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Image modality recognition is essential for efficient imaging workflows in current clinical environments, where multiple imaging modalities are used to better comprehend complex diseases. Emerging biomarkers from novel, rare modalities are being ...

A novel battery network system with optimal management of energy is proposed.An optimal management strategy has been implemented.The constraint differential evolution optimisation is applied to above system.The new strategy can remove more peak areas of ...

Decision making in cloud environments is quite challenging due to the diversity in service offerings and pricing models, especially considering that the cloud market is an incredibly fast moving one. In addition, there are no hard and fast rules; each ...

Language change and innovation is constant in online and offline communication, and has led to new words entering people's lexicon and even entering modern day dictionaries, with recent additions of 'e-cig' and 'vape'. However the manual work required ...

Churners are users who stop using a given service after previously signing up. In the domain of telecommunications and video games, churners represent a loss of revenue as a user leaving indicates that they will no longer pay for the service. In the ...

Language is fundamental to human communication - throughout the course of history language has constantly evolved. This can currently be seen in the changing forms of colloquial language in various on-line social networks (OSN's). These innovations in ...

#Microposts2015, the 5th workshop on 'Making Sense of Microposts', is summarised by the sub-theme: 'big things come in small packages'. The workshop was borne out of research we were each carrying out as microblogging platforms became increasingly ...

The more cloud providers in the market the more information users have to handle to choose the best and suitable option for their application or business. The diversity in cloud services is a challenge for automated decision making in the multi-cloud ...

Matrix Factorisation is a recommendation approach that tries to understand what factors interest a user, based on his past ratings for items (products, movies, songs), and then use this factor information to predict future item ratings. A central ...

Recommender systems profile the preferences of users and then use this information to forecast users' future ratings. One of the most common recommendation approaches is the use of matrix factorisation in which users' past ratings of items (i.e. Movies, ...

Monitoring rates of alcohol consumption across the UK is a timely problem due to ever-increasing drinking levels. This has led to calls from public services (e.g. police and health services) to assess the effect it is having on people and society. ...

Understanding what attracts users to engage with social media content (i.e. reply-to, share, favourite) is important in domains such as market analytics, advertising, and community management. To date, many pieces of work have examined engagement ...

Despite their semantic-rich nature, online communities have, to date, largely been analysed through examining longitudinal changes in social networks, community uptake, or simple term-usage and language adoption. As a result, the evolution of communities ...

In this paper we define the development of a user from entry to churn as his lifecycle that can be divided into discrete stages of development known as lifecycle periods. Prior work has examined how social networking site users have developed along ...

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Topic classification (TC) of short text messages offers an effective and fast way to reveal events happening around the world ranging from those related to Disaster (e.g. Sandy hurricane) to those related to Violence (e.g. Egypt revolution). Previous ...

Online communities provide a useful environment for web users to communicate and interact with other users by sharing their thoughts, ideas and opinions, and for resolving problems and issues. Companies and organisations now host online communities in ...

Existing approaches for link prediction, in the domain of network science, exploit a network's topology to predict future connections by assessing existing edges and connections, and inducing links given the presence of mutual nodes. Despite the rise in ...

Online community managers work towards building and managing communities around a given brand or topic. Arisk imposed on such managers is that their community may die out and its utility diminish to users. Understanding what drives attention to content ...

Today's Web is social and largely driven by a wide variety of online communities. Many such communities are owned and managed by businesses that draw much value from these communities, in the form of efficient and cheaper customer support, generation of ...