Sciweavers

162 search results - page 10 / 33
» The place of place in geographical IR
Sort
View
COSIT
2003
Springer
151views GIS» more  COSIT 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
Landscape Categories in Yindjibarndi: Ontology, Environment, and Language
This paper describes categories for landscape elements in the language of the Yindjibarndi people, a community of Indigenous Australians. Yindjibarndi terms for topographic featur...
David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk
GIS
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Analysis of community-contributed space- and time-referenced data
Space- and time-referenced data published on the Web by general people can be viewed in a dual way: as independent spatiotemporal events and as trajectories of people in the geogr...
Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Peter Bak, S...
ICWSM
2010
15 years 7 months ago
Tweeting from the Town Square: Measuring Geographic Local Networks
This paper examines tweets about two geographically local events--a shooting and a building collapse--that took place in Wichita, Kansas and Atlanta, Georgia, respectively. Most I...
Sarita Yardi, Danah Boyd
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
The resilience of WDM networks to probabilistic geographical failures
—Telecommunications networks, and in particular optical WDM networks, are vulnerable to large-scale failures of their physical infrastructure, resulting from physical attacks (su...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Alon Efrat, Shashidhara K. Ganj...
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
16 years 16 days ago
Maximizing Transport Capacity for Geographic Transmission on Nakagami-m Channels
—In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), conventional packet forwarding schemes that pre-select the next-hop receivers for a packet may fail if the channel coherence time is on the o...
Tathagata D. Goswami, John M. Shea, Tan F. Wong, M...