Special Issue: Stormwater/Drainage Systems and Wastewater Management

Special issue on knowledge integration and management in autonomous systems

It is important that software that operates over modern computer infrastructure adopt accordingly, to provide highly customised services to everyone who needs them. New requirements have to be met, for example the systems must still evolve and integrate many heterogeneous systems. Furthermore, the systems must cope with changes in network topology, node failures, collaborations and cooperation ...

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Special Issue on Data Management beyond Database Systems

We describe the power and potential of data journalism, where news stories are reported and published with data and dynamic visualizations. We discuss the challenges facing data journalism today and how recent data management tools such as Google Fusion Tables have helped in the newsroom. We then describe some of the challenges that need to be addressed in order for data journalism to reach its...

Special Issue: Securing Distributed Networks and Systems

With decades of progress toward ubiquitous networks and systems, distributed computing systems have played an increasingly important role in the industry and society. However, not many distributed networks and systems are secure and reliable in the sense of defending against different attacks and tolerating failures automatically, thus guaranteeing properties such as performance, and offering s...

Special issue on Engineering and Management of IDTs for Knowledge Management Systems

An ongoing and main challenge for intelligent decision technologies is the need to support knowledgeintensive tasks that usually are surging in multiple domains of applications such as manufacture [13], finance and insurance [10], and generic knowledge-based service business [12]. Engineering and management systems have relied on knowledge generated from several related areas including Decision...