Entity Resolution (ER) aims to identify and merge records that refer the same real-world entity. ER is typically employed as an expensive cleaning step on entire data before consuming it. Yet, determining which entities are useful once cleaned depends solely user's application, may need only a fraction of them. For instance, when dealing with Web data, we would like be able filter interest gath...

cinema industry is one of the main elements of cultural development. development of cinema industry requires the identifying the various social, economic and cultural dimensions. this paper studies the economic characteristics of cinema in iran. in this regard, it is necessary to identify the determinants of demand for movies and their demand elasticities. the computed elasticities have useful ...

in this paper the factors having influence on travel demand to iran are paper explored. the hypothesis of the research specifies the variable of “domestic upheavals and insecurity” as the most significant obstacle to expansion of the demand for travel to iran. to test the above hypothesis, first several demand models that have been proposed to study demand for tourism in different countries, ar...

Water quality indices (WQIs), which translate numerical values of several water quality characteristics of a sample into a single value, play a very important role in the monitoring, comparison and control of water quality. The WQIs of modern and post-modern times have been almost exclusively based on physical and chemical characteristics, and have seldom included 'biological' characteristics o...

Learning Factories are research and learning environments that demonstrate new concepts technologies for the industry in a practical environment. The interaction between physical virtual components is central aspect. mediation presentation usually occur directly factory thus limited time concerning user group. A factory- on-demand- can be provided by dividing virtualizing individual via contain...

Title of Thesis: ON-DEMAND MULTIPLE ACCESS FOR NEXTGENERATION NASA MISSIONS Degree candidate: Lin Lin Degree and year: Master of Science, 2001 Thesis directed by: Dr. Michael Hadjitheodosiou Dr. John S. Baras Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering There is considerable interest at this time in developing small satellites for quick-turnaround missions to investigate near-earth phenome...