The Svalbard Archipelago has experienced a rapid increase in tourism-related activities over the past few decades. Norwegian Government’s ambition to develop Archipelago’s tourism industry offers multiple socio-economic opportunities. development and scope of these is affected by complex governance system that entails strict environmental regulation preparedness considerations. To understand ba...

Data integration from different data sources may result in data inconsistencies due to different representation of the same objects at the data source. Many researchers have tried to solve this problem manually or using source features. None of them took the user’s preferences to source features into account. This paper proposes using fuzzy logic with multiple constraints, in accordance with us...

In an evolving specification, considerable effort is spent handling recurrent inconsistencies. Detecting and resolving inconsistencies is only part of the problem: a resolved inconsistency might not stay resolved. Frameworks in which inconsistency is tolerated help by allowing resolution to be delayed. However, evolution of a specification may affect both resolved and unresolved inconsistencies...

This paper surveys the literature on illumination based digital image forgery detection techniques. With the development of advanced digital image processing techniques, it has been so easy to manipulate images, and therefore forge new realities. So we need an effective approach to distinguish between real and fake images. In this paper, we introduce some methods of digital image forgery detect...

An AHP model suffering from significant cardinal or/and ordinal inconsistencies in its preference matrix is difficult to rank rationally the alternatives. This study proposes an iterative method to assist a decision maker to detect/adjust inconsistencies and to represent his/her judgments properly. A Gower plot is first used to detect ordinal and cardinal inconsistencies. Two optimization model...