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Oceanographic applications increasingly rely on the integration of multivariate data from diverse observational platforms, the coupling of remote sensing and field data being integral to analysis workflows. However, the inherent heterogeneity of in situ datasets and their variable adherence to meta/data standards poses a significant impediment to interoperability and long-term data stewardship. Here...
Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is a not-for-profit society that operates and manages innovative cabled observatories which supply continuous power and Internet connectivity to scientific instruments located in coastal, deep-ocean, and Arctic environments. The data from the instruments are archived, quality-controlled, and made freely available to researchers, educators, and the public. The Oceans 2.0...
Ocean processes are of biological, geological, chemical or physical nature, occurring at micro — to kilometer scales, from less than seconds to centuries, turning the understanding and the sustainable management of the ocean into a multi-scale and multi-disciplinary effort. To address this variability with a cost-effective solution, the European FP7 project NeXOS has developed a new generation of...
The flood of alarms produced by Point-of-Care (PoC) medical devices in intensive care units (ICUs) and operating rooms (ORs) is a crucial issue of today's hospitals. Alarm fatigue and desensitization leads to the death of patients, noise worsens the patient's recovery process and causes burnout syndromes of caregivers, etc. Much research has been done in the last years to reduce false alarms and noise...
The economic growth of a nation depends upon the workforce of both the formal and informal sector of the economy. The recruitment system used in the formal sector cannot be used in the informal sector as the latter does not have professional expertise or education that is required in job offers. Semantic Web technologies in the domain of online recruitment has substantially increased market transparency...
In response to the rise of Big Data, modern enterprise architecture has become significantly more complex. Model driven engineering (MDE) has been proposed as a methodology for developing software to deal with complex integration and interoperability. Domain specific languages (DSLs) play a crucial role in MDE and represent languages for a specific purpose that are highly abstract and easy to use...
The emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) promises to solve a wide range of issues that are related to the management of existing resources and delivery of new human-centric services in urban environments. IoT is being harnessed to benefit a wide range of Smart City applications including (but not limited to) holistic urban planning, tracking of city wide services, enhancing public transportation,...
The trend towards the digitalization of our homes is motivated by the development of hardware and software platforms that have been researched in recent years. As in the Internet of Things, building a single, global platform that enables communication with a myriad of devices for home automation is virtually impossible. The platform proposed in this work deals, in isolation, with the problems in each...
Lack of healthcare infrastructure has caused millions of deaths in developing countries. People in such countries generally suffer from infectious diseases and are denied treatment at appropriate time or not warned about emerging epidemics. This mainly happens because of poor establishment of public health services, lack of access to health statistics and nonexistence of precise medical data. The...
With the development of the smart building, the consumer participation becomes more and more frequent in the electric power market transaction, which may cause the problem that information transmission from the smart building to the utility cannot be carried out smoothly due to the disharmony of different communication standards. As a possible solution to solve this problem, the information exchange...
Based on a literature analysis, this paper examines the nature of evolution in Systems of Systems (SoS) by attempting to answer why, where and how change occurs in this new kind of complex systems as well as what unprecedented underlying challenges makes it difficult to manage. This paper gives special focus on how state-of-the-art research efforts are attempting to solve those challenges and ultimately...
To mitigate potential misinterpretation and security violations, software developers should use tools that reflect the state of web applications and visualise them as graphical models. Modelling helps to ensure that functionality and access control mechanisms are consistently interconnected. In this paper, we propose an approach to support Web application development using the Spring platform. Our...
The increasing occurrence of large scale disasters calls out for a collaborative approach to crisis management, where multiple and heterogeneous organizations of first responders are deployed within the damaged area and must interact with each others in order to cooperate in the damage assessment and recovery actions. Such an approach requires a suitable communication platform to allow these organizations...
As the Linked Data paradigm is embraced by a growing number of data providers (and consumers), the count of publicly available, semantically-annotated resources is systematically increasing. Here, elasticity and extensibility of semantics, enmeshed in Linked Data principles, and technologies supporting them, starts to attract application developers. In this context, multitude of developed ontologies...
The methodological aspects of building standardized profiles describing the development of a security system that is an integral part of a distributed information system are considered. Functional standardization instruments and the theory of open systems are used.
In addition to in-house applications, networked enterprises are increasingly using data and services from various external sources. Conversion of data to useful information and IT alignment with business goals are big challenges faced by these enterprises. Integration platforms (IPs) aid enterprises in solving such challenges. However, the large number of commercial and academic IPs currently available...
Ontologies play a key role in semanticinteroperability projects, capturing the conceptualizationunderlying the various systems to be integrated. In the case oflarge information systems landscapes, a single monolithicontology often becomes hard to design and maintain. In thissetting, it is common to divide the ontological model inconsistently interlinked modular ontologies, forming anontology network...
The standard and real-time communication technology is an unalloyed inevitability for the development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, the selection of a standard and effective messaging protocol is a challenging and daunting task for any organisation because it depends on the nature of the IoT system and its messaging requirements. Copious messaging protocols have been developed...
Engineering of medical informatics systems is a complex work because it is at the intersection of several critical domains, among which medicine, computer science, electrical engineering to mention just a few. One critical aspect of such systems is the interoperability of the different components. One key solution for the interoperability is the creation of good standards that will assure the interchange...
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