Currently, people involved in protection against disaster situations must
make the decisions about preparing and executing evacuation plans for potential
causes of disaster. Hence, it would be desirable to develop a system capable
of obtaining and analyzing evacuation plans…

What man primarily sees in his continual social interactions are the faces
of other persons. Starting from this vision is how he tries to infer what
is happening in the bodies and minds of those individuals and then conclude

Ontologies are key components in the development of the SemanticWeb, as they
provide a shared understanding of a domain. However, acquiring the knowledge
needed to construct ontologies is a costly task that requires much time and
many resources. This…

The technological evolution has resulted in a series of benefits to the Virtual
Reality area. Now it is possible to represent knowledge in an interactive
way where visual, haptic and audible aspects are combined, allowing for the
improvement of…

Motivation

Several approaches have been developed for mining spatial data (i.e.,
generalization-based methods, clustering, spatial associations, approximation
and aggregation, mining in image and raster databases, spatial classification
and spatial trend detection). However, we argue that these approaches do