Metropolitan areas in the world. Delineation and population trends

AI Moreno-Monroy, M Schiavina, P Veneri - Journal of Urban Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel method to delineate metropolitan areas–or functional urban
areas (FUAs)–in the entire world and assesses their population trends. According to the …

Optimal conservation of migratory species

TG Martin, I Chadès, P Arcese, PP Marra… - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Background Migratory animals comprise a significant portion of biodiversity worldwide with
annual investment for their conservation exceeding several billion dollars. Designing …

Multi-objective path planner for an agricultural mobile robot in a virtual greenhouse environment

MSA Mahmud, MSZ Abidin, Z Mohamed… - … and electronics in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Robotics in agriculture has experienced enormous development in the past decade. In order
to accomplish numerous agricultural tasks, the order in which the crop is covered is …

BAHG: Back-bone-assisted hop greedy routing for VANET's city environments

PK Sahu, EHK Wu, J Sahoo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using advanced wireless local area network technologies, vehicular ad hoc networks
(VANETs) have become viable and valuable for their wide variety of novel applications, such …

Assessing OpenStreetMap data using intrinsic quality indicators: an extension to the QGIS processing toolbox

SS Sehra, J Singh, HS Rai - Future Internet, 2017 - mdpi.com
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a recent emerging area in computational science. There are
several unexplored issues in the quality assessment of OSM. Firstly, researchers are using …

Leveraging statistical machine learning to address failure localization in optical networks

T Panayiotou, SP Chatzis… - Journal of Optical …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work we consider the problem of fault localization in transparent optical networks. We
attempt to localize single-link failures by utilizing statistical machine learning techniques …

Topographic path analysis for modelling dispersal and functional connectivity: Calculating topographic distances using the topoDistance r package

IJ Wang - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating biologically meaningful geographic distances is essential for research in
disciplines ranging from landscape genetics to community ecology. Topographically …

Computer stereo vision for autonomous driving

R Fan, L Wang, MJ Bocus, I Pitas - arxiv preprint arxiv:2012.03194, 2020 - arxiv.org
As an important component of autonomous systems, autonomous car perception has had a
big leap with recent advances in parallel computing architectures. With the use of tiny but full …

Effects of fishing effort allocation scenarios on energy efficiency and profitability: an individual-based model applied to Danish fisheries

F Bastardie, JR Nielsen, BS Andersen, OR Eigaard - Fisheries Research, 2010 - Elsevier
Global concerns about CO2 emissions, national CO2 quotas, and rising fuel prices are
incentives for the commercial fishing fleet industry to change their fishing practices and …

Learning analytics to predict students' performance: A case study of a neurodidactics-based collaborative learning platform

CJ Perez Sanchez, F Calle-Alonso… - Education and …, 2022 - Springer
In this work, 29 features were defined and implemented to be automatically extracted and
analysed in the context of NeuroK, a learning platform within the neurodidactics paradigm …