Abstract Under the umbrella term of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) fall measures from a wide range disciplines. With regard to coastal protection, ecosystems represent possible and promising NbS threats such as storm surges or erosion. Around globe, looming climate change related developments in landscapes well paradigm shift societal views shifted focus decision-makers researchers onto for drivi...

W3C’s Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application and enterprise. As the Semantic Web shapes the future of the Web, it becomes more and more important in software engineering and enterprise application development. While existing ontology engineering tools provide a stack of ontology management support and are used successfully in certain...

In this paper we argue that the gap between Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction should be closed through the integration of usability engineering and requirements engineering. In particular, we present the elements such an integrated process has to cover.

Wave diffraction is a very important phenomenon in marine engineering and several models have been developed for its simulation. The new version of SWAN, a third generation spectral model, includes an approximation to wave diffraction. The approximation is based on the mild-slope equation for refraction and diffraction, omitting phase information. The objective this paper is to evaluate the per...

There is a well-known gap between what is taught in the academia on software development and what the industry needs. Trying to deal with this gap the universities have been using several mechanisms to transfer software development knowledge and skills to future engineers. Although there is no clear recipe to do that, it seems to be a consensus that such transference should be done through prac...

Abstract. Requirements Engineering (RE) is a key activity in the development of software systems and is concerned with the identification of the goals of stakeholders and their elaboration into precise statements of desired services and behavior. The research describes an Agile Requirements Engineering approach for re-engineering & changes in existing Brownfield adaptive system. The approach ha...

Si/Si1-xGex axial heterostructured nanowires (hNW) are under investigation for downscaling of metaloxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). New architectures based on vertically aligned nanowires tunnel-FETs are promising candidates for reduced power dissipation and low voltage operation [1]. The axial growth of lattice mismatched heterostructures would allow band-gap engineering...

Graphene has shown great application potential as the host material for next-generation electronic devices. However, despite its intriguing properties, one of the biggest hurdles for graphene to be useful as an electronic material is the lack of an energy gap in its electronic spectra. This, for example, prevents the use of graphene in making transistors. Although several proposals have been ma...