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VELAS: a fully-distributed daily hydrologic feedback model with emphasis on vegetation, land cover, and soil water dynamics
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-15)
We present a daily hydrologic feedback model, VELAS (the VEgetation-
LAnd cover-Soil water dynamics), to simulate daily responses of hydrologic
processes including interception, runoff, evapotranspiration, infiltration, ...
Building a Knowledge Graph for Food, Energy, and Water Systems
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
A knowledge graph represents millions of facts and reliable information about people,
places, and things. Several companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have developed
knowledge graphs to better customer experience. ...
Event driven querying of semantic sensor web services
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-15)
In today's world, there is a tremendous increase in the usage of sensor technology in several fields including agriculture, medicine, and weather. Sensors either in-site or remotely placed are usually deployed in the form of sensor clusters...
InfoKiosk: An Information Kiosk With Text-Free User Interface
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)
Even though computer usage may seem very intuitive to almost everyone, they have minimum usability requirements that the user's ability to read is in the language being used. In developing countries such as India, where ...
Multi-scale analysis of urban wetland changes using satellite remote sensing techniques
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-10)
This study investigates urban wetland-cover changes in the Kansas City metropolitan area with analyses at various spatial and temporal scales. Not many studies fully addressed multi-scale urban wetland-cover dynamics in ...
A Data Science Approach to Extracting Insights About Cities and Zones Using Open Government Data
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
In this research, we introduce a system that utilizes open government data and
machine learning algorithms to extract meaningful insights about cities and zones in the
United States. It is estimated that 4% of the ...
Situation Aware Mobile Apps Framework
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-10-03)
Mobile devices, like smart phones or tablets, have become ubiquitous, with their adoption being driven by their immediacy and sensing capabilities. Applications, or apps, that run on portable computing devices have surged ...
One-Shot Learning Model for Cancer Diagnosis from Histopathological Images
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Cancer diagnosis from tissue biomarker scoring is a vital technique used in determining type and grade
of cancer. This is a significant part of workload for pathologists, the process is tedious, time
consuming, subjective, ...
Self adapting smart electrical grid
(2014-07-30)
Following the invention of electricity the electrical grid system was one of the biggest achievements of the twentieth century. It has been responsible for delivering power to millions of homes and businesses. As the demand ...
Socio-Cultural Communication System--a Communication Mechanism For Multi-Media Information Access System for Non-Literate and Linguistically Diverse Users
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2010)
Current Internet services are not optimal for the access of information for non-literate or linguistically diverse users. Almost all Internet content is available only in written form and still in a limited number of ...