Very large data sets are the common rule in automated mapping, GIS, remote sensing, and what we can name geo-information. Indeed, in 1983 Landsat was already delivering gigabytes of data, and other sensors were in orbit or ready for launch, and a tantamount of cartographic data was being digitized. The retrospective paper revisits several issues that geo-information sciences had to face from th...

Experimental economics represents a strong growth industry. In the past several decades the method has expanded beyond intellectual curiosity, now meriting consideration alongside the other more traditional empirical approaches used in economics. Accompanying this growth is an influx of new experimenters who are in need of straightforward direction to make their designs more powerful. This stud...

In these days, geo-spatial technologies, as components in geo-web, according to extension of web 2.0 or more paradigms are diversified and emerged: software as a service, asynchronous particle update, mashup, open sources, rich user experiences, collaborate tagging, and structured information. These are closely related and linked to each other, so as to design and implementation stages for a gi...

Incomplete Nature is about an important and difficult subject: how life and mind evolved from a world of inanimate matter. It is also about what are the right concepts to use in understanding the nature and workings of life and mind. We need to be able to conceive them in such a way that it becomes intelligible that they could have arisen naturally from the kinds of inanimate processes describe...

Parameter estimation of the spatial auto-regression model (SAR) is important because we can model the spatial dependency, i.e., spatial autocorrelation present in the geo-spatial data. SAR is a popular data mining technique used in many geo-spatial application domains such as regional economics, ecology, environmental management, public safety, public health, transportation, and business. Howev...

The recent war in Ukraine has led to the creation of a new world trade order. This article explores emergence order post ongoing with nations changing their sails, which however may not be sustainable option long run due economic considerations. While western by USA have imposed sanctions against trading Russia, India is reticent on same citing reasons. On contrary, it considering situation as ...

As in other areas, technological transformations, along with their high speed, have been incorporated into weapons systems throughout the global defense industry. However, it is not possible to know what extent new leaderships are undermining foundations of those that existed until now. Along this, changes geo-political and geo-economics spheres generating a reality which aspects such as intern...

Recent work in I.O. has emphasized the importance of firmand plant-level heterogeneity in total factor productivity. In this paper, we estimate establishmentlevel productivity for the entire U.S. manufacturing sector from 1976 until 1999 by using the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Research Database combined with the Bureau’s Longitudinal Business Database. We characterize the time series properti...

Jingfeng Xia is Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University; e-mail: [email protected]. Ying Liu is a Doctoral Student in the School of Economics and Management at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2013 Jingfeng Xia and Ying Liu, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3....