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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Discovery System"”.
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CINDI : Concordia Indexing and Discovery System
… becomes more critical. A number of search systems are currently available for this purpose on the Internet; examples are Lycos, Yahoo, Web Crawler, etc. However, they offer uneven search results, namely, many of them produce mishits or miss existing resources. This is due to the fact that …
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Informational Interfaces: A case study of the impact of discovery systems on biodiversity research and search at the Natural History Museum, London, UK
… articles. This study investigates the impact of discovery systems on search and research at the Natural History Museum with the objectives: to determine exact attitudes to searching for biodiversity information resources using the Library and Archives discovery system and the Data Portal; to …
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IT Systems Acquisitions: An Exploration of Two Acquisitions in a University Setting
… thesis describes the information technology system acquisition life cycle and examines two enterprise class information technology system acquisitions, Georgia Southern University’s acquisition of a new learning management system and a discovery system at the Zach S. Henderson Library at …
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A translation framework for discovering word-like units from visual scenes and spoken descriptions
… is the visible object. A multimodal word discovery system accepts, as input, a database of spoken descriptions of images (or a set of corresponding phone transcriptions) and learns a mapping from waveform segments (or phone strings) to their associated image concepts. In this thesis, we …
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A distributed architecture for mobile, location-dependent applications
… all work together in a seamlessly integrated system. Resource discovery is a key feature of pervasive computing which allows users simple and convenient access to resources. While there are several resource discovery systems in existence which are essential to pervasive computing, the support …
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Automatic semantic header generator
… becomes more critical. The existing search systems tend to generate misses and false hits due to the fact that they attempt to match the specified search terms without context in the target information resource. The COncordia INdexing and DIscovery system is an indexing system. It is a …
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Aqueduct: Task-based entry points in Android apps
… task-based app search and task entry point discovery system for Android. We search over app UI data augmented with semantic annotations to find applications and screens within those applications that can accomplish a given task. Furthermore, Aqueduct can leverage the package name and the …
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CINDI : the virtual library graphical user interface
… of the work to develop an Indexing and Searching System for the Internet called the CINDI (Concordia INdexing and DIscovery) system. It is aimed at providing a standard index scheme called Semantic-Header and informative query interface for users and providers of resources published on the …
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Integrating Haptic Feedback into Mobile Location Based Services
… Mobile Location Based Services such as knowledge discovery, pedestrian navigation and notification systems. A knowledge discovery system called the Haptic GeoWand is a low interaction system that allows users to query geo-tagged data around them by using a point-and-scan technique with their …
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Targeting PfUCHL3 Using Chemically Constrained Peptides
… enzyme acting within the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) of *Plasmodium falciparum*, the deadliest and most prominent *Plasmodium* species responsible for the transmission of malaria to humans. Malaria kills on average 450,000 people per year across 90 different countries, and there is at …
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A service-oriented approach to topology formation and resource discovery in wireless ad-hoc networks
… This thesis also addresses the issue of service discovery in mobile ad-hoc networks. We propose the use of a directory whose network location varies in an attempt to reduce traffic overhead driven by users’ hosts looking for service information. We refer to this scheme as the Service Directory …