. The radical change was de-coupling groups in space and time. To get a conversation going around a conference table or campfire, you need to gather everyone in the same place at the same moment. By undoing those restrictions, the Internet has ushered in a host of new social patterns, from the mailing list to the chat room to the weblog. (Shirky, 2003)

scholarly journals O dispositivo como unidade básica do conhecimento na web semântica | The dispositif as the basic unit of knowledge in semantic web

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo De Santis
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Data Volume ◽  
Informational Environment ◽  
Historical Origins ◽  
The Web ◽  
Representation Of Knowledge

RESUMO As bases teóricas que sustentam a proposta de elaboração de um sistema de organização do conhecimento capaz de superar as limitações da abordagem dicotômica tradicional podem ser simbolizadas com o deslocamento da representação imagética do conhecimento da árvore para o rizoma. Neste contexto, o presente artigo propõe a adoção da noção filosófica de dispositivo como unidade básica do conhecimento em sistemas orientados pela recuperação. Para tanto, são investigadas as origens históricas desse deslocamento e analisados os seus impactos na web – um ambiente informacional que se torna maior a cada instante, em termos de volume de dados, e mais complexo, no que diz respeito à dispersão e à fragmentação da informação. São discutidos ainda os desafios e possíveis desdobramentos relativos à organização do conhecimento e à recuperação da informação no âmbito da web semântica.Palavras-chave: Sistema de Organização do Conhecimento; Classificação; Recuperação; Conceito.ABSTRACT The theoretical framework that supports the intent of elaborating a knowledge organization system capable of overcoming the limitations of traditional dichotomous approach can be symbolized by the displacement of the visual representation of knowledge from the tree to the rhizome. In this context, the present work proposes the adoption of the philosophical notion of dispositif as the basic unit of knowledge in systems oriented by the retrieval. To achieve this, the historical origins of that displacement were studied and its impacts on the web – an informational environment that becomes larger at each moment, in terms of data volume, and more complex, in terms of dispersion and fragmentation of information – were studied. The work also discusses the challenges and possible developments regarding knowledge organization and information retrieval in the scope of the semantic web.Keywords: Knowledge Organization System; Classification; Recovery; Concept.

scholarly journals Small behavioral adaptations enable more effective prey capture by producing 3D-structured spider threads

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline C. F. Grannemann ◽  
Marco Meyer ◽  
Marian Reinhardt ◽  
Martín J. Ramírez ◽  
Marie E. Herberstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prey Capture ◽  
Behavioral Differences ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Fiber Alignment ◽  
Web Performance ◽  
Behavioral Adaptations ◽  
Zigzag Pattern ◽  
Orb Web ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Web

AbstractSpiders are known for producing specialized fibers. The radial orb-web, for example, contains tough silk used for the web frame and the capture spiral consists of elastic silk, able to stretch when prey impacts the web. In concert, silk proteins and web geometry affects the spider’s ability to capture prey. Both factors have received considerable research attention, but next to no attention has been paid to the influence of fiber processing on web performance. Cribellate spiders produce a complex fiber alignment as their capture threads. With a temporally controlled spinneret movement, they connect different fibers at specific points to each other. One of the most complex capture threads is produced by the southern house spider, Kukulcania hibernalis (Filistatidae). In contrast to the so far characterized linear threads of other cribellate spiders, K. hibernalis spins capture threads in a zigzag pattern due to a slightly altered spinneret movement. The resulting more complex fiber alignment increased the thread’s overall ability to restrain prey, probably by increasing the adhesion area as well as its extensibility. Kukulcania hibernalis' cribellate silk perfectly illustrates the impact of small behavioral differences on the thread assembly and, thus, of silk functionality.

scholarly journals Crossing the digital divide: an interoperable solution for sharing time series and coverages in Earth sciences

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 3013-3029 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. Salas ◽  
E. Boldrini ◽  
D. R. Maidment ◽  
S. Nativi ◽  
B. Domenico
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Atmospheric Science ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Continuous Space ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Time Domains ◽  
The Web

Abstract. In a world driven by the Internet and the readily accessible information it provides, there exists a high demand to easily discover and collect vast amounts of data available over several scientific domains and numerous data types. To add to the complexity, data is not only available through a plethora of data sources within disparate systems but also represents differing scales of space and time. One clear divide that exists in the world of information science and technology is the disjoint relationship between hydrologic and atmospheric science information. These worlds have long been split between observed time series at discrete geographical features in hydrologic science and modeled or remotely sensed coverages or grids over continuous space and time domains in atmospheric science. As more information becomes widely available through the Web, data are being served and published as Web services using standardized implementations and encodings. This paper illustrates a framework that utilizes Sensor Observation Services, Web Feature Services, Web Coverage Services, Catalog Services for the Web and GI-cat Services to index and discover data offered through different classes of information. This services infrastructure supports multiple servers of time series and gridded information, which can be searched through multiple portals, using a common set of time, space and concept query filters.

scholarly journals Optimization of Web Services and Semantic Web Performance using different techniques provided by the QoS

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-384
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Web Performance ◽  
The Web

Current Web services research is increasingly using semantic models to extract useful information from the Web according to different principles of the Semantic Web which allowed to take advantage of the consideration of the meaning and the meaning of the exchanged data to improve the feasibility of the different tasks such as the description, the pairing, and the discovery. This work focuses on semantic-service-oriented architectures in which providers of different Web services can describe, publish, and discover Semantic Web Services, whose purpose is to solve problems such as information overload and the navigation problem, which concern the users of the Web. In this paper, a solution to performance and optimization problems is proposed for the selection of web services at the QoS quality of service level taking into account the quality of service using different techniques provided by the QoS.

Being, Space, and Time on the Web

2013 ◽  
pp. 77-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michalis Vafopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Space And Time ◽  
The Web

‘De-Coupling Groups in Space and Time’

2012 ◽  
pp. 588-610
Author(s):  
Kevin Burden ◽  
Simon Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Radical Change ◽  
Mailing List ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Chat Room ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Personal Media ◽  
The Web

Prior to the Web, we had hundreds of years of experience with broadcast media, from printing presses to radio and TV. Prior to email, we had hundreds of years experience with personal media – the telegraph, the telephone. But outside the Internet, we had almost nothing that supported conversation among many people at once. The radical change was de-coupling groups in space and time. To get a conversation going around a conference table or campfire, you need to gather everyone in the same place at the same moment. By undoing those restrictions, the Internet has ushered in a host of new social patterns, from the mailing list to the chat room to the weblog. (Shirky, 2003)

Trace-Driven Simulation of Document Caching Strategies for Internet Web Servers

SIMULATION ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin F. Arlitt ◽  
Carey L. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Web Server ◽  
Main Memory ◽  
Replacement Policy ◽  
Web Servers ◽  
Time Duration ◽  
Cache Partitioning ◽  
Web Performance ◽  
File Caching ◽  
The Web ◽  
Caching Strategies

Given the continued growth of the World-Wide Web, performance of Web sewers is becoming increasingly important. File caching can be used to reduce the time that it takes a Web server to respond to client requests, by storing the most popular files in the main memory of the Web sewer, and by reducing the volume of data that must be transferred between secondary storage and the Web server. In this paper, we use trace-driven simulation to evaluate the effects of various replacement, threshold, and partitioning policies on the performance of a Web sewer. The workload traces for the simulations come from Web server access logs, from six different Internet Web sewers. The traces represent three different orders of magnitude in sewer activity and two different orders of magnitude in time duration. The results from our simulation study show that frequency-based caching strategies, using a variation of the Least Frequently Used (LFU) replacement policy, perform the best for the Web sewer workload traces considered. Thresholding policies and cache partitioning policies for Internet Web servers do not appear to be effective.

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