IFUP: Workshop on Multi-dimensional Information Fusion for User Modeling and Personalization

Recommendation system has became an important component in many real applications, ranging from e-commerce, music app to video-sharing site and on-line book store. The key of a successful recommendation system lies in the accurate user/item profiling. With the advent of web 2.0, quite a lot of multimodal information has been accumulated,...

Estuarine morphodynamic adaptation to sediment supply and human activities: A case study of turbidity maximum

Estuarine morphodynamics undergo significant changes due to declined sediment supply from river, rising sea-level, and human interferences (Syvitski and Saito, 2007; Syvitski et al., 2009). The Yangtze Estuary is such a case whose decadal morphodynamic evolution was broadly examined. It was documented that the subaqueous delta shifted from...

How important is mud transport on large scale estuarine and deltaic morphodynamics?

Sediment transport provides a critical bridge between hydrodynamics and morphodynamics. Sediment transport behaviour has obvious impacts on morphodynamic development. Long-term morphodynamic modelling enables examination of large scale morphological patterns, such as channel-shoal patterns in estuaries and deltaic channel structures. Non...

Resilience of Dwellings and the Creation of Livable Historical Residential Areas in China

There are numerous traditional residential buildings in China, but only in the last sixty years have academics studied historic dwellings. Currently,<br/>there are four metropolises, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen in mainland China, and with a number of unique traditional residential areas,<br/>such as Hutong, Linong, and Qilou. In 1928,...

Tunable polaritons from plasmon-phonon coupling in hyperbolic media