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AIS
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
Simulating effects of signage, groups, and crowds on emergent evacuation patterns
Studies of past emergency events have revealed that occupants’ behaviors, egress signage system, local geometry, and environmental constraints affect crowd movement and govern th...
Mei Ling Chu, Paolo Parigi, Jean-Claude Latombe, K...
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AIS
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
A social contract for virtual institutions
Computer-mediated social groups, often known as virtual communities, are now giving a more durable and more abstract phenomenon: the emergence of virtual institutions. These social...
Daniel Memmi
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AIS
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
Information technology as social phenomenon
Computer science is of course first of all a technological domain, but it has also become an important social phenomenon as well. Information processing techniques fulfill crucial ...
Daniel Memmi
NGC
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
A Logical and Ontological Framework for Compositional Concepts of Objects and Properties
In order to formalize complex and compositional concepts, we propose a logical framework based on an upper ontology constructed from the composition of basic concepts such as prope...
Ken Kaneiwa, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Philip H. P. Nguy...
AIRS
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
Oyster: A Tool for Fine-Grained Ontological Annotations in Free-Text
Oyster is a web-based annotation tool that allows users to annotate free-text with respect to concepts defined in formal knowledge resources such as large domain ontologies. The t...
Hamed Tayebikhorami, Alejandro Metke-Jimenez, Anth...
AIRS
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
A Study of Collection-Based Features for Adapting the Balance Parameter in Pseudo Relevance Feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) is an effective technique to improve the ad-hoc retrieval performance. For PRF methods, how to optimize the balance parameter between the original ...
Ye Meng, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Yuexian Hou
AIRS
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
A Query Expansion Approach Using Entity Distribution Based on Markov Random Fields
Abstract. The development of knowledge graph construction has prompted more and more commercial engines to improve the retrieval performance by using knowledge graphs as the basic ...
Rui Li, Linxue Hao, Xiaozhao Zhao, Peng Zhang, Daw...
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NEW2AN
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
On Interoperability in Distributed Geoinformational Systems
Elena N. Velichko, Aleksey Grishentsev, Constantin...
NEW2AN
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
A Possible Development of Marine Internet: A Large Scale Cooperative Heterogeneous Wireless Network
: Today, terrestrial Internet can be easily accessed with various types of terminals almost anytime and anywhere on the land. But this is not yet the case in the ocean mainly due t...
Shengming Jiang
AINTEC
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
Understanding Internet Usage and Network Locality in a Rural Community Wireless Mesh Network
Community networks owned and operated by local communities have recently gained popularity as a low cost solution for Internet access. In this paper, we seek to understand the cha...
Adisorn Lertsinsrubtavee, Liang Wang, Arjuna Sathi...