Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2008

Workshop on Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics (GEO-AN-MOD 2008).- Detecting Alluvial Fans Using Quantitative Roughness Characterization and Fuzzy Logic Analysis.- High Resolution Analysis of Settlement Structure on Base of Topographic Raster Maps – Method and Implementation.- Working on the Edge of Town: The Periphery as a Spatial Pattern.- Geospatial Modelling of Urban Security: A Novel Approach with Virtual 3D City Models.- Socio-economic Data Analysis with Scan Statistics and Self-organizing Maps.- A Web-Based Autonomous Weather Monitoring System of the Town of Palermo and Its Utilization for Temperature Nowcasting.- Exploratory Spatial Analysis of Illegal Oil Discharges Detected off Canada’s Pacific Coast.- Growths, Urban Transformations, Real Estate Positional Value: Econometric Cellular Automata for the Simulation of the Positional Value: An Application for Turin.- Renewable Energy Sources: The Case of Wind Farms Analysis.- Urban Data Visualization with Voronoi Diagrams.- A Multivariate Fuzzy Analysis for the Regeneration of Urban Poverty Areas.- A Mathematical Tool to Extend 2D Spatial Operations to Higher Dimensions.- Influence of Model Resolution on Ozone Predictions over Madrid Area (Spain).- 3D LIDAR Data Application for Urban Morphogenesis Multi-agent Vector Based Geosimulation.- Map Comparison Methods for Comprehensive Assessment of Geosimulation Models.- A Spatio-morphological Modelling for Spread Predicting.- Hot Spot Analysis: Improving a Local Indicator of Spatial Association for Application in Traffic Safety.- Homogenous Urban Poverty Clusters within the City of Bari.- The Impact of Climate Change on Future Land-Use in a Coastal Zone Planning Context.- Geo-spatial Data Analysis, Quality Assessment and Visualization.- Automated Unsupervised Geomorphometric Classification of Earth Surface for Landslide Susceptibility Assessment.- Urban Roughness Parameters Calculation in the City of Rome by Applying Analytical and Simplified Formulations: Comparison of Results.- Remote Sensing and Urban Analysis.- Integration of Geographic Information into Multidimensional Models.- The Behavioural Rules in Multi Agent Systems: A “Not a Toy” Approach.- New Cycle-Lane Project: A Participative Approach.- Alternative Distance Metrics for Enhanced Reliability of Spatial Regression Analysis of Health Data.- A Software Infrastructure for Multi-agent Geosimulation Applications.- Comparing Exact and Heuristic Methods for Site Location Based on Multiple Attributes: An Afforestation Application.- Temporal Variation of Urban Pattern Morphology in Southern Italy Explored by Using Landsat Data.- Kernel Density Estimation Methods for a Geostatistical Approach in Seismic Risk Analysis: The Case Study of Potenza Hilltop Town (Southern Italy).- 3D Simulations in Environmental Impact Assessment.- Sampling Optimization Trade-Offs for Long-Term Monitoring of Gamma Dose Rates.- Geographical Analysis of Foreign Immigration and Spatial Patterns in Urban Areas: Density Estimation and Spatial Segregation.- Evaluation of Agricultural Land Suitability: Application of Fuzzy Indicators.- Evaluation of Ecological Conditions Using Bioindicators: Application of Fuzzy Modeling.- Workshop on Advances in Web Based Learning (AWBL 2007).- Context Awareness Using Semantic Web Technology in the Ubiquitous Learning Service.- Web-Based Environment for Active Computing Learners.- A Web Based Tool for Novice Programmers: Interaction in Use.- Materializing Learning Objects with SCORM Specifications.- Workshop on Computer Aided Information (CAI) Technology (CAIT 2008).- A New Method for Iris Recognition Systems Based on Fast Pupil Localization.- Elasticity Effect on the Ink Transfer Process in Gravure Printing.- Perturbation Analysis of the Combination Resonances of a Thin Cantilever Beam under Vertical Excitations.- A Study on the Design Supporting System for Cylinder Using Pro/PROGRAM.- The Effects of Hangul Font and Character Size on the Readability in PDA.- Workshop on Computational GeoInformatics (COMPGEO 2008).- Predictive Indexing for Position Data of Moving Objects in the Real World.- Fuzzy Association Rule Mining from Spatio-temporal Data.- A Twofold Fuzzy Region Model for Imprecise Quality Control of Geographic Information.- Evaluating the Viability of Pictometry® Imagery for Creating Models of the Built Environment.- Automatic Decision-Oriented Mapping of Pollution Data.- Advancing Spatio-temporal Analysis of Ecological Data: Examples in R.- How to Define 3D Geoprocessing Operations for the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS)? Towards a Classification of 3D Operations.- Fuzzy Regions for Handling Uncertainty in Remote Sensing Image Segmentation.- Deriving and Mining Spatiotemporal Event Schemas in In-Situ Sensor Data.- Field Sampling from a Segmented Image.- Workshop on Embedded Systems for Ubiquitous Computing (ESUC 2008).- A Message Scheduling Scheme in Hybrid Telematics Networks.- An Embedded Software Testing Tool Supporting Multi-paradigm Views.- Static Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis Tool for Embedded Operating Systems.- SensorMaker: A Wireless Sensor Network Simulator for Scalable and Fine-Grained Instrumentation.- Linked Stack Buffer Management for Shared-Stacks.- A Module Management Scheme for Dynamic Reconfiguration.- Workshop on High-Performance Computing and Information Visualization (HPCIV 2008).- Online Slant Identification Algorithm Using Vector Rules.- An Enzyme-Inspired Approach to Surmount Barriers in Graph Bisection.- High Performance Implementation of Binomial Option Pricing.- Towards a Flexible and Distributed Simulation Platform.- A Workflow System Based on Meta Services in Grid Environments.- Workshop on Mobile Communications (MC 2008).- Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11e EDCA with DCF Improvement Algorithms.- RV-CSMA/CA: Relative Velocity-CSMA/CA Mechanism for Inter-vehicle Network.- Hybrid Medium Access Control Scheme to Enhance the Performance of IEEE 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networks.- An Energy and Distance Aware Data Dissemination Protocol Based on SPIN in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Supporting Address Autoconfiguration for IPv6 in IEEE 802.16e Based Network.- Buffer Tuning Mechanism for Stripped Transport Layer Connections Using PID Controller on Multi-homed Mobile Host.- BCR: Balanced Congestion Control after Spurious RTO.- A Secure Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol for 802.11s Mesh Network.- Workshop on Molecular Simulations Structures and Processes (MOSSAP 2008).- A Tool for the Calculation of Molecular Descriptors in the Development of QSAR Models.- MSSML: A Molecular Spectroscopic Simulations Markup Language for Rovibrational Studies.- Accurate Numerical Computation of Rovibrational G Matrices in Molecules of Arbitrary Size.- Small Water Clusters: The Cases of Rare Gas-Water, Alkali Ion-Water and Water Dimer.- Grid Services for Parallel Molecular Dynamics with NAMD and CHARMM.- Investigation of Propane and Methane Bulk Properties Structure Using Two Different Force Fields.- Grid Computing in Time-Dependent Quantum Reactive Dynamics.- A Comparison of the Isotope Effect for the N + N2 Reaction Calculated on Two Potential Energy Surfaces.- Common Format for Quantum Chemistry Interoperability: Q5Cost Format and Library.- Implementation of the ABC Quantum Mechanical Reactive Scattering Program on the EGEE Grid Platform.- Fast Solution for Large-Scale 2-D Convection-Diffusion, Reacting Flows.- From Microscopic to Macroscopic Modeling of Supersonic Seeded Atomic Beam.- Theoretical Study of the Structural and Electronic Properties of Luteolin and Apigenin Dyes.- Workshop on PULSES – Logical, Technical and Computational Aspects of Transformations and Suddenly Emerging Phenomena (PULSES 2008).- Using Neurofuzzy Models and Spectral Analysis for Prediction of the Exotic Phenomena with Catastrophic Jumps.- Mutiscale Analysis of the Fisher Equation.- Transversal Waves in Nonlinear Signorini Model.- Wavelet Analysis of Pulses in the Fitzhugh Model.- Wavelet Extraction of a Pulse from a Periodic Signal.- The Heaviside Step Function and MATLAB.- Vehicle Priority Selection Algorithm for Evacuation Planning.- General Track.- An Adaptive and Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithm for Meshes.- Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Revisited.- Growths, Urban Transformations, Real Estate Positional Value: Econometric Cellular Automata for the Simulation of the Positional Value: An Application for Turin.