Visualization of spatial data uncertainties is crucial to the data understanding and exploration process. Scientific measurements, numerical simulations, and user generated content are error prone sources that gravely ...

Micro grid technology brings the opportunity to integrate renewable energies with a traditional energy mix on a regional level and to achieve specific local goals. To obtain an optimal energy mix plan, different scenarios ...

Most state-of-the-art opinion and sentiment analysis techniques were developed for customer feedback data or reviews. Applying them to another domain is often not possible because the algorithms are based on the assumption ...

In recent years, the quantity of content generated by news agencies and blogs is constantly growing, making it difficult for readers to process and understand this overwhelming amount of data. Online news aggregators present ...

The analysis and exploration of emerging threats in the Internet is important to better understand the behaviour of attackers and develop new methods to enhance cyber security. Fully automated algorithms alone are often ...

Claiming intellectual property for an invention by patents is a common way to protect ideas and technological advancements. However, patents allow only the protection of new ideas. Assessing the novelty of filed patent ...

The selection of classification models among several options with similar accuracy cannot be done through purely automated methods, and especially in scenarios in which the cost of misclassified instances is crucial, such ...

In news media, echo chambers refer to situations in which information is amplified or reinforced by communication and repetition. The characteristic of an echo chamber is, therefore, the absence of controversial discussions ...

In the research of deliberative democracy, political scientists are interested in analyzing the communication models of discussions, debates, and mediation processes with the goal of extracting reoccurring discourse patterns ...

The visualization community has developed to date many intuitions and understandings of how to judge the quality of views in visualizing data. The computation of a visualization's quality and usefulness ranges from measuring ...