Special issue: Developing climate-resilient agri-environmental production systems

Foreword: Special Issue on Information Systems in Developing Countries

The developing countries account for the majority of the world’s population, and are important for this reason alone. In addition, developing countries contain millions of people who lack access to resources such as clean water, adequate housing, and education for satisfying basic human needs. Moreover, many people in developing countries lack the freedom to make choices in their own lives (Sen...

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Special Issue on Indian Ocean Climate*

In the past, great advances in Indian Ocean research have emerged after expeditions by research vessels such as the Discovery in the 1930s or international cooperative observational programs such as the International Indian Ocean Expedition (1960–65) and ship surveys during the World Ocean Circulation Experiment in the mid-1990s. However, Saji et al. (1999) and Webster et al. (1999), in two let...

Special Issue: Developing and using engineering ontologies

Engineering today is overwhelmingly a collaborative activity, often widely geographically distributed, in which different participants bring specialist viewpoints to bear on their engineering tasks. In the process, the participants generate and use large quantities of information, often making use of sophisticated computer tools. Important challenges in this context are the sharing of informati...

Special Issue on Environmental Data Mining

Data Mining is the discipline for non trivial identifying of valid, novel, potentially useful, ultimately understandable patterns in data [3] and provides the opportunity to extract relevant decisional knowledge from data bases in any application field. In particular it can contribute to a better understanding of Environmental Sciences. Environmental Sciences is a wide research field with a num...