the aim of this work is to examine the feasibilities of the support vector machines (svms) and k-nearest neighbor (k-nn) classifier methods for the classification of an aquifer in the khuzestan province, iran. for this purpose, 17 groundwater quality variables including ec, tds, turbidity, ph, total hardness, ca, mg, total alkalinity, sulfate, nitrate, nitrite, fluoride, phosphate, fe, mn, cu, ...

We propose a nonparametric cluster algorithm based on local medians. Each observation is substituted by its local median and this new observation moves toward the peaks and away from the valleys of the distribution. The process is repeated until each observation converges to a fixpoint. We obtain a partition of the sample based on the convergence points. Our algorithm determines the number of c...

Peer to peer (P2P) systems are traditionally designed to scale to a large number of nodes. However, we focus on scenarios where the sharing is effected only among neighbors. Localized sharing is particularly attractive in scenarios where wide area network connectivity is undesirable, expensive or unavailable. On the other hand, local neighbors may not offer the wide variety of objects possible ...