Web Processing Services (WPS) expose processing functionality using Web Service technology. The WPS specification describes the interfaces to publish geospatial processes on the Web. It includes a platform-neutral and several platform-specific versions of its interfaces. Some of the platform-specific interfaces are mandatory and others are optional. In this paper, we present a method to support...

Biomass disks based on fine powder produced from disposed wool fibers were prepared for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The wool powders (WPs) were modified by silver nanoprisms via an assembly method and then pressed into disks using a hydraulic laboratory pellet press. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were used t...

The paper focuses on the real-world usage of IEEE 802.11 wireless network encryption and Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) function. A brief history on the development of encryption methods and WPS is given. Wireless scanning of 802.11 networks in a capital city has been performed, and the results of it have been analysed. To ascertain the knowledge about the security of wireless networks of the aver...

Three resistant starches (RSs), namely fibre of potatoes (FP), wrinkle pea starch (WPS), and high amylose maize starch (HAMS) with different dietary fibre contents, were supplemented in adults to evaluate their effects on urinary nitrogen and ammonia excretion as well as on faecal nitrogen excretion by means of lactose-[(15)N2]ureide ((15)N-LU) degradation. Twenty subjects received a regular di...

Discovery of suitable web services is a crucial task in spatial data infrastructures. We present a novel approach to the semantic discovery of Geoprocessing Services (WPS). Requests and WPS are annotated as conjunctive queries in a logic programming (LP) language and the discovery process is based on LP query containment checking between these descriptions. Besides the types of input and output...

The Open Geospatial Consortium Web Processing Service proposed specification is intended as a solution for developing web-based geoprocessing plugins, and for easily sharing algorithms and geoprocessing functionality. This paper seeks to evaluate the WPS proposal with respect to feasibility and potential utility, and to identify areas for improvement. Challenges with the WPS proposal are discus...

Bringing the full set of GIS (Geographical Information System) functionality into a SOA (Service-oriented Architecture) based environment is one of the substantial changes in the GIS domain. Standardized data access and coordinate transformation and visualization functionality are already available and commonly used in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). Nevertheless, one problem still remains:...

Housing market analysts typically rely on Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The new Web Processing Service (WPS) standard proposed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) offers an alternative that supports desktop GIS analysis functionalities over the Internet via a standardised interface. This article presents how the WPS specification was applied for housing market analyses and demonstra...

In the domain of housing market analyses decision makers typically are supported by Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The new Web Processing Service (WPS) standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) offers nowadays the possibility to realize GIS analysis functionalities also on the Internet via a standardized interface. In this article we present how we applied the WPS specification fo...

We propose an effective method to optimize the working parameters (WPs) of microwave-driven quantum gates implemented with multilevel qubits. We show that by treating transitions between each pair of levels independently, intrinsic gate errors due primarily to population leakage to undesired states can be determined by spectroscopic properties of the qubits and minimized by choosing proper WPs....