The diffusion of Internet technology has prompted the necessity to fundamentally reconsider the relevance of contemporary business models and Web-based systems. This paper is an exploratory study of the Internet business using the ICDT model, Kotler’s product model, and the value chain concept. We distinguish between two categories of Web-based systems; Web-presence systems (WPS) and Web inform...

Building up Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) has been an important and actively followed topic in geo research for years. It’s also regarded in politics and by decision makers as leveraging technology for reducing time and cost in building up geo services for internal usage as well as for public information services. On the European level the new INSPIRE (Acronym for Infrastructure for Spatia...

Disaster prevention and management is a complicated task that often involves a tremendous volume of heterogeneous data from various resources. With its dynamic and distributed nature, service technology appears to be a good candidate for removing the communication barriers between various organizations and for facilitating the integration and sharing of distributed data. For it to succeed, howe...

The paper presents a versatile library of analytic and quasi-analytic complex-valued wavelet packets (WPs) which originate from discrete splines arbitrary orders. real parts the WPs are regular spline-based orthonormal designed in [4]. imaginary so-called complementary WPs, which, unlike symmetric they antisymmetric. Tensor products 1D provide diversity 2D oriented multiple directions. computat...

Water pipe smoking (WPS) is increasing in popularity and prevalence worldwide. Convincing data suggest that the toxicants in WPS are similar to that of cigarette smoke. However, the underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms related to the early pulmonary events of WPS exposure are not understood. Here, we evaluated the early pulmonary events of nose-only exposure to mainstream WPS generated by com...

the internet is already the primary source of tourist destination information for travelers. according to world tourism organization, about 95% of web users use the internet to gather travel related information and about 93% indicate that they visited tourism web sites when planning for vacations. the number of people turning to the internet for vacation and travel planning has increased more t...

Current Web service environment provide connection to individual services but is still deficient in semantic processing technology for the interoperability of Web services. The semantic processing of Web services is a key technology for the dynamic discovery and composition of Web services. Thus, the present study established Web service ontology to support ubiquitous environment and proposed a...

Since, most of the organizations present their services electronically, the number of functionally-equivalent web services is increasing as well as the number of users that employ those web services. Consequently, plenty of information is generated by the users and the web services that lead to the users be in trouble in finding their appropriate web services. Therefore, it is required to provi...