Abstract--Component-based development focuses on compose and composition: abstract components (as wished) must be searched for and matched to existing component (as found). This se...
Data conflation is a major issue in GIS: different geospatial data sets covering overlapping regions, possibly obtained from different sources and using different acquisition ...
Maps are artifacts often derived from multiple sources of data, e.g., sensors, and processed by multiple methods, e.g., gridding and smoothing algorithms. As a result, complex meta...
Nicholas Del Rio, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Ann Q. ...
Construction kits have long been popular as educational artifacts, supporting and encouraging creative explorations of engineering and design; but to date, such kits have had litt...
Our approach to better understand the nature of collaboration in open-source software (OSS) development is to view it as a participative system, where people and artifacts are int...