While Veterinary Services are generally involved in disasters, they have greater presence and leadership in biological disasters. Hazard response plans are widely available at national level but their availability diminishes the closer the level descends to the productive base, which is where many of the protective measures must actually be implemented. Countries highlight issues relating to ea...

I propose criteria for collaborative vision applications where a camera user/operator and a computer work together to analyse a scene. An example of how these may be fulfilled is provided in IMP – an interactive mosaicing program. IMP generates mosaics in real-time, interacting with the user to cue camera movement and relay performance information.

International tourism is an important source of service exports to Spain and its regions, particularly the Balearic Islands. Tourism is the major industry in the Balearic Islands, accounting for about 85% of GDP (see Riera, 2003). This paper examines the time series properties of international tourism demand to the Balearic Islands. The data set comprises monthly figures from two leading touris...

Replication of the most popular objects is often used in distributed data provision systems to reduce access time and improve availability. In fact, a given replica placement scheme may have to be redefined as object popularity changes. Given two replica placement schemes X and X, the Replica Migration Problem (RMP) is to compute a schedule of replica transfers and deletions that lead from X to...