To track a cyclone using a single orbiting satellite in a continuous manner is impractical as it has limited spatial and temporal coverage. One solution is to use multiple orbiting satellites for cyclone tracking. However, data from some orbiting satellites do not provide features as useful as other satellites in identifying cyclones. Moreover, satellite data containing strong cyclone discrimin...

Semantic web is a useful framework for accessing heterogeneous data sources, and its supporting technologies have already been utilized for data integration in life science domain. In this context, the primary challenge is to tackle the problem of evolving concepts, which is a similar challenge encountered by cognitive scientists using rule-based formalisms. In our data integration effort, we a...

Abstract: We describe a component-based infrastructure for Web-based applications that reduces the need for We describe a component-based infrastructure for Web-based applications that reduces the need for custom integration. We assume that to construct an application, users will give a specification of three kinds of components: data source, business analysis, and visualization unit. From this...

Distributed Data Mining is the process of extracting hidden knowledge from distributed data sources. A number of DDM architectures are proposed during the last few years. Recently, Optimized Incremental Knowledge Integration Distributed Data Mining model is proposed. It is a mobile-agent based model that overcomes the drawbacks of the traditional models. In this paper, the classification mining...

There is an increasing need to forecast power generated by photovoltaic sources in day-ahead power system operation. The electrical energy generated by these renewable sources is an uncertain variable and depends on solar irradiance, which is out of control and depends on climate conditions. The stochastic programming based on various scenarios is an efficient way to deal with such uncertaintie...

We present a specification of the optimization of KLM’s flight schedule in this paper using object-oriented simulation services on top of the Java-based distributed simulation environment DSOL. The paper shows the added value of a service-based architecture for linking the simulation of KLM’s operations, the operational modules for day-to-day flight optimization, the interfaces to input data, a...