Overview The integration of land administration processes and the collaboration of land agencies are considered essential for the effective delivery of developable land for housing production. However, in most countries, housing and land management policies are usually split between multiple government agencies. The background literature suggests that the activities of governments’ agencies tha...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been designed in accordance with the way people have conceptualized space (Freundschuh & Egenhofer, 1997). While the reality is tridimensional in nature, paradoxically, its representation has been for long decades dominated by the metaphor of the paper map. This has resulted to two separate models: 2D GIS models and Digital Terrain Models (DTM). “The th...

Digesting the data hose that cities are constantly producing is complex; data is usually structured with different criteria, which makes comparative analysis of multiple cities challenging. However, the publicly available data from the Spanish cadaster contains urban information in a documented format with common semantics for the whole territory, which makes these analyses possible. This paper...

Since the Land Administration Bureau was established in 1986, China has carried out the national land-use planning twice, of which the first was focused on "serving for social and economic development", and the second converted to “protecting arable land". At present a new round of land-use planning is ongoing (2005-2020), but the aims and requirements are even more and higher(Zheng Weiyuan,200...

Land valuation is a crucial process that involves the comprehensive assessment of specific land parcels to estimate their worth based on market value or predefined base standards and regulations. Traditionally, this has relied expert involvement, often leading different figure for same by officers. While minor variations are considered acceptable, concerns have been raised regarding lack transp...

The Passage mechanism introduced in this paper provides an easy and intuitive way to transport various types of digital objects by using also normal physical objects without any special identification tags. The current implementation of the Passage mechanism utilizes electronic scales and contact-free identification devices and thus allows for identification of arbitrary physical objects as wel...

Traditional methods of assessing chemical toxicity of various compounds require tests on animals, which raises ethical concerns and is expensive. Current legislation may lead to a further increase of demand for laboratory animals in the next years. As a result, automatically generated predictions using Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship (QSAR) modelling approaches appear as an attract...