Information and communication technology (ICT) enable information to be accessed processed through all kinds of visual, audio, printed written tools. This study aimed evaluate the ICT development G7 countries by using Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods. Accordingly, Entropy method was used specify criteria weights, Proximity Indexed Value (PIV), Range (ROV), COmplex PRoportional ASse...

The local support basis representation of the ‘weighted v-spline’ i s de r ived in t e rms o f doub le kno t cub ic B-sp l ines , so p rov id ing a conven ien t fo rm fo r comput ing and ana lys ing the represen ta t ion .

This paper discusses the requirements, design and operational aspects of the Unmanned Marine Vehicles (UMVs), namely the Romeo Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and the Charlie Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), developed at CNR-ISSIA, Genova, Italy for robotics research and scientific applications, pointing out the synergies between the development of underwater and surface unmanned vehicles.

The first proven abyssal record of Stenosemus exaratus (G.O. Sars, 1878) is presented on the basis of an ROV study in the Irish Sea. For the first time in situ images of the species and data on the environmental parameters are provided.

The sponge fauna from the deep shelf (70 to 200 m) of the Alboran Island (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean) was investigated using a combination of ROV surveys and collecting devices in the frame of the EC LIFE+ INDEMARES Grant aimed to designate marine areas of the Nature 2000 Network within Spanish territorial waters. From ROV surveys and 351 examined specimens, a total of 87 sponge species...