The need for efficient monitoring of spatio-temporal dynamics in large environmental applications, such as the water quality monitoring in rivers and lakes, motivates the use of robotic sensors in order to achieve sufficient spatial coverage. Typically, these robots have bounded resources, such as limited battery or limited amounts of time to obtain measurements. Thus, careful coordination of t...

Aiming to provide a unified picture of computed activity - quantitative structure activity relationships, the so called Köln (ESIP-ElementSpecificInfluenceParameter) model for activity and Timisoara (Spectral-SAR) formulation of QSAR were pooled in order to assess the toxicity modeling and inter-toxicity correlation maps for aquatic organisms against paradigmatic organic compounds. The Köln ESI...

1 Research Unit of Industrial Processes Control (UCPI), National Engineering School of Sfax, (ENIS), Route Soukra Km 3.5, BP 1173, 3038 Sfax, Tunisia 2 Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Automatica, Universidad de Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain 3 Laboratory of Automatic and Industrial Informatics (LAII), Higher School of Engineers of Poitiers (ESIP), 40 Avenue du Recteur Pineau, 8602...

Participatory plant breeding (PPB) seeks to involve farmers more closely in crop improvement in order to improve the impact of breeding efforts. While detailed discussions exist around appropriate methodologies for conducting PPB, little attention has been directed towards analysing breeding institutions. Such an analysis is necessary, both to understand the possible reasons for poor breeding i...

While a bevy of standards exist for managers biological data to use, science departments or projects could benefit from an easy digest primer about and the value they confer. Moreover, quick visual breakdown comparing help choose those that best serve their needs. The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is nonprofit enables supports high quality virtual in-person collaborations between cr...

We present a novel approach to computational modeling of social interactions based on modeling of essential social interaction predicates (ESIPs) such as joint attention and entrainment. Based on sound social psychological theory and methodology, we collect a new “Tower Game” dataset consisting of audio-visual capture of dyadic interactions labeled with the ESIPs. We expect this dataset to prov...

In this article, we address the implementation of a distributed data system designed to serve Earth system scientists. Recently, a consortium led by George Mason University has been funded by NASA’s Working Prototype Earth Science Information Partner (WP-ESIP) program to develop, implement, and operate a distributed data and information system. The system will address the research needs of seas...

Geographical Information System (GIS) applications that process large amount of data require intensive usage of hardware capabilities provided by distributed platforms, such as the Grid infrastructure. Due to the constant demand of data availability and data sharing, without concerning its format and size, a new software solution is needed. GreenLand is a system capable to provide such a soluti...