Objective: Identify, analyze and offer a conceptual and historical clarification about metric studies of information’ subfields considering their objects and purposes of interest, as well as discuss their interrelationships ...

It is very important to understand the metrics that are applied within IT processes in today's industry, why they are important, and in what types of companies they are used. This article presents the results of a systematic ...

Extracting elements of interest from video frames is a necessary task in many applications, such as those that require replacing the original background. Quality assessment of foreground extraction algorithms is essential ...

Metric indices support efficient similarity searches in metric spaces. This problem is central to many applications, including multimedia databases and repositories handling complex objects. Most metric indices are designed ...

This research aims to identify and analyze the prominent Brazilian and international researchers in Information Metric Studies in Brazil, the proximity established among them from the Brazilian researchers' perspectives, ...

This paper presents the adaptation of a specific metric for the RPL protocol in the objective function MRHOF. Among the functions standardized by IETF, we find OF0, which is based on the minimum hop count, as well as ...

Understanding the relationship between landscape pattern and environmental processes requires quantification of landscape pattern at multiple scales. This will make it possible to relate broad-scale patterns to fine-scale ...

Besides landscape ecological studies, the traditional approach to trying to understand ecological processes that occur in a landscape is the use of spatial statistics. However, this does not take into account that many of ...