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  • Metals immobilization and removal rates of Se(IV) and Se(VI) by steel slag fines media 
    Wazne, M.; Jagupilla, S.C.; Grubb, D.G. (ASCE, 2017-07-21)
    Batch kinetics and column studies were conducted using freshly crushed steel slag fines (SSF) media to immobilize Se(IV) and Se(VI). The SSF media was characterized as USCS SP type soil with <5% passing the No. 200 (0.075 ...
  • Integrated demand estimation and traffic operations analysis approach for managed lane facilities 
    El Khoury, John; Bloomberg, Loren D. (Transportation Research Board, 2017-07-21)
    To improve congested freeways without adding lanes, many agencies are studying managed lanes, including high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes or congestion-priced lanes. Although some elements of managed lanes have been researched ...
  • Development of a demand uncertainty-based model to estimate network reliability 
    El Khoury, John; Sobh, Ali Soltani; Fishelson, James; Heaslip, Kevin (Transportation Research Board, 2017-07-21)
    This paper provides a discussion on network reliability, which is a subset of resilience. Past research shows how better understanding reliability and identifying ways to improve it can help a system’s response to a disaster, ...
  • Passive, decentralized, and fully autonomous intersection access control 
    Khoury, John; Khoury, Joud (IEEE, 2017-07-20)
    Current research on autonomous intersection management makes a set of assumptions including active Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) or Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications, and/or centralized control. While they enhance ...
  • Evacuation of a highly congested urban city 
    El Khoury, John; Arnaout, Jean-Paul M.; El Khoury, Caline (2017-07-20)
    For a given transportation network, evacuation route planning identifies routes and route schedules to minimize the time to evacuate the vulnerable population due to an imminent disaster. In this paper, we present a ...
  • A practical routing model for optimized pavement data collection 
    Bazi, Gabriel; El Khoury, John; Srour, F. Jordan (SSRN, 2017-07-07)
    Federal laws require regular condition reporting for portions of the national highway system. Most agencies use instrumented vehicles to collect data on and report the required information. The routing of these vehicles, ...
  • Approximate XML structure validation 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Traina, Caetano; Traina, Agma J.M.; Fileto, Renato (2017-07-06)
  • XML grammar matching and comparison 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Yetongnon, Kokou (2017-07-06)
    XML grammar matching has found considerable interest recently, due to the growing number of heterogeneous XML documents on the web, and the increasing need to integrate, and consequently search and retrieve XML documents ...
  • Demo of the SICOS tool for social image cluster-based organization and search 
    Tekli, Joe; Ayoub, Issa; Codouni, Karl J. (IEEE, 2017-07-05)
    This paper briefly describes and evaluates SICOS, a tool for Social Image Cluster-based Organization and Search, allowing to group together images sharing similar semantic and visual features, to simplify their organization ...
  • Semantic and structure based XML similarity 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Yetongnon, Kokou (2017-07-05)
  • SemIndex 
    Tekli, Joe; Chbeir, Richard; Luo, Yi; Yetongnon, Kokou; Ibanez, Carlos Raymundo; Traina, Agma J.M.; Traina, Caeteno; Al Assad, Marc (Springer, 2017-07-05)
    This paper focuses on the important problem of semantic-aware search in textual (structured, semi-structured, NoSQL) databases. This problem has emerged as a required extension of the standard containment keyword based ...
  • Towards efficient horizontal multimedia database fragmentation using semantic-based predicates implication 
    Tekli, Joe; Getahun, Fekade; Atnafu, Solomon; Chbeiru, Richard (2017-07-05)
    Partitioning techniques are traditionally used in distributed system design to reduce accesses to irrelevant information by grouping data frequently accessed together in specific fragments. Here, we address the primary ...
  • Resolving XML semantic ambiguity 
    Tekli, Joe; Charbel, Nathalie; Chbeir, Richard; Tekli, Gilbert (2017-07-05)
    XML semantic-aware processing has become a motivating and important challenge in Web data management, data processing, and information retrieval. While XML data is semi-structured, yet it remains prone to lexical ...
  • SVG-to-RDF image semantization 
    Tekli, Joe; Salameh, Khouloud; Chbeir, Richard (Springer, 2017-07-05)
    The goal of this work is to provide an original (semi-automatic) annotation framework titled SVG-to-RDF whichconverts a collection of raw Scalable vector graphic (SVG) images into a searchable semantic-based RDF graph ...
  • Toward RDF normalization 
    Tekli, Joe; Ticona-Herrera, Regina; Chbeir, Richard; Laborie, Sebastien; Dongo, Irvin; Guzman, Renato (Springer, 2017-07-05)
    Billions of RDF triples are currently available on the Web through the Linked Open Data cloud (e.g., DBpedia, LinkedGeoData and New York Times). Governments, universities as well as companies (e.g., BBC, CNN) are also ...
  • Towards digital image accessibility for blind users via vibrating touch screen 
    Tekli, J.; Chbeir, R.; Ghannam, C.; Issa, Y. B.; Awada, A. (IEEE, 2017-07-05)
    The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates at 285 million the number of people affected by visual deficiencies, among which 39 millions are totally blind. In our modern society saturated with visual media tools and ...
  • XBeGene 
    Tekli, J.; Harazaki, M.; Yokoyama, S.; Fukuta, N.; Chbeir, R.; Ishikawa, H. (Scopus, 2017-07-04)
    XML datasets of various sizes and properties are needed to evaluate the correctness and efficiency of XML-based algorithms and applications. While several downloadable datasets can be found online, these are predefined by ...
  • Evaluation of touch screen vibration accessibility for blind users 
    Tekli, Joe; Awada, Amine; Bou Issa, Youssef; Chbeir, Richard (ACM, 2017-07-04)
    In this demo paper, we briefly present our experimental prototype, entitled EVIAC (EValuation of VIbration Accessibility), allowing visually impaired users to access simple contour-based images using vibrating touch ...
  • Semantic to intelligent web era 
    Tekli, Joe; Abou Rjeily, Antoine; Chbeir, Richard; Tekli, Gilbert; Houngue, Pelagie; Yetongnon, Kokou; Abebe, Minale Ashagrie (ACM, 2017-07-04)
    The Web has known a very fast evolution: going from the Web 1.0, known as Web of Documents where users are merely consumers of static information, to the more dynamic Web 2.0, known as social or collaborative Web where ...
  • Toward enhancing web accessibility for blind users through the semantic web 
    Tekli, Joe; Tekli, Gilbert; Semaan, Bernard; Bou Issa, Youssef; Chbeir, Richard (IEEE, 2017-07-04)
    The problems of Web data accessibility and navigation for blind users have become an active research field for the past decade. Many techniques have been created to solve them, some are hardware based and others are software ...

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