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This paper proposes a new objective metric called the SEMCON to enrich existing concepts in domain ontologies for describing and organizing multimedia documents. The SEMCON model exploits the document contextually and semantically. The preprocessing module collects a document and partitions that into several passages. Then a morpho-syntatic analysis is performed on the partitioned passages and a list...
The increasing popularity of smartphones has significantly changed the way we live. Today's powerful mobile systems provide us with all kinds of convenient services. Thanks to the wide variety of available apps, it has never been so easy for people to shop, to navigate, and to communicate with others. However, for some tasks we can further improve the user experience by employing newly developed algorithms...
Home insurance is a critical issue in the state of Florida, considering that residential properties are exposed to hurricane risk each year. To assess hurricane risk and project insured losses, the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model (FPHLM) funded by the states insurance regulatory agency was developed. The FPHLM is an open and public model that offers an integrated complex computing framework that...
We are seeing a sea change down the pike in terms of financial information aggregation and consumption; this could potentially be a game changer in financial services space with focus on ability to commoditize data. Financial Services Industry deals with a tremendous amount of data that varies in its structure, volume and purpose. The data is generated in the ecosystem (its customers, its own accounts,...
Life cycle assessment (LCA) as a decision support tool for evaluating the environmental load of products has been widely used in many fields. However, applying LCA in the building industry is expensive and time consuming. This is due to the complexity of building structure along with a large amount of high-dimensional heterogeneous building data. So far building environmental impact assessment (BEIA)...
Today's industry emphasize greatly on data-driven and data engineering technologies, triggering a tremendous amount of structured and unstructured data across different domains. As a result of which, semantic information is implicitly available in the knowledge base, mainly in the form of data descriptions, and needs to be extracted automatically to better serve the users' need. But how to deliver...
With the increasing number of mobile devices, there have been many researches on searching and managing a large volume of mobile data. Most of the mobile platforms today provide users with keyword-based full text search (FTS) in order to search for mobile data. Recently, voice search interfaces have been deployed. These search methods, however, query only the keywords given as an input to local databases...
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