Thematic issue: groundwater resources management

Logic programming in groundwater resources management

Artificial intelligence techniques can be used to solve problems using a heuristic approach. This paper deals with a model able to verify whether there is groundwater in a given place, the quantity available and its quality. The system has been implemented in the logic programming language Prolog and runs on a personal computer under MS-DOS. The knowledge base has been constructed using degrees...

Thematic Issue: Fungal Biotechnology

Thematic Issue: Protists

Ulva zoospores preferentially settle on N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) producing marine bacterial biofilms. To investigate whether AHL signal molecules also affect the success and rate of zoospore germination in addition to zoospore attraction, the epiphytic bacteria associated with mature Ulva linza were characterized and bacterial isolates representative of this community tested for the abili...

Thematic Issue on Biomaterials

Introduction to the thematic issue

This Thematic Issue focuses on software engineering perspectives on the design, the use and the evaluation of Smart Applications for Ambient Intelligence. It congregates works showing the latest advancements in simulated smart environments as well as successful deployments in the real world, with contributions from revised and extended papers from the ISAmI’11 (International Symposium on Ambien...