Model integration is becoming increasingly important as our impacts on the environment become more severe and the systems we analyze become more complex. There are numerous attempts to make different models work in concert. However model integration usually treats models as software components only, ignoring the evolving nature of models and their constant modification and re-calibration to bet...

One example of large volumes of distributed data is that of sensor networks, where dedicated sensing equipment is used to monitor events and happenings in a wide range of domains, including monitoring human biometrics. In areas such as Personalised Health, large volumes of data are generated to provide an early indication of potential health problems. Our research is focused on sensor data that...

Integration of data resources is widely used by organizations involved in competitive, high-value-added domains. Various solutions are developed to deal with integration issues even if they lack rational methods to face emerging complexity due to semantic connectedness of data sources, especially in Life Sciences and Health. To get credible and best valuable output , needs and solutions must be...

We define an object-oriented data model called XSDM (XML Schema Data Model) and present a graphical representation of XML Schema integration. The three layers included are, namely, pre-integration, comparison and integration. During pre-integration, the schema present in XML Schema notation is read and is converted into the XSDM notation. During the comparison phase of integration, corresponden...

In this paper a constitutive model formulated in the framework of multi-laminate models is applied to analyze pipe-jacking processes. The multi-laminate -based models consider various integration planes to formulate the stress-strain relationship. This basic feature of the framework has the advantage that yield criteria, flow and hardening rules are formulated on planes rather than in three-dim...

Building model reconstruction has been attracting a great attention from researchers in the geomatics society all over the world. Buildings provide essential information to urban planning, tourism, telecommunication, homeland security, and many others. Much building reconstruction research has been conducted on aerial photographs and LIDAR point data. Some studies are commenced by researchers i...

Environmental research and knowledge discovery both require extensive use of data stored in various sources and created in different ways for diverse purposes. We describe a new metadata approach to elicit semantic information from environmental data and implement semanticsbased techniques to assist users in integrating, navigating, and mining multiple environmental data sources. Our system con...

Current data integration techniques are successful at managing well-defined and wellunderstood data integration tasks, but do not cope well with uncertainty. However, the amount of uncertain data is growing with the number and variety of data sources being integrated, both in traditional data integration tasks s.a. enterprise data integration, and in next generation integration problems, s.a. c...