As the number of RDF datasets published on semantic web continues to grow, it becomes increasingly important efficiently link similar entities between these datasets. However, performance existing data linking tools, often developed for general purposes, seems have reached a plateau, suggesting need more modular and efficient solutions. In this paper, we propose –and formalize in OWL– classific...

the simultaneous cross-linking and antimicrobial finishing of bleached cotton and cationized cotton by 3-chloro2-hydroxypropyl trimethyl ammonium chloride (quat-188) with butane tetracarboxylic acid and nano titanium dioxide is studied and explored in the current study. butane tetracarboxylic acid (btca) as a cross-linking agent can be linked to the cotton cellulosic chains by covalent bonds an...

In this letter, closed-form outage probability expressions are presented for an -relays dual-hop plus a direct link network, in which the decode-and-forward relaying protocol is employed. Our analysis significantly extends previous results on Rayleigh fading, considering a Nakagamifading environment with either equal or distinct second hops fading parameters to average power ratios. Various num...

The direct link communication between STAtions (STAs) is one of the techniques to improve the MAC performance of IEEE 802.11 infrastructure networks. For the efficient direct link communication, in the literature, the simultaneous polling method was proposed to allow the multiple direct data communication to be performed simultaneously. However, the efficiency of the simultaneous polling method...

Averaging the estimates of a number of individuals has been shown to produce an estimate that is generally more accurate than those of the individuals themselves. Similarly, averaging responses from a single individual can also lead to a more accurate answer. How can we best combine estimates within and between individuals to create an accurate group estimate? We report empirical results from a...

[1] Major uncertainties exist for observing and modeling ice content inside deep convective clouds (DCC). One of the difficulties has been the lack of characterization of vertical profiles of cloud hydrometeor phase. Here we propose a technique to estimate the DCC glaciation temperature using passive remote sensing data. It is based on a conceptual model of vertical hydrometeor size profiles in...

Identifying people in video broadcast is by nature a multimodal task: persons can be identified thanks to biometric information (face or voice), or thanks to a reference to their identity in the overlaid text or the speech content. In the framework of the French evaluation program Repere, this paper presents a method for identifying speakers in videos without any a-priori models, based only on ...

Stress induced by various types of situation leads to vocal signal modifications. Previous studies have indicated that stressed speech is associated with a higher fundamental frequency and noticeable changes in vowel spectrum. This paper presents pitchand spectral-based analyses of stressed speech corpora drawn from both artificial and real situations. The laboratory corpus is obtained by means...

This year the RPI-BLENDER team participated in the following four tasks: English Entity Linking, Regular Slot Filling, Temporal Slot Filling and Slot Filling Validation. The major improvement was made for Regular Slot Filling and Slot Filling validation. We developed a fresh system for both tasks. Our approach embraces detailed linguistic analysis and knowledge discovery, and advanced knowledge...

When I was appointed Director of California PATH in summer 2003, it was with the specific mandate to help re-structure the research center, to align more closely with the objectives of our main sponsor, Caltrans. The re-organized PATH includes four research programs: Traffic Operations, Transit Operations, Traffic Safety and Policy. The reason for this restructuring was to provide a more direct...