Web pages are highly dynamic and it’s difficult to retrieve the relevant web pages in top 10 search results. This is based on some ranking mechanism incorporated retrieval system. The Retrieval system is designed for ranking the relevant web pages for user query. Usually, the retrieval...

Purpose – The main obstacle in realising semantic‐based image retrieval from the web is that it is difficult to capture semantic description of an image in low‐level features. Text‐based keywords can be generated from web documents to capture semantic information for narrowing down the...

The knowledge discovery from large database is useful for decision making in industry real-time problems. Given a large voluminous transaction database, the knowledge is discovered by extracting maximal pattern after some analysis. Various methods have been proposed for extracting maximal...

"This book explores text based information retrieval, content based image retrieval using shape features, fuzzy object shape for image retrieval, encoding and indexing fuzzy object shape for image retrieval, common bin similarity measure for matching structural difference features, and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper to develop a novel strategic approach to handle corrective maintenance procedure in the event of a breakdown/disruption of service. A proposal to minimize the recovery time and the breakdown cost in the system in construction plant is presented....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a systematic strategic approach to handle corrective maintenance onto the failures/breakdowns of construction equipment. For the maintenance crew/team, a breakdown code management is proposed, which will provide focused and unambiguous approach...

The policy formulation for cooking energy substitution by renewables is addressed in multi-criteria context. A survey is conducted to know the perceptions of different decision making groups on present dissemination of various cooking energy alternatives in India. Nine cooking energy...

The needs of cooking energy in households can be supplemented by parabolic solar cooker (PSC). Policy for energy substitution by renewables has to consider many conflicting socio-economic issues. To know the perceptions of decision-makers and users, a survey is conducted to evaluate nine cooking...