We present INDUS (Intelligent Data Understanding System), a federated, query-centric system for knowledge acquisition from autonomous, distributed, semantically heterogeneous data sources that can be viewed (conceptually) as tables. INDUS employs ontologies and inter-ontology mappings, to enable a user or an application to view a collection of such data sources (regardless of location, internal...

The term “bioarchaeology” has its intellectual origins in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1970s. Its meaning has evolved over the years (see Buikstra, 2006: xvii–xix), but it is now generally agreed to refer to reconstructions of past people’s lives based on a multidisciplinary analysis of archaeological human remains. Research designs are based on individual‐ or population‐leve...

The expansion of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates (seventh to ninth centuries AD) brought diverse regions from Indus Valley Eurasian Steppe under hegemonic control. An overlooked aspect this political process is subsequent translocation species across ecological zones. This article explores introduction in early Islamic world, presenting first archaeological evidence for domestic water buffal...

In the Leh valley, apart from river Indus, several nalas have a great significance on development of number villages and settlement areas. The present work is an effort to illustrate pivotal role Stakmo nala in establishment village. study also seeks emphasis necessity basin management sustain natural resources for existence villages. Various problems related with city its adjacent area been st...

This paper motivates and describes the data integration component of INDUS (Intelligent Data Understanding System) environment for data-driven information extraction and integration from heterogeneous, distributed, autonomous information sources. The design of INDUS is motivated by the requirements of applications such as scientific discovery, in which it is desirable for users to be able to ac...

Pakistan, which occupies the easternmost part of the Gigirist– Euphrates and Indus basin, is a country with strong cultural traditions, going back to the early Indus Valley civilization of Moen-jo-Daro and the Graeco-Buddhist Gandharan cultures. Pakistan became independent in 1947 and occupies an area of 852 392 km. It is located on the Arabian Sea, bordered by India to the east and Iran to the...

In 1962, the historian A. B. L. Awasthi wrote, “the Turkish conquest of India began with the Arab conquest of Sind.” The sentiment expresses a common teleology according to which Muslims, irregardless of their ethnicity, linguistic identities, or specific sectarian affiliations, acted in concert across more than five centuries to affect a “slow progress of Islamic power” in South Asia as D. R. ...

Flood monitoring was conducted using multi-sensor data from space-borne optical, and microwave sensors; with cross-validation by ground-based rain gauges and streamflow stations along the Indus River; Pakistan. First; the optical imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) was processed to delineate the extent of the 2010 flood along Indus River; Pakistan. Moreover; t...