This paper describes a set of experiments for monolingual English retrieval at GEO-CLEF 2005. We evaluate a technique for spatial retrieval based on named entity tagging, toponym resolution, and re-ranking by means of geographic filtering. To this end, we present a series of systematic experiments in the Vector Space paradigm. We investigate plain bag-of-word versus a kind of phrasal retrieval,...

The Ca na dian Cor dil lera, where the Juan de Fuca oce anic plate is cur rently be ing subducted be neath the North Amer i can con ti nent, is com prised of oce anic and is land arc ter ranes accreted to the west ern edge of an ces tral North Amer ica since the Neoproterozoic (Gabrielse and Yorath, 1991; Mon ger et al., 1972; Mon ger and Price, 1979; Mon ger et al., 1982). The Me so zoic Necha...

In this paper we present a simulator for GEO or MEObased communication systems. This simulator implements variable delay and bit error rate simulation and can be used to analyze communication scenarios involving one or more GEO/MEO or LEO spacecrafts and ground stations. First the paper gives a short overview over the original LEO simulator design from which the GEO simulator was derived. Then ...

The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) repository at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) archives and freely disseminates microarray and other forms of high-throughput data generated by the scientific community. The database has a minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME)-compliant infrastructure that captures fully annotated raw and processed data. Several data ...

A Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) model is defined and the architecture of a GIR system, named Geo-Finder, is described. The GIR system is constituted by two main modules. The geo-indexing module applies bipolar criteria to automatically identify the geo-reference focus (footprint) of textual documents. The geo-retrieval module applies a context dependent matching function to evaluate qu...

Geo-registration is the task of assigning geospatial coordinates to the pixels of an image and placing them in a geographic coordinate system. However, the process of geo-registration can impair the quality of the image. This paper studies this topic by applying a comparison methodology to uncorrected and geo-registered airborne hyperspectral images obtained from the RIT SHARE 2012 data set. Th...

Consider the Geo/Geo/1 queue with impatient customers and let X reflect the patience distribution. We show that systems with a smaller patience distribution X in the convex-ordering sense give rise to fewer abandonments (due to impatience), irrespective of whether customers become patient when entering the service facility. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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