Tropical ecosystems have vast array of ecosystem services but are largely un-quantified. This study explored the capacity rainforest to deliver and inherent influences that determine such. Forest plots measuring 50m × were set up in 14 locations used for tree enumeration. Soil samples collected at four edges middle each plot 0-30cm depth, bulked analyzed. Aboveground, belowground soil carbon, b...

The recent increased use of Internet, social media, and networked business mark a development trend where software-based services flow to the open market for enabling service-oriented networked business. Our vision is that in future, organizations and individuals collaborate within open service ecosystems. An open service ecosystem is characterized especially by the autonomy of its entities, it...

We take a social-ecological systems perspective to investigate the linkages between ecosystem services and human well-being in South Africa. A recent paper identified different types of social-ecological systems in the country, based on distinct bundles of ecosystem service use. These system types were found to represent increasingly weak direct feedbacks between nature and people, from rural "...

The introduction of so-called smart meters involves detailed consumption data. While this data plays a key role in integrating volatile renewable energy sources, a side effect is that it can reveal sensitive personal information. Concerns and protests led to a stopped smart meter rollout yet. In deregulated electricity markets, data-privacy is even more at risk: The UK, Texas and Ontario decide...

With the brilliant advance of ubiquitous technologies, it is possible to provide more smart and pervasive healthcare services in a smart home environment. Despite of these remarkable advances of technologies, there are few smart home-based personalized healthcare services which fully consider not only user’s current situation but also user’s social relationship. In this paper, we try to model c...

In December 2000 the Object Management Group (OMG) called for a proposal of a smart transducer interface. In response a new standard has been proposed that comprises a time-triggered transport service within the distributed smart transducer subsystem and a well-defined interface to a CORBA environment. This smart transducer standard has been adopted by the OMG in January 2002. The smart transdu...

Private forests provide a range of ecosystem services for society including provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting services. Sustaining the supply of such services depends on the interest of nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners in managing their forests for such services. Assessing factors that influence NIPF landowner intentions would be useful in identifying potential su...

Pingbian Miao Autonomous County is one of the poorest rural areas in China. Land-use changes, mainly driven by agricultural expansion and deforestation, may significantly impact ecosystem services and functions, but such effects are difficult to quantify. In the present study, Landsat image data were combined with the published coefficients about the world and China ecosystem to quantify land-u...

The paper summarizes research findings related to SmartResource project (2004-2007) funded by Tekes and industrial companies. The main objectives was research and development of the large-scale distributed environment for integration of smart devices, web services and humans based on combination of Semantic Web, agent technologies and service-oriented architecture. A prototype platform for self...