Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
This paper is to investigate the group behavior patterns of search activities based on Web search history data, i.e., clickthrough data, to boost search performance. We propose a ...
Current methods of estimating air quality involve assigning a single value called the Air Quality Index (AQI) to a large land area for a 24-hour period based on a very few, sparse...
—Network aware multimedia delivery applications are a class of applications that provide certain level of quality of service (QoS) guarantees to end users while not assuming unde...
When evaluating quantitative aspects of communication networks using simulation, one of the main difficulties to face is the often considerable computing power required. In some s...