Using Semantic Web Technologies for Representing E-science Provenance
Life science researchers increasingly rely on the web as a primary source of data, forcing them to apply the same rigor to its use as to an experiment in the laboratory. The my Grid project is developing the use of workflows to explicitly capture web-based procedures, and provenance to describe how and why results were […]
Designing Web Technologies for Local Governance Reform
This paper examines the extent to which innovative applications of web technology might advance local governance reform. Synthesizing theories from communications, public policy, urban political science, and political philosophy, it develops two basic approaches to local governance reform. The entrepreneurial model envisions the city primarily as a local service provider, while the participatory model stresses […]
Color in Image and Video Processing-Most Recent Trends and Future Research Directions
The motivation of this paper is to provide an overview of the most recent trends and of the future research directions in color image and video processing. Rather than covering all aspects of the domain this survey covers issues related to the most active research areas in the last two years. It presents the most […]