The objective of this paper is to improve an organization's decision-making process for developing an enterprise data architecture. Enterprise data architectures are complex systems with multiple users who have com- peting ...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as an architectural style for distributed computing that promotes flexible application development and reuse. One of the major benefits claimed for SOA is the flexible ...

Stress is a major health concern that not only compromises our quality of life, but also affects our health and well-being. Despite its importance, our ability to objectively detect and quantify stress in a real-time, ...

This research develops crime hotspot analysis and visualization methodology that use street segments as the basic study unit. This incorporates the distance between points along a polyline rather than the standard Euclidean ...

Coastal communities are highly exposed to waves and storm surge during extreme events. One option for protecting coastal communities that has gained popularity during the last decade is the use of natural and nature-based ...

In the design process of an agent-based model the pattern chosen for the activation of the agents is an important choice. Every model design must include – either explicitly or implicitly – the conditions under which ...

The diagnostic studies in which each patient has several diseased and nondiseased observations generate clustered ROC data. Within the same cluster, observations are naturally correlated, and the cluster size may be random. ...

Data analytics applications can often be modeled as a directed acyclic graph (DAG), where the nodes are fine-grained tasks and the edges are task dependencies. A DAG scheduler can be used to distribute the tasks to cloud ...