Even though there is nothing new about the idea, ontologies are a hot topic. Built for many reasons and appliances, the use of ontologies in real-life applications remains limited. The WalkOnWeb project has developed ontologies in the area of recreational routing and applied them in a real application. This demonstration will show these applications and explain how they use ontologies. With the...

Mountain biking is an increasingly popular leisure pursuit. Consequences are trail degradation and conflicts with hikers and other users. Resource managers often attempt to resolve these problems by closing trails to mountain biking. In order to estimate the impact of these developments, a model has been devised that predicts the effects of changes in trail characteristics and introduction of a...

16.1 Introduction Hikers encountering a fallen tree blocking a trail can climb over it, cut a path through it, or walk around it. In general, obstacles can be overcome, reduced, or avoided. Often, reducing the obstacle or avoiding it is a preferable choice. The computational problems in combinatorial auctions are no different. The previous four chapters have been largely devoted to describing w...

We leverage increasing passive RFID tag memory to propose distributed RFID tag storage infrastructures (D-RFID stores). A D-RFID store is a large set of tags with significantly sized re-writeable storage. Interrogators interact with D-RFID stores by reading from and writing to tags, providing a wide range of possible applications that are otherwise resource-inefficient. Examples include tagging...

This paper discusses the information behaviour of hikers on West Highland Way in Scotland by exploring meaningful experiences described fifty participants walking route. Using an ethnographic approach, were interviewed field at sites using semi-structured questions. Qualitative results are discussed and analysed inductive thematic analysis links to literature established. Two types experience f...

A set of various short artificial disturbances from rifle firings, car engine operation, radio, shakings the apparatus, etc. , were generated deliberately near our ELF recording stations in order to identify their footprint on recordings atmospheric electromagnetic radiation Schumann resonance (SR) band (from about 2–50 Hz). Such simulate anthropogenic noises hunters, hikers, campers, etc., whi...