Recommender systems suggest objects to users navigating a web site. They observe the pages that a user visits and predict which other pages may be of interest. On the basis of these predictions recommenders select a number of pages that are suggested to the user. By far the most popular recommendation strategy is to select the pages of which the recommender believes they are the most interestin...

The composition of individual web services to complex web service chains is a hot topic currently under discussion in the web community. Regarding the geospatial domain, the OpenGIS consortium has published a variety of standards and discussion papers that provide a model to chain geospatial web services. Put into action, it becomes obvious that the proposed model lacks some important features....

split of the moon (shaqq al-qamar) is introduced as one of the prophet’s miracles. this miracle is supported by evidences from the noble verse of the qur’ān ﴾the hour has drawn near and the moon is split.﴿ [q. 54:1], and a collection of the shī‘a and sunnī traditions. this noble verse has been understood in several ways, of which, one concerns the split of the moon in the time of the prophet an...

1 Introduction This final discussion session was based on feedback from Workshop participants, who were each asked to list three main issues that they felt had been important in the Workshop as a whole. Mary, Janet and Paul clustered these issues for purposes of discussion. Jen took notes (thanks Jen!), and Paul has put them together into the following semi-coherent text. The original notes (wi...