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2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
The Social Nature of Engineering and its Implications for Risk Taking
Making decisions with an, often significant, element of risk seems to be an integral part of many of the projects of the diverse profession of engineering. Whether it be decisions...
Allison Ross, Nafsika Athanassoulis
TDP
2010
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Random Forests for Generating Partially Synthetic, Categorical Data
Abstract. Several national statistical agencies are now releasing partially synthetic, public use microdata. These comprise the units in the original database with sensitive or ide...
Gregory Caiola, Jerome P. Reiter
TIP
2010
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Study of Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment of Video
Abstract—We present the results of a recent large-scale subjective study of video quality on a collection of videos distorted by a variety of application-relevant processes. Meth...
Kalpana Seshadrinathan, Rajiv Soundararajan, Alan ...
TMC
2010
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A Scalable and Energy-Efficient Context Monitoring Framework for Mobile Personal Sensor Networks
—The key feature of many emerging pervasive computing applications is to proactively provide services to mobile individuals. One major challenge in providing users with proactive...
Seungwoo Kang, Jinwon Lee, Hyukjae Jang, Youngki L...
TMC
2010
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SAMAC: A Cross-Layer Communication Protocol for Sensor Networks with Sectored Antennas
—Wireless sensor networks have been used to gather data and information in many diverse application settings. The capacity of such networks remains a fundamental obstacle toward ...
Emad Felemban, Serdar Vural, Robert Murawski, Eyle...