The literature paints a fairly common scenario for developing countries. It is one in which land is an increasingly scarce resource; where distribution is perceived to be unequal; where compensation for land required for infrastructure is unfair; where revenue through taxes is low and disproportionately shared; where land transactions are expensive and bureaucratic and where the levels of dispu...

In this paper, we introduce the concepts of “cooperative buildings” and “roomware” and place them in the context of the integrated design of real, physical, resp. architectural spaces and virtual, resp. digital information spaces. By “roomware” we mean computer-augmented things in rooms, like doors, walls, furniture, and others. The general approach is detailed via examples from the i-LAND proj...

This inquiry is practical in nature. Researching children’s behavioral problems and family’s communication as a practitioner would give me worthwhile knowledge that I could use for practice. However, Kerlinger and Lee (1999) stated that the primary purpose of empirical research is theory. Solving an applied problem is not a sufficient or an appropriate reason to conduct empirical research. Empi...

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A graph G is called a pairwise compatibility graph (PCG) if there exists an edge weighted tree T and two non-negative real numbers dmin and dmax such that each leaf lu of T corresponds to a vertex u ∈ V and there is an edge (u, v) ∈ E if and only if dmin ≤ dT (lu, lv) ≤ dmax where dT (lu, lv) is the sum of the weights of the edges on the unique path from lu to lv in T . In this paper we analyze...

Strain is an important parameter for assessing the potential impacts resulting from mine subsidence movements. However, strain resulting from mine subsidence is also one of the most difficult parameters to predict accurately. A number of methods can be used to predict strain, from simple empirical relationships, to more complex statistical approaches. This paper looks at some of these predictio...

A graph G = (V, E) is called a pairwise compatibility graph (PCG) if there exists a tree T , a positive edge-weight function w on T , and two non-negative real numbers dmin and dmax, dmin ≤ dmax, such that V coincides with the set of leaves of T , and there is an edge (u, v) ∈ E if and only if dmin ≤ dT,w(u, v) ≤ dmax where dT,w(u, v) is the sum of the weights of the edges on the unique path fr...

This paper describes a Web-based query system for semantically heterogeneous geospatial data. Our goal is to provide DBMS type query capabilities to a proposed statewide land information system. One of the main problems in querying distributed local data sources is the difference in semantics describing the characteristics (attributes) of spatial objects between various jurisdictions. To addres...