Floods have caused tremendous economic, societal and ecological losses in the Yangtze River Basin (YRB) of China. To reduce the impact of these disasters, it is important to understand the variables affecting the hydrological state of the basin. In this study, we used Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite data, flood potential index (FPI), precipitation data (Tropical Rainfa...

Adequate data management and data provisioning are among the most important topics to cope with the information explosion intrinsically associated with simulation applications. Today, data exchange with and between simulation applications is mainly accomplished in a file-style manner. These files show proprietary formats and have to be transformed according to the specific needs of simulation a...

One may claim that the exponential growth in the amount of data provides great opportunities for data mining. Reality can be different though. In many real world applications, the number of sources over which this information is fragmented grows at an even faster rate, resulting in barriers to widespread application of data mining and missed business opportunities. Let us illustrate this parado...

The technological singularity refers to a hypothetical scenario in which technological advances virtually explode. The most popular scenario is the creation of super-intelligent algorithms that recursively create ever higher intelligences. It took many decades for these ideas to spread from science fiction to popular science magazines and finally to attract the attention of serious philosophers...

A single interface for accessing life sciences (LS) data is a natural need to master the data deluge in this domain. The data in the LS requires integration and current integrative solutions increasingly rely on the federation of queries for distributed resources. This paper demonstrates BioFed, a federated SPARQL query processing system customised for LS-LOD. BioFed enables user to formulate a...

Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Note : les règles d'écriture des références bibliographiques peuvent varier selon les différents domaines du savoir. Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduct...

The field of GIS (S for Systems, Sciences, Services, and Studies) is at a cross-road in the early 2010s. Aiming to link the multiple visions for the next phase of GIS development, this article suggests that the emerging open GIS should serve as a guiding concept. Contextualized in the broader literature of open science, this article proposes open GIS should include eight dimensions related to d...

The aim of this work is to demonstrate the peculiar aspects of hybrid mixtures explosion as regard to vapours or dusts explosions. This work has been focused on pharmaceutical products from excipients (magnesium stearate), vitamins (niacin) to active principles (antibiotics) and their associated solvants (ethanol, diisopropyl ether, toluene. . .). Explosion spheres have been used to determined ...

The European Union regulations require safety and health protection of workers who are potentially at risk from explosive atmosphere areas. According to the requirements, the operators of installations where potentially explosive atmosphere can occur are obliged to produce an explosion protection document. The key objective of this document is the assessment of explosion risks. This paper is co...