There have been many formulations and definitions for an ecosystem (Miedziejko and Kędziora, 2014). It is commonly believed that an ecosystem includes biotic and abiotic components in terms of their contribution to providing the basic conditions for its survival and reproduction. Moreover, most ...
There exist many definitions of integrated ecosystem management (Christensen et al., 1996; EC, 1999; Grumbine, 1997; Nordic Council, 1998; Yaffee, 1999) from which several shared elements can be distilled: • integrated application of all ecosystem aspects (chemical, biological, physical, and ...
This huge knowledge asset has generated a fragmented picture and a lack of consensus about IoT systems, their basic constituents, their qualities, and in some cases even inconsistent terminologies and definitions. A long list of surveys (i.e., articles that in [3] are called secondary studies)...
Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS) enables a paradigm shift in the current manufacturing landscape, from integrated production and inflexible, fragile supply chains to open production and flexible, robust supply chains. As part of this evolution, new scal
It included words like Stroke, Fill, Preflight, Leading, Baseline, and more with their definitions as used by the industry. Does that have an effect on reading level? I don't have any idea. But it does help with comprehension if students understand the industry jar...
with a focus on a long-standing and still open issue, which is fundamental to the very notion, namely, whether it is really possible to attribute to ecosystems a typical organismic property such as health. In other words, one wonders whether an ecosystem can be indeed healthy or unhealthy. ...
(Colu Technologies DLT limited2018, p. 2) upon which communities can create their own currencies and implement mechanisms of consensus and power depending on their place-based definitions of value and culture. Such umbrella systems using blockchain enable a new way of working, where place-based ...
If mid-air interaction is to be implemented in smart home environments, then the user would have to exercise in-air gestures to address and manipulate multiple devices. This paper investigates a user-defined gesture vocabulary for basic control of a smart home device ecosystem, consisting of 7 ...