The Teaching Spatial Thinking from Interdisciplinary Perspectives (TSTIP) workshop was held at COSIT 2015 in New Mexico, NM. The objective of the workshop was to bring together researchers from a diverse set of fields to address the issue of how to best promote teaching spatial thinking topics from interdisciplinary perspectives. The TSTIP workshop was one project that came out of the TSTIP Ini...

The need for effective communication among the people of the world has never been more pressing than it is at the start of the 21st century in this post-911 world. Recent breakthroughs in the fields of transportation, computing and telecommunications have combined to increase the ease and frequency of communication among members of different cultures. At the same time, developments in world pol...

This paper combines engineering and social science approaches to enhance our understanding of industrial energy efficiency and broaden our perspective on policy making in Europe. Sustainable development demands new strategies, solutions, and policy-making approaches. Numerous studies of energy efficiency potential state that cost-effective energy efficiency technologies in industry are not alwa...

ion: A Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective Lorenza Saitta Università del Piemonte Orientale, DISIT Viale Teresa Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, Italy [email protected] Abstraction is a pervasive activity in human perception, conceptualization and reasoning, and, as such, it enters the vocabulary of almost all disciplines, as well as the everyday life. As a result, it does not exist, a...

Although relevance has represented a key concept in the field of information science for evaluating information retrieval effectiveness, the broader context established by interdisciplinary frameworks could provide greater depth and breadth to on-going research in the field. This work provides an overview of the nature of relevance in the field of information science with a cursory view of how ...

This review paper attempts to position the area of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) in a broader context of interdisciplinary research. We review AIS based on an established conceptual framework that encapsulates mathematical and computational modelling of immunology, abstraction and then development of engineered systems. We argue that Artificial Immune Systems are much more than engineered sys...

Almost everyone has in some situations heard about the word randomness, but few reflect on importance and enlightenments of it world. However, current world, people are facing more randomness all fields, may hold a biased attitude towards randomness. This paper tries to give readers better understanding meaning concept exploring properties basic rules by thinking different academic including bi...