In recent history the use of chromatic segmentation has come very much into vogue for mouth tracking. Our recent work has endeavored to show under what conditions and representations chromatic segmentation works. Results are presented showing for some members of the population chromatic segmentation does not work satisfactorily irrespective of recording conditions. A suitability metric is propo...

In recent years, methods of fuzzy reasoning have been successfully developed for land evaluation. The accuracy of such land evaluation depends on the quality of weighing land characteristics with respect to their effects on crop production. This paper presents a spatially-based model of land suitability analysis. The main purposes were to (1) establish land suitability indices for irrigated whe...

In the broadest sense, the term telework refers to organizational work [email protected] outside of the normal organizational confines of space and time, augmented by computer and communications technology. While most of the interest in telework has been confined to “telecommuting” or working from home, very little research has been done on the other-forms of telework. Beyond telecommuting, this paper ...

Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Glashuettenstrasse 5, 96181 Rauhenebrach, Germany UFZ – Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Dept. of Conservation Biology, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany IBE, Landscape Ecology Group, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, PO Box 2503, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany UFZ – Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Dept. of Community Ec...

The usefulness ofemail has been tempered by its role in the widespread distribution ofspam and malicious content. Security solutions have .focused on filtering out malicious payloads and weblinksfrom email; the potential dangers of email go past these boundaries: harmless-looking emails can carry dangerous, hidden botnet content. In this paper, we evaluate the suitability ofemail communicationf...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are attracting attention from the research community. One of the key issues is to provide them with privacy protection. In recent years, a huge amount of contributions has been focused on this area. Surveys and literature reviews have also been produced to give a systematic view of the different approaches taken. However, no previous work has focused on privacy m...

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Biological invasions and land-use changes are two major causes of the global modifications of biodiversity. Habitat suitability models are the tools of choice to predict potential distributions of invasive species. Although land-use is a key driver of alien species invasions, it is often assumed that land-use is constant in time. Here we combine historical and present day information, to evalua...

There are three main objectives of this monograph: (i) to provide an introduction to geographical information technology along with an historical perspective on the evolving role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in planning, (ii) to overview relevant methods and techniques for GISbased land-use suitability mapping and modeling, and (iii) to identify the trends, challenges and prospects o...