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HICSS
1999
IEEE
193views Biometrics» more  HICSS 1999»
14 years 1 months ago
Web-based Access to Distributed High-Performance Geographic Information Systems for Decision Support
A number of applications that use GIS for decision support can potentially be enhanced by the use of high-performance computers, broadband networks and mass data stores. We descri...
Paul D. Coddington, Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. Ja...
ETS
2000
IEEE
220views Hardware» more  ETS 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
Law On-Line: A Collaborative, Web-Based Journey in the Law and Social Sciences
During Spring 1998, we embarked on pedagogical journey into unknown terrains -- the terrains of collaborative teaching and World Wide Web instruction. In this paper we present a j...
Cynthia L. Cates, Wayne V. McIntosh
SDM
2012
SIAM
247views Data Mining» more  SDM 2012»
11 years 11 months ago
Image Mining of Historical Manuscripts to Establish Provenance
he recent digitization of more than twenty million books has been led by initiatives from countries wishing to preserve their cultural heritage and by commercial endeavors, such a...
Bing Hu, Thanawin Rakthanmanon, Bilson J. L. Campa...
MIR
2005
ACM
137views Multimedia» more  MIR 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
A content-based image retrieval system for fish taxonomy
It is estimated that less than ten percent of the world’s species have been discovered and described. The main reason for the slow pace of new species description is that the sc...
Yixin Chen, Henry L. Bart Jr., Fei Teng
ELPUB
2007
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Openness in Higher Education: Open Source, Open Standards, Open Access
For national advisory services in the UK (UKOLN, CETIS, and OSS Watch), varieties of openness (open source software, open standards, and open access to research publications and d...
Brian Kelly, Scott Wilson, Randy Metcalfe