Problem, research strategy, and findings Big data promises new insights for planning but threatens to exclude community expertise from knowledge creation decision-making processes. Participatory methods are needed ensure that big is marshaled address problems of importance communities, hypotheses interpretations shaped by evidence lived experience, results ultimately useful residents. In this s...

In this paper, we consider linear precoders for Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation with iterative decoding (BICM-ID) on AWGN channels. In a BICM-ID set-up, the encoder and symbol mapper are separated by an interleaver in order to achieve better performance and to allow a simplified (yet sub-optimal) decoding strategy. However, careful design of the symbol mapper is imperative in order to achieve ...

The construction of Mapper has emerged in the last decade as a powerful and effective topological data analysis tool that approximates and generalizes other topological summaries, such as the Reeb graph, the contour tree, split, and joint trees. In this paper we study the parallel analysis of the construction of Mapper. We give a provably correct algorithm to distribute Mapper on a set of proce...

D2RQ Mapper (http://d2rq.dbcls.jp/) is a web application to edit a mapping file of D2RQ, a middleware to bridge Relational Database (RDB) and Resource Description Framework (RDF). A D2RQ mapping file defines how to map data stored in an RDB to RDF in the turtle format, and to write it by a text editor is cumbersome. D2RQ Mapper assists you to edit it by contextualizing input forms in the mappin...

Knowledge of human origins, migrations, and expansions is greatly enhanced by the availability of large datasets of genetic information from different populations and by the development of bioinformatic tools used to analyze the data. We present Ancestry Mapper, which we believe improves on existing methods, for the assignment of genetic ancestry to an individual and to study the relationships ...