Salinity of soil and water is the most important agricultural hazard in arid and semi-aridregions. In saline soils, yield production directly influences by soluble salts in the root zone aswell as by shallow water table depth. The first step for reclamation of such soils is reducingsalinity to optimum level by leaching. The objective of this study was to develop a practicalmodel to estimate wat...

Service-oriented architecture facilitates the running time of interactions by using business integration on the networks. Currently, web services are considered as the best option to provide Internet services. Due to an increasing number of Web users and the complexity of users’ queries, simple and atomic services are not able to meet the needs of users; and to provide complex services, it requ...

Computational cost of metaheuristic based optimum design algorithms grows excessively with structure size. This results in computational inefficiency of modern metaheuristic algorithms in tackling optimum design problems of large scale structural systems. This paper attempts to provide a computationally efficient optimization tool for optimum design of large scale steel frame structures to AISC...

Over the years, many XML schema matching systems have been developed. A benchmark for assessing the capabilities of schema matching systems and providing uniform conditions and the same testbed for all schema matching prototypes, has become indispensable as the matching systems grow in complexity. However, developing a benchmark for the schema matching problem is very challenging, given the wid...

Speeded-Up Robust Feature (SURF) is commonly used for feature matching in stereovision because of their robustness towards scale changes and rotational changes. However, SURF feature cannot cope with large viewpoint changes or skew distortion. This paper introduces a method which can help to improve the wide baseline’s matching performance in term of accuracy by rectifying the image using two v...

In a matching and intra…rm bargaining economy with constant return to scale production and matching technologies, large …rms hire and train workers e¢ciently. The e¢ciency of the competitive economy relies on the ability of large …rm to take into account the consequences of training on the wages bargained inside the …rm. This intra…rm bargaining process solves the hold-up problem that is associ...

Spot matching is a challenging problem in two dimensional protein gel electrophoresis (2DGE) chromatography images analysis. It is necessary to provide a robust solution to the problem of querying and matching large scale for various size of 2DGE images. In this paper, we have developed a novel maximum relation spanning tree (MRST) algorithm which is capable of performing fast and accurate matc...

In a distributed and open system, such as the semantic web and many other applications like information integration, peer-peer communication, etc., the heterogeneity among the data increases enormously. To solve the heterogeneity issue various matching techniques are proposed and large-scale matching needs especially to be supported for different kinds of 1 / 4