— The usual scenario of service oriented systems is characterized by several services offering the same functionalities, by new services that are continuosly deployed and by othe...
A number of approaches for capturing and processing location information of mobile users have been proposed in the past; however, only with the latest advances in the handset tech...
Knowledge-based engineering and computational intelligence are expected to become core technologies in the design and manufacturing for the next generation of space exploration mi...
The increasing reliance on information technology to support business processes has emphasised the need for information security mechanisms. This, however, has resulted in an ever...
Today, there is a huge amount of data gathered about the Earth, not only from new spatial information systems, but also from new and more sophisticated data collection technologie...
Frederico T. Fonseca, Max J. Egenhofer, Peggy Agou...