Objective: The aim of this study is to provide a management plan for the Sykan watershed of Darre shahr city located in Ilam province using GIS in land use planning. Methods: For land using of Sykan watershed of Ilam province with about 9 hectares area, map of classes, elevation, percent slope, geographical aspects, soil characteristics, vegetation density and the final map units were combined ...

This paper examines biologically inspired cognitive map models, which provide an artificial navigating agent with a topological map of places after an exploration and learning phase in a previously unknown environment. The evaluation requires analytical methods that either rate the cognitive map on the basis of the map’s features, or that rate the observed behaviour of the navigating agent. Som...

the aim of this paper is to construct a strategy map for a manufacturing company. to do so,based on the four aspects of the balanced scordcard, key performance indicators(kpi) were selected by a committee of experts. then, the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (dematel) method was used to determind the type and intensity of relationships between key performance indicators and focu...

a review of damages caused by landslide shows the need for studying effective parameters in landslide occurrence and prediction. this study aims to improve landslide prediction results for tutkabon region in gilan province. to this end, shannon entropy theory was employed for modeling and considering data uncertainty. slope, height, geomorphologic conditions, earth’s curve, closeness to river, ...

Personalized study planning framework consists four graphs for personalized study planning: a graph representing a conceptual structure of study program; a graph representing study course; a graph visualizing each topic of study course using concept map; a graph representing learning objects. This paper describes third graph – a graph for study course topic structure displaying and knowledge as...

Marginal MAP is a key task in Bayesian inference and decision-making. It is known to be very difficult in general, particularly because the evaluation of each MAP assignment requires solving an internal summation problem. In this paper, we propose a best-first search algorithm that provides anytime upper bounds for marginal MAP in graphical models. It folds the computation of external maximizat...

Depth map upsampling is an approach to increase the spatial resolution of depth maps obtained from ToF (Time of Flight) cameras. Since depth map quality directly affects 3D perception of stereoscopic image, applying different depth upsampling methods to a low resolution depth map causes a variety of perceptions of the stereoscopic images. In this paper, we investigate the relation between objec...

In the framework of kit-build concept map, (1) a goal map is prepared by a teacher, (2) parts of the map is generated by decomposing the goal map, and then, (3) a learner makes a map (a learner map) by combining the parts. The learner map is diagnosed by comparing with the goal map. The differences between the learner map and the goal map should be resolved by the learner to complete the learne...

Please cite this article in press as: Stoter, J., et al ment and Urban Systems (2009), doi:10.1016/j.c This paper presents a methodology developed for a study to evaluate the state of the art of automated map generalization in commercial software without applying any customization. The objectives of this study are to learn more about generic and specific requirements for automated map generaliz...