Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2008: International Conference, Perugia, Italy, June 30 – July 3, 2008, Proceedings, Part I

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages -
Detecting Alluvial Fans Using Quantitative Roughness Characterization and Fuzzy Logic Analysis....Pages 1-15
High Resolution Analysis of Settlement Structure on Base of Topographic Raster Maps – Method and Implementation....Pages 16-25
Working on the Edge of Town: The Periphery as a Spatial Pattern....Pages 26-41
Geospatial Modelling of Urban Security: A Novel Approach with Virtual 3D City Models....Pages 42-51
Socio-economic Data Analysis with Scan Statistics and Self-organizing Maps....Pages 52-64
A Web-Based Autonomous Weather Monitoring System of the Town of Palermo and Its Utilization for Temperature Nowcasting....Pages 65-80
Exploratory Spatial Analysis of Illegal Oil Discharges Detected off Canada’s Pacific Coast....Pages 81-95
Growths, Urban Transformations, Real Estate Positional Value: Econometric Cellular Automata for the Simulation of the Positional Value: An Application for Turin....Pages 96-110
Renewable Energy Sources: The Case of Wind Farms Analysis....Pages 111-125
Urban Data Visualization with Voronoi Diagrams....Pages 126-136
A Multivariate Fuzzy Analysis for the Regeneration of Urban Poverty Areas....Pages 137-152
A Mathematical Tool to Extend 2D Spatial Operations to Higher Dimensions....Pages 153-164
Influence of Model Resolution on Ozone Predictions over Madrid Area (Spain)....Pages 165-178
3D LIDAR Data Application for Urban Morphogenesis Multi-agent Vector Based Geosimulation....Pages 179-193
Map Comparison Methods for Comprehensive Assessment of Geosimulation Models....Pages 194-209
A Spatio-morphological Modelling for Spread Predicting....Pages 210-220
Hot Spot Analysis: Improving a Local Indicator of Spatial Association for Application in Traffic Safety....Pages 221-231
Homogenous Urban Poverty Clusters within the City of Bari....Pages 232-244
The Impact of Climate Change on Future Land-Use in a Coastal Zone Planning Context....Pages 245-257
Geo-spatial Data Analysis, Quality Assessment and Visualization....Pages 258-267
Automated Unsupervised Geomorphometric Classification of Earth Surface for Landslide Susceptibility Assessment....Pages 268-283
Urban Roughness Parameters Calculation in the City of Rome by Applying Analytical and Simplified Formulations: Comparison of Results....Pages 284-299
Remote Sensing and Urban Analysis....Pages 300-315
Integration of Geographic Information into Multidimensional Models....Pages 316-329
The Behavioural Rules in Multi Agent Systems: A “Not a Toy” Approach....Pages 330-345
New Cycle-Lane Project: A Participative Approach....Pages 346-360
Alternative Distance Metrics for Enhanced Reliability of Spatial Regression Analysis of Health Data....Pages 361-374
A Software Infrastructure for Multi-agent Geosimulation Applications....Pages 375-388
Comparing Exact and Heuristic Methods for Site Location Based on Multiple Attributes: An Afforestation Application....Pages 389-404
Temporal Variation of Urban Pattern Morphology in Southern Italy Explored by Using Landsat Data....Pages 405-414
Kernel Density Estimation Methods for a Geostatistical Approach in Seismic Risk Analysis: The Case Study of Potenza Hilltop Town (Southern Italy)....Pages 415-429
3D Simulations in Environmental Impact Assessment....Pages 430-443
Sampling Optimization Trade-Offs for Long-Term Monitoring of Gamma Dose Rates....Pages 444-458
Geographical Analysis of Foreign Immigration and Spatial Patterns in Urban Areas: Density Estimation and Spatial Segregation....Pages 459-474
Evaluation of Agricultural Land Suitability: Application of Fuzzy Indicators....Pages 475-490
Evaluation of Ecological Conditions Using Bioindicators: Application of Fuzzy Modeling....Pages 491-500
Context Awareness Using Semantic Web Technology in the Ubiquitous Learning Service....Pages 501-515
Web-Based Environment for Active Computing Learners....Pages 516-529
A Web Based Tool for Novice Programmers: Interaction in Use....Pages 530-540
Materializing Learning Objects with SCORM Specifications....Pages 541-554
A New Method for Iris Recognition Systems Based on Fast Pupil Localization....Pages 555-564
Elasticity Effect on the Ink Transfer Process in Gravure Printing....Pages 565-575
Perturbation Analysis of the Combination Resonances of a Thin Cantilever Beam under Vertical Excitations....Pages 576-586
A Study on the Design Supporting System for Cylinder Using Pro/PROGRAM....Pages 587-600
The Effects of Hangul Font and Character Size on the Readability in PDA....Pages 601-614
Predictive Indexing for Position Data of Moving Objects in the Real World....Pages 615-630
Fuzzy Association Rule Mining from Spatio-temporal Data....Pages 631-646
A Twofold Fuzzy Region Model for Imprecise Quality Control of Geographic Information....Pages 647-662
Evaluating the Viability of Pictometry® Imagery for Creating Models of the Built Environment....Pages 663-677
Automatic Decision-Oriented Mapping of Pollution Data....Pages 678-691
How to Define 3D Geoprocessing Operations for the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS)? Towards a Classification of 3D Operations....Pages 692-707
Fuzzy Regions for Handling Uncertainty in Remote Sensing Image Segmentation....Pages 708-723
Deriving and Mining Spatiotemporal Event Schemas in In-Situ Sensor Data....Pages 724-739
Field Sampling from a Segmented Image....Pages 740-755
A Message Scheduling Scheme in Hybrid Telematics Networks....Pages 756-768
An Embedded Software Testing Tool Supporting Multi-paradigm Views....Pages 769-779
Static Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis Tool for Embedded Operating Systems....Pages 780-789
SensorMaker: A Wireless Sensor Network Simulator for Scalable and Fine-Grained Instrumentation....Pages 790-799
Linked Stack Buffer Management for Shared-Stacks....Pages 800-810
A Module Management Scheme for Dynamic Reconfiguration....Pages 811-819
Online Slant Identification Algorithm Using Vector Rules....Pages 820-828
An Enzyme-Inspired Approach to Surmount Barriers in Graph Bisection....Pages 829-840
High Performance Implementation of Binomial Option Pricing....Pages 841-851
Towards a Flexible and Distributed Simulation Platform....Pages 852-866
A Workflow System Based on Meta Services in Grid Environments....Pages 867-882
Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11e EDCA with DCF Improvement Algorithms....Pages 883-895
RV-CSMA/CA: Relative Velocity-CSMA/CA Mechanism for Inter-vehicle Network....Pages 896-905
Hybrid Medium Access Control Scheme to Enhance the Performance of IEEE 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networks....Pages 906-916
An Energy and Distance Aware Data Dissemination Protocol Based on SPIN in Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 917-927
Supporting Address Autoconfiguration for IPv6 in IEEE 802.16e Based Network....Pages 928-937
Buffer Tuning Mechanism for Stripped Transport Layer Connections Using PID Controller on Multi-homed Mobile Host....Pages 938-947
BCR: Balanced Congestion Control after Spurious RTO....Pages 948-959
A Secure Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol for 802.11s Mesh Network....Pages 960-971
A Tool for the Calculation of Molecular Descriptors in the Development of QSAR Models....Pages 972-985
MSSML: A Molecular Spectroscopic Simulations Markup Language for Rovibrational Studies....Pages 986-996
Accurate Numerical Computation of Rovibrational G Matrices in Molecules of Arbitrary Size....Pages 997-1010
Small Water Clusters: The Cases of Rare Gas-Water, Alkali Ion-Water and Water Dimer....Pages 1011-1025
Grid Services for Parallel Molecular Dynamics with NAMD and CHARMM....Pages 1026-1035
Investigation of Propane and Methane Bulk Properties Structure Using Two Different Force Fields....Pages 1036-1051
Grid Computing in Time-Dependent Quantum Reactive Dynamics....Pages 1052-1064
A Comparison of the Isotope Effect for the N + N2 Reaction Calculated on Two Potential Energy Surfaces....Pages 1065-1080
Common Format for Quantum Chemistry Interoperability: Q5Cost Format and Library....Pages 1081-1093
Implementation of the ABC Quantum Mechanical Reactive Scattering Program on the EGEE Grid Platform....Pages 1094-1107
Fast Solution for Large-Scale 2-D Convection-Diffusion, Reacting Flows....Pages 1108-1120
From Microscopic to Macroscopic Modeling of Supersonic Seeded Atomic Beam....Pages 1121-1130
Theoretical Study of the Structural and Electronic Properties of Luteolin and Apigenin Dyes....Pages 1131-1140
Using Neurofuzzy Models and Spectral Analysis for Prediction of the Exotic Phenomena with Catastrophic Jumps....Pages 1141-1155
Mutiscale Analysis of the Fisher Equation....Pages 1156-1170
Transversal Waves in Nonlinear Signorini Model ....Pages 1171-1180
Wavelet Analysis of Pulses in the Fitzhugh Model....Pages 1181-1190
Wavelet Extraction of a Pulse from a Periodic Signal....Pages 1191-1201
The Heaviside Step Function and MATLAB....Pages 1202-1211
Vehicle Priority Selection Algorithm for Evacuation Planning....Pages 1212-1221
An Adaptive and Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithm for Meshes....Pages 1222-1234
Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Revisited....Pages 1235-1248
Growths, Urban Transformations, Real Estate Positional Value: Econometric Cellular Automata for the Simulation of the Positional Value: An Application for Turin ....Pages 1249-1259
Back Matter....Pages E1-E1
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