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URBAN
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Automatic identification of urban settlement boundaries for multiple representation databases
Intuitive and meaningful interpretation of geographical phenomena requires their representation at multiple levels of detail. This is due to the scale dependent nature of their pr...
Omair Chaudhry, William A. Mackaness
CHI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Because I carry my cell phone anyway: functional location-based reminder applications
Although they have potential, to date location-based information systems have not radically improved the way we interact with our surroundings. To study related issues, we develop...
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Frankowski, Ken Reily, Kurt...
EUROSSC
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Towards Hovering Information
This paper introduces a new concept of information that can exist in a mobile environment with no fixed infrastructure and centralized servers, which we call the Hovering Informati...
Alfredo A. Villalba Castro, Dimitri Konstantas
CGA
2006
14 years 10 months ago
The Distance-Similarity Metaphor in Region-Display Spatializations
n explore and understand abstract information spaces as if they were real geographic spaces. According to the distance-similarity metaphor1 one of the most popular spatial metaphor...
Sara Irina Fabrikant, Daniel R. Montello, David M....
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Dynamic Path Reconfiguration Among Hybrid FSO/RF Nodes
— To increase the availability of Free Space Network (FSO) networks, the optical link is provided with a redundant backup network, such as RF, to form a hybrid network. The immed...
Swapna Gurumani, Hassan Moradi, Hazem H. Refai, Pe...