This paper presents a method of identifying patterns among buildings and constructing relationships between them. It is envisioned that the pattern objects not only provide operands upon which generalization can be applied, but more importantly, add a new spatial data type with specific semantics in a geospatial database. These new database objects can support spatial analysis and queries that ...

The electrocardiogram (ECG also called EKG) trace expresses cardiac features that are unique to an individual. The ECG processing followed a logical series of experiments with quantifiable metrics. Data filters were designed based upon the observed noise sources. Fiducial points were identified on the filtered data and extracted digitally for each heartbeat. From the fiducial points, stable fea...

Theme identification is one of the most fundamental tasks in qualitative research. It also is one of the most mysterious. Explicit descriptions of theme discovery are rarely found in articles and reports, and when they are, they are often relegated to appendices or footnotes. Techniques are shared among small groups of social scientists, but sharing is impeded by disciplinary or epistemological...

Being able to quickly adapt to changes in the business environment has been widely acknowledged as essential for sustainable success by business leaders. Scenario planning is recognized as an effective tool used to explore ambiguous business environment dynamics over a long time horizon and identifying ways to translate uncertainty into potential future strategies. After the potential scenarios...

1. Introduction Antonymy is a common lexical relation that is intuitively clear (if not always easy to define) for humans, but challenging for machines. In Natural Language Processing, antonymy detection has applications in tasks of understanding language, such as paraphrase detection, question answering, and textual inference. For that reason, WordNet (Fellbaum, 2005) includes some antonymy an...