Social network research has focused on hyperlink graphs, bibliographic citations, friend/follow patterns, influence spread, etc. Large software repositories also form a highly valuable networked artifact, usually in the ...

We propose a novel technique for producing high-quality 3d models that match a given target object image or scan. Our method is based on retrieving an existing shape from a database of 3d models and then deforming its parts ...

Consider a wireless system where a sender can transmit data to various users with independent and varying channel conditions. To maximize its long-term transmission rate, the sender should always transmit to the user with ...

Reasoning and sense-making has been proved to be difficult for learners. Connecting genetic disorders with their underlying chromosomal aberrations requires reasoning and sense-making based on the clinical symptoms. In ...

With the growth of the Web, there has been a rapid increase in the number of users who need to access online databases without having a detailed knowledge of the schema or of query languages; even relatively simple query ...

In the commercial aviation domain, there are a large number of documents, like accident reports of ntsb and asrs, and regulatory directives ads. There is a need for a system to efficiently access these diverse repositories ...

The kolmogorov constant is a prefactor used to correlate the spectral distribution of turbulent kinetic energy with the turbulent dissipation rate. The kolmogorov constant has been used in stochastic turbulence models and ...

Cavity formation is an important phenomenon in the underground coal gasification (UCG) process. In the early stages of cavity formation, only the combustion reaction is performed in order to stabilize the temperature field. ...