Technology Solutions: Modeling continent-wide contamination

Applying Agent Technology for Enterprise-Wide Solutions

The challenges set forth by the ever increasing need for effective resource and application integration on an enteprise-wide scale or even across ad hoc collaborating groups of enterprises demand enormous flexibility from today’s software technologies and infrastructures. The integrated approach of multi-agent systems, combining language philosophy and social sciences ideas with distributed sys...

Continent-wide attack launched on African trypanosomiasis.

Continent-wide survey reveals massive decline in African savannah elephants

African elephants (Loxodonta africana) are imperiled by poaching and habitat loss. Despite global attention to the plight of elephants, their population sizes and trends are uncertain or unknown over much of Africa. To conserve this iconic species, conservationists need timely, accurate data on elephant populations. Here, we report the results of the Great Elephant Census (GEC), the first conti...

Exploring Domain Requirements and Technology Solutions: A Goal Modeling Approach

As a requirement engineering technique i* has been used to model requirements for a single system. In this paper, we consider whether i* can be used to explore and map user needs and requirements for an entire application domain rather than for a single system. A domain-wide requirements model can be used to assess the suitability of various technology architectures and solutions for that domai...

Magnetotelluric Studies of Active Continent–Continent Collisions

Continent–continent collisions are an important tectonic process and have played a fundamental role in the evolution of the modern continents. A combination of geological and geophysical data has provided new constraints on the structure and temporal evolution of these orogens. Magnetotelluric (MT) studies have been an important part of these studies since they can constrain the fluid content a...