Distributed virtual experiments in water quality management

Computational Complexity and Distributed Execution in Water Quality Management

Modeling is considered an inherent part of design, operation and optimization of Water Quality Systems. Models are used for running so-called Virtual Experiments, such as Simulation and Uncertainty Analysis. Since the complexity of VE’s is constantly increasing, there is a need for techniques that allow for timely execution of complex VE’s on real-world models. This paper touches several of the...

Distributed Sensing Systems for Water Quality Assessment and Management

Virtual Reality Visualization of Distributed Tele-Experiments

The increased costs of laboratory environments such as mobile robots and the specialization of research groups increase the demand for collaboration between different research groups. Although the Internet can be regarded as the most important medium for cooperation over large distances, it does not provide the necessary bandwidth for the transmission of video-streams required for example durin...

From Experience to Experiments in Water Management

Thirteen years after the beginning of the democratization process in South Africa, many radical socio-political and institutional transformations have taken place in the country. Unlike during the Apartheid era, natural resource management and governance, particularly in the water sector, is nowadays based on concepts and criteria such as decentralization, economic efficiency, environmental sus...

Supporting Distributed Configuration Management in Virtual Enterprises

This paper presents a semantic hypertext-based framework called DHT that supports distributed software connguration management , provides transparent access to heterogeneous, autonomous software repositories, and enables an implementation strategy with low cost and eeort. We show how DHT solves the practical problems of sharing and updating heterogenous multi-version software in a virtual enter...