The Internet has been the major marketing channel for almost all Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO). However, with the rapid development and constant evolution of emerging Internet technologies, it is crucial for DMO to keep up with developments in new technology and make the best use of them for sustained business success and competitive advantages. This requires DMOs to continue innova...

The aim of this paper is to provide a consistent development path enabling the re-usability of in house legacy systems or architectures towards their re-design, in order to ensure compliance withevolving standards, byusing the new features of SysML for modelling variants. Modern standards evolve quickly,include advanced functionalities and operations and support diverse implementations. System ...

Modeling activities such as calibration, verification and validation are often executed in under-specified environments. This hinders reproducibility, reduces re-usability and generally decreases the modeling precision and quality. This paper describes a framework for the definition of model frames. Model frames capture the context an activity/model is executed in and facilitate re-use, replace...

Several methodologies and techniques are currently available so as to dissipate energy in engineering systems; most of them are either not re-usable, or complex in mechanism. This paper introduces an innovative re-usable energy absorption device, based upon the working principles of Equal Channel Angular Extrusion, and known as UREAD (Universal Re-usable Energy Absorption Device). This study co...

Ready access to public sector information offers unprecedented opportunities for the development of new products and applications and to make existing processes more efficient and effective. These developments have perhaps the greatest opportunities in the field of geographic information. Although the Directive on the re-use of public sector information (PSI Directive) was specifically drafted ...

Technology enhanced learning can look back on a comparably long tradition. Surprisingly, the software systems in this field are seldom constructed based on state-of-the art insights in software engineering. Using basic software engineering techniques involves system descriptions on a formal and abstract level, to use patterns for software development, and to implement the system in a re-usable ...