Purpose Conventional studies mainly classify a term’s appearance in the retrieved documents as either relevant or irrelevant for application. The purpose of this paper is to differentiate the term’s appearances in the retrieved documents in more detailed situations to generate relevance...

The need of 3D city models increases day by day. However, 3D modeling still faces some impediments to be generalized. Therefore, new solutions such as collaboration should be investigated. The paper presents a new vision of collaboration applied on 3D modeling through the definition of the...

Big Data is a radical shift or an incremental change for the existing digital infrastructures, that include the toolset used to aid the decision making process such as information systems, data repositories, formal modeling, and analysis of decisions. This work aims to provide a theoretical...

This article describes how rapidly growing data volumes require systems that have the ability to handle massive heterogeneous unstructured data sets. However, most existing mature transaction processing systems are built upon relational databases with structured data. In this article, the...

Massive data to facilitate decision making for organizations and their corporate users exist in many forms, types and formats. Importantly, the acquisition and retrieval of relevant supporting information should be timely, precise and complete. Unfortunately, due to differences in syntax and...

Healthcare providers and payers are increasingly turning to Big Data and analytics, to help them understand their patients and the context of their illnesses in more detail. Industry leaders are exploring/using Big Data to reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve patient care. The next...

Teaching files are widely used by radiologists in the diagnostic process and for student education. Most hospitals maintain an active collection of teaching files for internal purposes, but many teaching files are also publicly available online, some linked to secondary sources. However, public...

This paper presents a proposal for a data integration framework. The purpose of the framework is to locate automatically records of participants from the ALSPAC database (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children) within its counterpart GPRD database (General Practice Research Database)....

The problem of bridging the gap between relational schema and ontologies is actively investigated in the Semantic Web and business communities. The main motivations are the OBDA scenario, where a domain ontology allows to hidden the technical details of the db to end-users; and the persistent...

In the domain of E&P petroleum chain, the authors have developed a study and proposed a conceptual framework for inserting direct rock data into reservoir models, through calibration of well logs. This type of data is often ignored or manual processed in actual petroleum reservoir modeling...