A C++ language-based software tool for retrieving land surface temperature (LST) from the data of Landsat TM/ ETM+ band6 is developed. It has two main functional modules: (1) Three methods to compute the ground emissivity based on land use/cover classification image, NDVI image and the ratio values of vegetation and bare ground and (2) Converting digital numbers (DNs) from TM/ETM+ band6 to LST....

The present paper describes the platform for building spoken language systems being designed and implemented within the EU-language engineering project REWARD. The platform collects and streamlines a set of software tools such that they together constitute the basic modules needed to enable dialogue developers to establish new dialogue applications with only minimal knowledge outside their own ...

If we consider knowledge to be the result of a negotiation process about references and meaning between individuals, then, we should consider it also a collective or social property. This view underlies numerous initiatives worldwide providing unrestricted online access to educational content, software tools, and implementation resources, commonly referred to as Open Educational Resources (OER)...

Recently, geospatial abduction was introduced by the authors in (Shakarian, Subrahmanian, and Sapino 2010) as a way to infer unobserved geographic phenomena from a set of known observations and constraints between the two. In this paper, we introduce the SCARES2 software tool which applies geospatial abduction to the environment of Afghanistan. Unlike previous work, where we looked for small we...

The object of this paper is to present some early analysis of interview and focus group data about how existing teacher educators at The Open University (UK) approach, understand, and deploy learning design and the additional support and tools they would find helpful. This represents a component of a broader institutional project that seeks to develop a learning design tool for the support and ...

As spoken dialogue systems mature, the need for rapid development tools increases. We describe such a tool that is currently being used for commercial design, specification and evaluation, and that is in the process of being developed into a complete case tool.

This tutorial presents the state-of-the-art research that lies at the intersection of two hot topics in the data management community: (1) social networking and (2) mobility. In this tutorial, we give an overview of existing research work, systems, and applications related to both social networking and mobility. In addition, we introduce several resources (i.e., datasets, software tools) as wel...

While there are many books on OO analysis, few formalize their underlying notions. For most practitioners, this is not a problem. However, building meta-CASE tools, defining repository structures, and comparing OO notations requires an exacting approach. Everything must be clear and unambiguous. One way to ensure a clarity of ideas is through mathematical formalism. This paper is an initial att...

We consider the problem of scientific literature search, and we suggest that citation relations between publications can be very helpful in the systematic retrieval of scientific literature. We introduce a new software tool called CitNetExplorer that can be used for citation-based scientific literature retrieval. To demonstrate the use of CitNetExplorer, we employ the tool to identify publicati...