In this paper we present work in progress for developing a semantic modeling system for wildlife monitoring, management and conservation. Based on a Greek NGO experience in large carnivores conservation in the mountain ecosystems of northern Greece, we present a generic architecture for wildlife information fusion, sharing and reuse. Our framework employs ontologies for representing the key dom...

The main aim of this study is to investigate the suitability of 1) combining map data derived from the Landsat satellite and other sources with statistical methods for analyzing habitat selection and making probability maps for large areas, and 2) testing a sampling design where volunteers arbitrarily select a walking route within specific areas for conducting transects surveys of wildlife. We ...

A mosaic of intact native and human-modified vegetation use can provide important habitat for top predators such as the puma (Puma concolor), avoiding negative effects on other species and ecological processes due to cascade trophic interactions. This study investigates the effects of restoration scenarios on the puma's habitat suitability in the most developed Brazilian region (São Paulo State...

Vibrio cholerae is a globally distributed water-borne pathogen that causes severe diarrheal disease and mortality, with current outbreaks as part of the seventh pandemic. Further understanding of the role of environmental factors in potential pathogen distribution and corresponding V. cholerae disease transmission over time and space is urgently needed to target surveillance of cholera and othe...

To date, most work regarding the formal analysis ofaccess control schemes has focused on quantifying and comparingthe expressive power of a set of schemes. Although expressivepower is important, it is a property that exists in an absolutesense, detached from the application-specific context within whichan access control scheme will ultimately be deployed. In thispaper, b...

(1 Structure Engineering Lab, Chongqing Jiaotong University, No.66 Xuefu Road Nan’an District Chongqing China ,China,400074) (2 School of Civil Engineering & Archtecture, Chongqing Jiaotong University, No.66 Xuefu Road Nan’an District Chongqing China ,China,400074) Abstract: This paper based on GIS land suitable assessment principle and method, use supermap to analysis suitability of crop land ...

This article compares two fuzzy approaches to land suitability evaluations, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Ideal Point. The methods were evaluated using a case study which models the opportunities for wheat production under irrigation conditions in the north-western region of Jeffara Plain, Libya. A number of relevant soil and landscape criteria were identified through a review of the l...

Land suitability analysis is employed to evaluate the appropriateness of land for a particular purpose whilst integrating both qualitative and quantitative inputs, which can be continuous in nature. However, in agricultural modelling there is often a disregard of this contiguous aspect. Therefore, some parametric procedures for suitability analysis compartmentalise units into defined membership...

We present a view of a context hypothesization process performed using the probabilistic knowledge of a domain. We outline the underlying asumptions and requirements for a focussed construction of interesting hypothetical contexts for probabilistic reasoning. The formalism presented seeks to construct consistent, minimal, and desirable probabilistic contexts by selecting suitable domain attribu...