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COSIT
2003
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Landscape Categories in Yindjibarndi: Ontology, Environment, and Language
This paper describes categories for landscape elements in the language of the Yindjibarndi people, a community of Indigenous Australians. Yindjibarndi terms for topographic featur...
David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk
GIS
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Analysis of community-contributed space- and time-referenced data
Space- and time-referenced data published on the Web by general people can be viewed in a dual way: as independent spatiotemporal events and as trajectories of people in the geogr...
Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Peter Bak, S...
ICWSM
2010
14 years 11 months ago
Tweeting from the Town Square: Measuring Geographic Local Networks
This paper examines tweets about two geographically local events--a shooting and a building collapse--that took place in Wichita, Kansas and Atlanta, Georgia, respectively. Most I...
Sarita Yardi, Danah Boyd
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
The resilience of WDM networks to probabilistic geographical failures
—Telecommunications networks, and in particular optical WDM networks, are vulnerable to large-scale failures of their physical infrastructure, resulting from physical attacks (su...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Alon Efrat, Shashidhara K. Ganj...
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Maximizing Transport Capacity for Geographic Transmission on Nakagami-m Channels
—In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), conventional packet forwarding schemes that pre-select the next-hop receivers for a packet may fail if the channel coherence time is on the o...
Tathagata D. Goswami, John M. Shea, Tan F. Wong, M...