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Building Linked Spatio-Temporal Data from Vectorized Historical Maps
Historical maps provide a rich source of information for researchers in the social and natural sciences. These maps contain detailed documentation of a wide variety of natural and human-made features and their...
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Classifying Quality Centrality for Source Localization in Social Networks
Source localization, the process of estimating the originator of an epidemic outbreak or rumor propagation in a network, is an important issue in epidemiology and sociology. With the graph topology of the unde...
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Coupled Linear and Deep Nonlinear Method for Meetup Service Recommendation
Meetup brings people with similar interests together to do things that matter to them. For example, it provides a platform for getting people who love hiking, coding, running marathons, learning foreign langua...
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Modeling a Systematic-Innovation Approach for Green Product Design
Technology develo** always impacts environment. Designers must consider the balance between technical innovation and environmental protection when creating an innovative product. This paper presents a system...
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A Programming Cutting System to Enhance Productivity with Individualities
As an alternative to traditional laser cutting, we present LaserLeast, a fabrication-oriented design system that produce 3D objects using a laser cutter to bridge the gaps in prototy** from software to hardw...
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Painting Image Classification Using Online Learning Algorithm
Recent years have witnessed a growing interesting in studying of painting images. It is obvious that there exists a deep gap between painting images and natural images, due to special characteristics of painti...
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Variable-Length Segment Copy for Compressing Index Map of Palette Coding in Screen Content Coding
With the emerging applications, such as screen mirroring, and remote play, screen contents coding (SCC) plays important role in video coding recently. Since the characteristics of screen contents are different...
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Using the Smartphone to Support Successful Aging: Technology Acceptance with Selective Optimization and Compensation Among Older Adults
Aging populations and the rapid dissemination of technological innovations both underscore the importance of the use and adoption of new technologies among older adults. Most studies have focused primarily on ...
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Neighboring Sample Prediction Coding for HEVC Screen Content Coding
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Screen Content Coding (SCC) is under standardizing for the screen-captured contents. Because many areas are composed of the texts and lines featuring non-smooth textures, th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Creative City: An Innovative Digital Leadership Program for City Decision Makers
As cities have become more advanced through the emergence of new technologies and Smart Cities solutions, there is a greater necessity to unlock the true potential of cities based not only on the technological...
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Approaching a Chinese Cultural Transferring Design Model Through Analysis of Culturally Oriented Design and Its Context
This paper deals with the case studies and criteria applied to them in terms of Chinese culturally orientated design, in order to test the author’s hypotheses about cultural reflections. It develops a three-la...
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Study of Usability Evaluation on Display Interface for Intelligent Electric Cooker
With the development of technology, the electric cookers have become more and more powerful, more and more complex, then bring new usability problems, such as difficult operation, unclear of function meaning. ...
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Uncovering Locally Discriminative Structure for Feature Analysis
Manifold structure learning is often used to exploit geometric information among data in semi-supervised feature learning algorithms. In this paper, we find that local discriminative information is also of imp...
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Context as a Service: Realizing Internet of Things-Aware Processes for the Independent Living of the Elderly
The Internet of Things (IoT) embodies the evolution from systems that link digital documents to systems that relate digital information with real-world physical items. It provides the infrastructure to transpa...
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ICT Access in Libraries for Elders
The ability to use information and communication technologies (ICT) is becoming a necessity. Older users are one of the fastest growing segment of ICT users but many still face barriers in ICT use. Libraries a...
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Exploring How People Collaborate with a Stranger:
We explored human-to-human communication when two people collaboratively attempt to reproduce an abstract painting. We examined the effects of friendship (i.e., stranger versus friend) and the task’s three pha...
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Unsupervised Feature Analysis with Class Margin Optimization
Unsupervised feature selection has been attracting research attention in the communities of machine learning and data mining for decades. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised feature selection method seek...
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Erratum: Different ICT Competency but Similar Pattern between Students with/without Learning Disabilities?
Of the paper “Different ICT Competency but Similar Pattern between Students with/without Learning Disabilities?” on pages 528-531 of this publication, the name of the author Ting-Fang Wu was inadvertently omit...
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Bottleneck Detection and Solution Recommendation for Cloud-Based Multi-Tier Application
Cloud computing has gained extremely rapid adoption in the recent years. In the complex computing environment of the cloud, automatically detecting application bottleneck points of multi-tier applications is p...
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The Designing Expressions of the Special Visual Effect Film in the Digital Technology
From 1950 when computer technology began to undertake the creation of computer art, the creation of these “digital works” became a new tool and medium for artistic expression. This also had a major impact on v...