Modern mine planning software plays a crucial role in the operation of many of the world’s mining operations and projects. Mine planning software provides the mining industry with a fast, accurate, cost effective and efficient tool in order to manage their business interests worldwide. Every aspect of the mining industry is today using some form of mine planning software. From exploration to re...

A great deal of research on opinion mining and sentiment analysis has been done in specific contexts such as movie reviews, commercial evaluations, campaign speeches, etc. In this paper, we raise the issue of how appropriate these methods are for documents related to land-use planning. After highlighting limitations of existing proposals and discussing issues related to textual data, we present...

In urban public transport, smart card data is made of millions of observations of users boarding vehicles over the network across several days. The issue addresses whether data mining techniques can be used to study user behaviour from these observations. This must be done with the help of transportation planning knowledge. Hence, this paper presents a common “transportation planning/data minin...

Mine planning is a typical engineering design function which integrate the disciplines of geology, metallurgy, geotechnics, mining and economics. The numerous uncertainties associated with geological understanding, the exposure of people to potential hazards in the work place and the need to provide a specific dollar outcome, requires a proper assessment of the risk. This paper identifies the s...

A virtual mining environment aims to provide dynamic decision support to improve building life-cycle modelling and management. This paper presents the system architecture of a virtual mining environment, its interfaces and a user scenario. This virtual mining environment integrates data mining with agent-based technology, database management systems, object-based CAD systems, and 3D virtual env...