The number of business applications operated by enterprises to provide support for the business has increased over the last years. With increasing number of applications and connections between them, also the overall complexity of the application landscape has grown. A main task in managing an application landscape is maintaining quality levels. This article contributes a set of metrics for mea...

This paper presents the ”Environment and landscape geoknowledge” project which aims to exploit heterogeneous data sources recorded at the Chizé environmental observatory since 1994. From a case study, we summarize the difficulties encountered by biologists and ecologists experts when maintaining and analyzing environmental data, essentially the spatial organization of the landscape, crop rotati...

This paper presents the ‘Environment and landscape geo-knowledge’ (GEMINAT) project which aims to build an infrastructure favouring the cross-analysis of spatio-temporal heterogeneous data sources recorded at the Chizé environmental observatory since 1994. From a case study, we summarise the difficulties encountered by biologists and ecologists when maintaining and analysing collected environme...

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this paper presents a new approach for assessing agricultural landscapes based on mixturemethods and the study and definition of aesthetic attributes as lines, forms, texture, spatial composition, scaleand color as they are the closest to human perceptual aesthetic attributes. a set of variables capable ofquantifying those attributes in a simple, objective and systematized way will be proposed....

Associate Professor of Ecology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 32 000. Abstract: East Mediterranean upland ecosystems are severely threatened by exponential landscape degradation and by the loss of biological diversity through monospecies afforestation and brush encroachment. Integrated landscape ecological research, planning, management and education are therefore urgen...

Purpose of Review The goal was to synthesize the literature on wildland fires, how they create resilient landscape mosaics that affect ecosystem function and maintenance of biodiversity, and how the fires themselves are affected by wilderness edge effects and climate change. The emphasis is on coldtemperate and boreal forests. Recent Findings The interactions of fires with landforms create larg...