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Future Internet, Volume 4, Issue 1

March 2012 - 18 articles

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Articles (18)

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,047 Views
19 Pages

17 February 2012

The mobile internet expands the immersive potential of storytelling by introducing electronic games powered by portable, location-aware interfaces. Mobile gaming has become the latest iteration in a decades-long evolution of electronic games that see...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
12,354 Views
32 Pages

Pattern-Based Development and Management of Cloud Applications

  • Christoph Fehling,
  • Frank Leymann,
  • Jochen Rütschlin and
  • David Schumm

15 February 2012

Cloud-based applications require a high degree of automation regarding their IT resource management, for example, to handle scalability or resource failures. This automation is enabled by cloud providers offering management interfaces accessed by app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,561 Views
18 Pages

Web Service Assurance: The Notion and the Issues

  • Marco Anisetti,
  • Claudio A. Ardagna,
  • Ernesto Damiani,
  • Fulvio Frati,
  • Hausi A. Müller and
  • Atousa Pahlevan

14 February 2012

Web service technology provides basic infrastructure for deploying collaborative business processes. Web Service security standards and protocols aim to provide secure communication and conversation between service providers and consumers. Still, for...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
124 Citations
46,003 Views
9 Pages

23 January 2012

The rise of mobile phones and social media may come to be historically coupled with a growing atmosphere of dissent that is enveloping much of the globe. The Arab Spring, UK Riots, Occupy and many other protests and so-called “flash-mobs” are all mas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,974 Views
18 Pages

A Land Use Planning Ontology: LBCS

  • Nuno Montenegro,
  • Jorge C. Gomes,
  • Paulo Urbano and
  • José P. Duarte

6 January 2012

Urban planning has a considerable impact on the economic performance of cities and on the quality of life of their populations. Efficiency at this level has been hampered by the lack of integrated tools to adequately describe urban space in order to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,326 Views
23 Pages

Extension Activity Support System (EASY): A Web-Based Prototype for Facilitating Farm Management

  • Kim Lowell,
  • Lindsay Smith,
  • Ian Miller,
  • Christopher Pettit and
  • Eloise Seymour

4 January 2012

In response to disparate advances in delivering spatial information to support agricultural extension activities, the Extension Activity Support System (EASY) project was established to develop a vision statement and conceptual design for such a syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,957 Views
20 Pages

30 December 2011

It is vital to understand what kind of processes for learning that Geovisual Analytics creates, as certain activities and conditions are produced when employing Geovisual Anlytic tools in education. To understand learning processes created by Geovisu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
233 Citations
47,589 Views
21 Pages

29 December 2011

The OpenStreetMap (OSM) project is a prime example in the field of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Worldwide, several hundred thousand people are currently contributing information to the “free” geodatabase. However, the data contributions...

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