West Nile virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome and monkeypox are infectious diseases
that have recently been introduced into areas far from their region of origin. The greatest risk …

Visualization is the process of representing data, information, and knowledge in a visual
form to support the tasks of exploration, confirmation, presentation, and understanding. This …

Data warehouses are databases of a specific kind that periodically collect information about
the activities being performed by an organization. This information is then accumulated over …

Two case studies of cultural landscapes in Southern Germany were conducted to develop
appropriate techniques for quantifying and analysing the landscape change since 1850 …

From environmental management to land planning and geo-marketing, the number of
application domains that may greatly benefit from using data enriched with spatio-temporal …

Natural variations in the global climate are governed by complex interactions among the
atmosphere, oceans, and land cover. Modern climate models suggest that these variations …

Moving point object data can be analyzed through the discovery of patterns. We consider the
computational efficiency of detecting four such spatio-temporal patterns, namely flock …

Travel activities are embodied as people's needs to be physically present at certain
locations. The development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs, such as …

В монографии рассматриваются опыт применения геоинформационных систем (ГИС) в
отечественной и зарубежной исторической науке, их место, роль и значение в …

This book evaluates the results of two decades of research in 'history and computing'. In
spite of the fact that a lot has been accomplished, the report indicates critical places for …