Sharing emergency or disaster information in a timely manner is very important to people's life. With more and more people carrying a smart phone on daily basis, an emergency and disaster information sharing system accessible to smart phone users is necessary and could be very useful. This project is to construct a disaster and emergency information website that allows smart phone users to uplo...

In this paper, an innovative Personalized Location Information System for the Semantic Web (called SPLIS) is presented. The proposed system adopts schema.org ontology and combines it with rule-based policies, to deliver fully contextualized information to the user of a location-based system. Owners of points of interest can add their own rule-based policies to SPLIS to expose and deploy their m...

These days, global pool of data is growing at 2.5 quintillion byte per day and more than 90 percent of this huge pool of data has been produced in the last two years alone [1]. The era of big data has arrived. After [2] explained the file system of Google in this way such that files are split in to various chunks stored in a redundant fashion on a cluster or commodity machines, most of research...

Forensic Investigation into security incidents often includes the examination of huge lists of internet activity gathered from a suspect computer. In today’s age of increased internet usage, the internet activity log on any given system could produce a huge list of websites. This, couples with the fact that a huge percentage of malware is now distributed via the internet, often through compromi...

Various frameworks are being developed to support geospatial data processing and exploration. However, these frameworks are insufficient due to their inability to support rapid development and reuse of existing geospatial operations. To cope with the difficulties that arise, more and more Web-based solutions are being implemented incorporating Web services and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)a ...

With the advent of the Internet, search engines have begun sprouting like mushrooms after a rainfall. Only in recent years, have developers become more innovative, and came up with guided searching facilities online. The goals of these applications are to help ease and guide the searching efforts of a novice web user toward their desired objectives. A number of implementations of such services ...