This study is aimed to determine the MLU development factors by executing a Delphi Method (DM). The can contribute land-use process in thickly populated urban centers of developing countries. first its type conducted clarify urbanized settlements Sindh province, Pakistan. Karachi and Hyderabad are cities Pakistan where mixed (MLU) prevails over years. DM was attempted two rounds focusing on opi...

This paper describes the rationale, architecture, and preliminary implementation of a next generation information gathering system. The goal of this funded research is to exploit the vast amount of information sources available today on the NII including a growing number of digital libraries, independent news agencies, government agencies, as well as human experts providing a variety of service...

Social tagging, as a recent approach for creating metadata, has caught the attention of library and information science researchers. Many researchers recommend incorporating social tagging into the library environment and combining folksonomies with formal classification. However, some researchers are concerned with the quality issues of social annotation because of its uncontrolled nature. In ...

Governments worldwide, since the 1990s, have launched projects with the mission to simplify delivery of services through electronic means (Torres et al., 2005). E-government is a breakthrough of communication and transaction between a government and its citizens or government and industries. The purpose of this paper is to identify the most salient factors that are currently influencing the dev...

Majority of the million plus cities in India are facing serious problems of traffic congestion and pollution due to the unprecedented and rapid pace of urbanization in last decade. City planners are providing solution to these twin problems by developing Mass Rapid Transit System including Metro and BRT in many Indian Metropolitan cities. The availability of transit network and pedestrian acces...

Clustering is an extensively studied data mining problem in the text domains. The difficulty finds numerous applications in customer segmentation, classification, collaborative filtering, visualization, document organization, and indexing. In text mining, clustering the sentence is one of the processes and used within general text mining tasks. Several clustering methods and algorithms are used...

The primary objective of this study was to determine the variables associated with intention to consume soy products and identify key variables that could be used as targets in soy nutrition education and consumption promotion. A pre/post-test survey was used during a three session class focused on diabetes that discussed and introduced soy foods. The Theory of Planned Behavior framed the quest...

People usually are aware of the privacy risks of publishing photos online, but these risks are less evident when sharing human genomes. Modern photos and sequenced genomes are both digital representations of real lives. They contain private information that may compromise people’s privacy, and still, their highest value is most of times achieved only when sharing them with others. In this work,...

Research into computer vision techniques has far outpaced the development of interfaces (such as APIs) to support the techniques’ accessibility, especially to developers who are not experts in the field. We present a new description-based interface designed to be mainstream-developer-friendly while retaining sufficient power and flexibility to solve a wide variety of computer vision problems. T...

The frequent appearance of empirical rank-frequency laws, such as Zipf's law, in a wide range of domains reinforces the importance of understanding and modeling these laws and rank-frequency distributions in general. In this spirit, we utilize a simple stochastic cascade process to simulate several empirical rank-frequency distributions longitudinally. We focus especially on limiting the proces...