The suitability of the well known kernels for trees, and the lesser known SelfOrganizing Map for Structures for categorization tasks on structured data is investigated in this paper. It is shown that a suitable combination of the two approaches, by defining new kernels on the activation map of a Self-Organizing Map for Structures, can result in a system that is significantly more accurate for c...

In the broadest sense, the term telework refers to organizational work [email protected] outside of the normal organizational confines of space and time, augmented by computer and communications technology. While most of the interest in telework has been confined to “telecommuting” or working from home, very little research has been done on the other-forms of telework. Beyond telecommuting, this paper ...

Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Glashuettenstrasse 5, 96181 Rauhenebrach, Germany UFZ – Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Dept. of Conservation Biology, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany IBE, Landscape Ecology Group, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, PO Box 2503, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany UFZ – Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Dept. of Community Ec...

The usefulness ofemail has been tempered by its role in the widespread distribution ofspam and malicious content. Security solutions have .focused on filtering out malicious payloads and weblinksfrom email; the potential dangers of email go past these boundaries: harmless-looking emails can carry dangerous, hidden botnet content. In this paper, we evaluate the suitability ofemail communicationf...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are attracting attention from the research community. One of the key issues is to provide them with privacy protection. In recent years, a huge amount of contributions has been focused on this area. Surveys and literature reviews have also been produced to give a systematic view of the different approaches taken. However, no previous work has focused on privacy m...

The goal of this analysis was to explore a GIS-based technique to assess the potentially suitable locations for monitoring air toxics pollutants emitted at landfills. Several map layers such as landfill activity, population density, and distances from other emission sources were incorporated into three different suitability modeling scenarios. The ArcGIS Spatial Analyst tool was used to perform...

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Analysis of land-use suitability requires consideration of variety of criteria. Application of GIS alone could not overcome the issue of inconsistency in expert opinion when trying to judge and assign relative importance to each of many criteria considered in a suitability analysis. To address this issue, the Analytical Hierarchy Process method is used in combination with the GIS tool. The pape...