A geo-ontology can be built around a Geographic Information System (GIS) and enriched with a firstorder logic language under the closed-world assumption (CWA). This extended system provides knowledge representation formalisms that are aimed to describe general conceptual information. They can also be used in the construction of the knowledge base of a reasoning tool. In this paper an environmen...

In this paper we propose an efficient offline job scheduling algorithm working in a grid environment that is based on a relatively new evolutionary metaheuristic called generalized extremal optimization (GEO). We compare our experimental results with those obtained using a very popular evolutionary metaheuristic, the genetic algorithm (GA). The scheduling algorithm implies two-stage scheduling....

In the hydro/solvothermally synthesized title compound, Na(4)[Cu(2)(H(2)Ge(2)O(7))(H(2)GeO(4))(2)]·H(2)O, the framework building units include CuO(4), GeO(2)(OH)(2) and GeO(3)(OH) tetra-hedra, the latter being condensed into H(2)Ge(2)O(7) (4-) dimers. All the tetra-hedra are connected by corner-sharing into four-membered-ring (4MR) secondary building units containing two CuO(4), one GeO(2)(OH)(...

Perspectives within social interaction situations are often shaped by geo-historical contexts derived from knowledge of indirectly experienceable phenomena such as geographic scale entities and past events that are communicated through external representations such as maps and historical accounts. Although geo-historical context is important for proving meaning to collaborative situations, no f...

Natural language place descriptions in everyday communication provide a rich source of spatial knowledge about places. An important step to utilize such knowledge in information systems is geo-referencing all the places referred to in these descriptions. Current techniques for geo-referencing places from text documents are using place name recognition and disambiguation; however, place descript...

After the setup of spatial data infrastructure (SDI) and national information infrastructure (NII) in many countries geo-services become one of the most important and attractive tasks. With the integration of GPS, GIS and Remote Sensing (RS) we can principally answer any geo-spatial related question: when and where what object has which changes? An intelligent Geo-service agent would provide th...

Intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) imaging can characterize diffusion and perfusion of normal and diseased tissues, and IVIM parameters are authentically determined by using cumbersome least-squares method. We evaluated a simple technique for the determination of IVIM parameters using geometric analysis of the multiexponential signal decay curve as an alternative to the least-squares method fo...

As the number of space debris on earth’s orbit increases steadily, the need to survey, track and catalogue them becomes of key importance. In this context, CNES has been using the TAROT Telescopes (Rapid Telescopes for Transient Objects owned and operated by CNRS) for several years to conduct studies about space surveillance and tracking. Today, two testbeds of services using the TAROT telescop...

of this setup is analysed as a function of the flux. We find that, for the highest flux considered (10×1018 ion decays per year per baseline), the sensitivity to θ13 reaches sin2 2θ13 ≥ 1×10−4; the sign of the atmospheric mass difference can be identified, regardless of the true hierarchy, for sin2 2θ13 ≥ 3× 10−4; and, CP violation can be discovered in 70% of the δ -parameter space for sin2 2θ1...

Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effective approach to the solution of many problems facing highway administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly ...