Determining the performance of ecosystem services at the city or regional level cannot accurately take into account the fine differences between green or gray structures. The supply of regulating ecosystem services in, for instance, parks can differ as parks vary in their land cover composition. A comprehensive ecosystem service assessment approach also needs to reflect land use to consider the...

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America E generate a range of goods and services important for human well-being, collectively called ecosystem services. Over the past decade, progress has been made in understanding how ecosystems provide services and how service provision translates into economic value (Daily 1997; MA 2005; NRC 2005). Yet, it has proven difficult to move ...

Smart Homes are pervasive systems that interact with the user using a service offer paradigm to provide fully automated daily repetitive tasks. When services are augmented with semantic relationships, one can build adaptive services and systems. In this paper we deal with service failures and propose a recovering method, which we call service reconfiguration, to ensure service availability in s...

In the future multi-cloud ecosystem, many cloud providers and consumers will interact to create, discover, negotiate and use software services. Cloud service brokers will play a central role in bringing providers and consumers together, assisting with software service creation (from abstract models to platform-specific deployments), multi-cloud translation (model-driven adaptation and deploymen...

The successful implementations of the concepts of Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) in smart home in the recent years and the advantages it provide in the smart home development have proved its importance. However, efforts are still needed for service-oriented design of smart home, especially at the architectural level. Although a number of layered architectures are proposed for smart home in th...

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have received much praise and are increasingly perceived as a promising tool to ensure the protection of global ecosystems as well as being able to help alleviate poverty in areas rich in ecosystem services. Given current trends, the scale of payments is likely to grow, creating new circumstances within which ecosystem services will be managed. In this dyna...

The smart spaces paradigm and the M3 concept have already showed their potential for constructing advanced service infrastructures. The Internet of Things (IoT) provides the possibility to make any “thing” a user or component of such a service infrastructure. In this paper, we consider the crucial design challenges that smart spaces meet for deploying in IoT: (1) interoperability, (2) informati...