Recent theory and experimental work in metapopulations and metacommunities demonstrates that long-term persistence is maximized when the rate at which individuals disperse among patches within the system is intermediate; if too low, local extinctions are more frequent than recolonizations, increasing the chance of regional-scale extinctions, and if too high, dynamics exhibit region-wide synchro...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between local government services and the overall satisfaction of users with the e–recruitment website (e–job website) in Taiwan. A two–dimensional mean value matrix (TDMVM) technique was used to explore the identification, classification, and application of website service quality. The results show that the asymmetrical relationship betw...

Attribute based encryption (ABE) is a good way to achieve flexible and secure access control to data, and attribute revocation is the extension of the attribute-based encryption, and the keyword search is an indispensable part for cloud storage. The combination of both has an important application in the cloud storage. In this paper, we construct a searchable attribute-based encryption scheme w...

Attributes, a.k.a. slots or properties, are the main mechanism used to define associations between concepts or individuals modeling real world entities in a knowledge base. Traditionally, an attribute is defined by an explicit statement that specifies the name of the attribute and the entities it associates. This has three main limitations: (i) it is not easy to apply to large amounts of data, ...

Providing integrated access to multiple information offerings on the Web poses some fundamentally new challenges for practical federated information systems. Other than conventional databases with an explicit and rather stable schema and expressive query APIs, Web-sources deliver semi-structured data without explicit logical structure and semantics, and have rather limited query capabilities. I...

As a fundamental technique that concerns several vision tasks such as image parsing, action recognition and clothing retrieval, human pose estimation (HPE) has been extensively investigated in recent years. To achieve accurate and reliable estimation of the human pose, it is well-recognized that the clothing attributes are useful and should be utilized properly. Most previous approaches, howeve...

avo analysis is a technique which is widely used in industry and is applied on seismic prestack data. results from changes in seismic wave reflection amplitude versus offset can be used in extracting elastic properties and hence lithology and reservoirs pore fluid identification. before performing avo analysis studies, processing steps should be ensured that changes in reflection amplitude are ...

During an architectural evolution of a component-based software, certain quality attributes may be weakened. This is due to the lack of an explicit definition of the links between these non-functional characteristics and the architectural decisions implementing them. In this paper, we present a solution that aims at assisting the software maintainer during an evolution activity on his demand. I...

Jasmine/C is a C-based database proqramninq language that allows the handling of persistent objects in Jasmine databases. The language is used to write methods for objects and application programs. Both navigational and associative access to objects are supported. Dot notation is used for Jasmine/C queries. Attributes of different (but linked) objects are concatenated in SQL-like queries free o...

Graph drawing is increasingly considering the embedding and drawing of multivariate or highly attributed graphs. The direct application of classical layout methods is difficult due to limited space and encoding options as the number of attributes (dimensions) related to nodes of information increases. Data from domains including bioinformatics (metabolic networks, protein-protein interaction) a...