National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

About: National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences is a education organization based out in Islamabad, Pakistan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & The Internet. The organization has 1506 authors who have published 2438 publications receiving 26786 citations.

TODE : A Dot Net based tool for ontology development and editing

Abstract: Semantic Web is an initiative towards transforming the current world-wide-web such that contents over the web can be understood and processed by machines. Ontology is one of the vital components of semantic web. It provides the vocabulary of a particular domain so that web contents can be easily comprehend by machines. Over the years, a number of tools like Protege, WebODE and Ontolingua have emerged that assist ontology developers in the creation of ontologies. Most of these tools have been developed in open source languages while Dot Net community is slow to react. The developers of open source languages are actively working on creation of supporting tools like reasoners, consistency checkers and visualizers. Due to the unavailability of any Dot Net based ontology editing tool, we don't see similar type of activity in Dot Net community. We believe that a Dot Net based ontology editor can work as a catalyst and will trigger further development of supporting software in Dot Net environment. In this paper, we have proposed a Dot Net based tool for ontology development and editing called TODE. The tool provides a simplified, W3C compliant, web based environment for ontology creation.

Measuring entertainment and automatic generation of entertaining games

Abstract: Over the period of time computer games have became a major source of entertainment for humans. From the point of view of game developers there is a constant demand of writing games which are entertaining for the end users but entertainment itself is of subjective nature. It has always been difficult to quantify the entertainment value of the human player. The two factors which mainly influence the entertainment value are the type of the game and the contents of the game. In this paper we address the issues of measuring entertainment and automatic generation of computer games. We present some quantitative measures for entertainment in a genre of computer game and apply them as a guide for the evolution of new interesting games.