Purpose Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) is the most commonly used density-based clustering algorithm, while it cannot be directly applied to the railway investment risk assessment. To overcome the shortcomings of calculation method and parameter limits of...

Semantic analysis is the process of extracting meaning of the sentence, from a given language. From the perspective of computer processing, challenge lies in making computer understand the meaning of the given sentence. Understandability depends upon the grammar, syntactic and semantic...

Nowadays, digital images compression requires more and more significant attention of researchers. Even when high data rates are available, image compression is necessary in order to reduce the memory used, as well the transmission cost. An ideal image compression system must yield high-quality...