Forest types mapping, is one of the most necessary elements in the forest management and silviculture treatments. Traditional methods such as field surveys are almost time-consuming and cost-intensive. Improvements in remote sensing data sources and classification –estimation methods are preparing new opportunities for obtaining more accurate forest biophysical attributes maps. This research co...

XML vocabularies can be characterized as those designed for the convenience of authors or software developers, called colloquial, and those designed to have a trivial mapping to a non-XML data structure, which we call noncolloquial. Mapping colloquial vocabularies into other formats (e.g., symbolic logic or RDF) is a powerful tool for making colloquial XML tractable. Specifying this mapping is ...

Affective design has received much attention from both academia and industries. It aims at incorporating customers’ affective needs into design elements that deliver customers’ affective satisfaction. The main challenge for affective design originates from difficulties in mapping customers’ subjective impressions, namely Kansei, to perceptual design elements. This paper intends to develop an ex...

Three theories of analogy have been proposed that are supported by computational models and data from experiments on human analogical abilities. In this article we show how these theories can be unified within a common metatheoretical framework that distinguishes among levels of informational, behavioral, and hardware constraints. This framework clarifies the distinctions among three computatio...

Glossary Anthropogeographer An individual who works at the intersection of the disciplines of anthropology and geography, using physical racial categorizations to explore the relationships between race and space. Anthropometric Mapping Mapping of individual racial traits, such as cephalic index, pigmentation, or stature. Ethnic Mapping Mapping of aspects of ethnicity, including religion, langua...

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