The explosive growth and widespread accessibility of community contributed media content on the Internet have led to a surge of research activity in image search. Approaches that apply text search techniques for image search have achieved limited success as they entirely ignore visual content as a ranking signal. We propose an adaptive visual similarity to re-rank the text based search results....

In this paper, we argue that computers are moving towards more ubiquitous integration with more traditional human activities, such as games. As a result, we argue that there will be an emergence of “location-aware” computer games, which merge the virtual reality of computer games with the physical location of the players. We ask the question of whether such games can be considered more pleasura...

considering the importance of the impact of subsidy reform on the agricultural sector, the study aimed at understanding consequences of changes in the rates of production subsidy using general equilibrium model based on input-output table in the year 2001.the study conducted based on three scenarios containing step, down and finally removed rates of production subsidy. the effects on production...

High assurance architecture-based and component-based software development relies fundamentally on the quality of the components of which a system is composed and their configuration. Analysis over those components and their integration as a system plays a key role in the software development process. This paper describes an approach to develop and assess architecture and component-based system...

In this paper we report on an exciting exploratory experiment that lead to a number of ambient visualisations of passively sensed human activity. Ambient displays offer those around some sense of activity or information without explicitly focusing on the display itself. We present a number of radically different visualisations using forms of situated display or installation. Each tries to give ...

Computer-aided management tools or models of production systems in the manufacturing or agricultural domains generally rely implicitly on the theory of planned action. Every action is assumed to be part of an anticipated sequence leading from a current state to a predetermined goal. The main limits of this classical view are due to the difficulty to deal with unexpected changes and disturbances...

In this paper, the authors analyze the big data cloud computing platform application in performance evaluation index of regional innovation capability. Relevant domestic researches of regional innovation capability performance measures are expounded. In view of this, an evaluation index system of regional innovation capability is created, including the number of R&D personnel, input indicators ...