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Social interactions in the Burkholderia cepacia complex : biofilms and quorum sensing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria are opportunistic pathogens that cause respiratory tract infections in susceptible patients, mainly people with cystic fibrosis. There is convincing evidence that B.
Coenye, Tom
core   +2 more sources

StreamCollab: A Streaming Crowd-AI Collaborative System to Smart Urban Infrastructure Monitoring in Social Sensing

open access: yesAAAI Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing, 2021
Social sensing has emerged as a pervasive and scalable sensing paradigm to collect observations of the physical world from human sensors. A key advantage of social sensing is its infrastructure-free nature.
Yang Zhang   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Semantics, sensors, and the social web: The live social semantics experiments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Live Social Semantics is an innovative application that encourages and guides social networking between researchers at conferences and similar events. The application integrates data and technologies from the Semantic Web, online social networks, and
A. Scherrer   +7 more
core   +6 more sources

Crowd‐sourced observations for short‐range numerical weather prediction: Report from EWGLAM/SRNWP Meeting 2019

open access: yesAtmospheric Science Letters, 2021
Crowd‐sourced observations (CSO) offer great potential for numerical weather prediction (NWP). This paper offers a synthesis of progress, challenges and opportunities in this area based on a special session of the EWGLAM Meeting in 2019, concentrating on
Kasper S. Hintz   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Method with Adaptive Graphs to Constrain Multi-View Subspace Clustering of Geospatial Big Data from Multiple Sources

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
Clustering of multi-source geospatial big data provides opportunities to comprehensively describe urban structures. Most existing studies focus only on the clustering of a single type of geospatial big data, which leads to biased results.
Qiliang Liu, Weihua Huan, Min Deng
doaj   +1 more source

Sense Making of (Social) Sustainability

open access: yesInternational Studies of Management & Organization, 2010
Although sustainability is often discussed solely in ecological terms, it cannot be disconnected from the way humans behave in their social environment. This article presents a theoretical approach toward sustainability that takes a human behavior and knowledge view on sustainability as a starting point.
Faber, Niels R.   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Enhancing Disaster Situation Awareness Through Multimodal Social Media Data: Evidence from Typhoon Haikui

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Emergency situation awareness during sudden natural disasters presents significant challenges. Traditional methods, characterized by low spatial and temporal resolution as well as coarse granularity, often fail to comprehensively capture disaster ...
Songfeng Gao   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Fog Makes Sense: Enabling Social Sensing Services With Limited Internet Connectivity

open access: yes, 2017
Social sensing services use humans as sensor carriers, sensor operators and sensors themselves in order to provide situation-awareness to applications.
Gupta, Harshit   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Live Social Semantics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Social interactions are one of the key factors to the success of conferences and similar community gatherings. This paper describes a novel application that integrates data from the semantic web, online social networks, and a real-world contact sensing ...
Alani, Harith   +5 more
core   +5 more sources

eFarm: A Tool for Better Observing Agricultural Land Systems

open access: yesSensors, 2017
Currently, observations of an agricultural land system (ALS) largely depend on remotely-sensed images, focusing on its biophysical features. While social surveys capture the socioeconomic features, the information was inadequately integrated with the ...
Qiangyi Yu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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