A Human-Enhanced Framework for Assessing Open Geo-spatial Data
With the advent of collaborative Web 2.0, spatial data creation is no more exclusively in the hands of professionals....
Towards a Domain Specific Modeling Language for Agent-Based Modeling of Land Use/Cover Change
While agent-based models are widely used for the simulation of human-natural systems, it remains challenging for scientists to specify...
Supporting Disaster Management with Real-Time-CPAR Platform
Disaster management requires that various geospatial data producers and users collaborate in an ad hoc manner, despite their different...
From Needs to Services: Delivering Personalized Water Assurance Services in Urban Africa
With rapid urbanization, a changing climate and increasingly strained centralized water systems, individuals and businesses across urban sub-Saharan Africa...
Modeling Claim-Making Process in Democratic Deliberation
Online deliberation is a promising venue for rational-critical discourse in public spheres and has the potential to support participatory...
Creating Quantitative Goal Models: Governmental Experience
Precision in goal models can be enhanced using quantitative rather than qualitative scales. Selecting appropriate values is however often...
Glocal News: An Attempt to Visualize the Discovery of Localized Top Local News, Globally
Glocal News is a web app, a mashup of Google News and Google Maps, which attempts to visualize top...
Identifying Personality-Based Communities in Social Networks
In this paper we present a novel algorithm for forming communities in a graph representing social relations as they...
Towards a Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling Approach of Open Source CMS
Staying tuned to the trends in a certain domain has extremely dynamic and potential applications in many areas. For...
Challenges and Opportunities in the Evolving Data Web
The Data Web refers to the vast and rapidly increasing quantity of scientific, corporate, government and crowd-sourced data published...
