This paper describes the research carried out within the framework of the Ecological Economical Zoning of Minas Gerais (ZEE-MG) to model vegetation vulnerability derived by a number of spatial inference methods. Methods based on weighted overlay, fuzzy logic, and neural networks were compared in terms of visual similarity between maps, the degree of restrictiveness concerning vulnerability, and...

Water loss can be minimized and conserve through constructing small storage dams for various irrigation purposes to support local livelihood. Geographic information system provides powerful techniques for many hydrological modeling and suitable dam site selection. The current study explored potential sites for small storage dams to meet agricultural requirements in district Malakand, Khyber Puk...

Tree depth and load balancing are two main metrics in overlay multicast network. Optimizing the two metrics with lightweight overhead is important for live media streaming. This paper proposes one scheme to construct optimized overlay multicast with short tree depth and load balancing via short random walk. The key idea is the preferential random walk based on fitness function in which the tree...

Abstract The current study aims to create a land use suitability map for the Demirci district of Manisa province in which Analytical Hierarchy Process, one multi-criteria decision-making techniques, and Weighted Overlay methods are used. Eleven factors (soil, LCC, OSC, erosion, soil depth, elevation, slope, aspect, geomorphology, temperature, precipitation) affecting were determined according p...

An appropriate structural superposition identifies similarities and differences between homologous proteins that are not evident from sequence alignments alone. We have coupled our Gaussian-weighted RMSD (wRMSD) tool with a sequence aligner and seed extension (SE) algorithm to create a robust technique for overlaying structures and aligning sequences of homologous proteins (HwRMSD). HwRMSD over...