Table Of ContentEMERGING INFORMATICS –
INNOVATIVE CONCEPTS
AND APPLICATIONS
Edited by Shah Jahan Miah
Emerging Informatics – Innovative Concepts and Applications
Edited by Shah Jahan Miah
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Contents
Preface IX
Section 1 Specialised Informatics and Applications 1
Chapter 1 Applications of Geospatial
Technologies for Practitioners:
An Emerging Perspective of Geospatial Education 3
Yusuf Adedoyin Aina
Chapter 2 Ethical Decisions in Emergent
Science, Engineering and Technologies 21
D. A. Vallero
Chapter 3 Cloud Versus Clouds:
Emergency Response
Communications at Large Scale Festivals
and Special Events – Innovative ICT Applications 49
David Gration and Shah J. Miah
Chapter 4 Expert System Design for Sewage Treatment Plant 63
J. Bouza-Fernandez, G. Gonzalez-Filgueira,
S. de las Heras Jimenez and D.Vazquez-Gonzalez
Chapter 5 Visualization the Natural Disasters
Simulations Results Based on Grid and Cloud Computing 85
E. Pajorova and Ladislav Hluchý
Chapter 6 An Emerging Decision Support Systems
Technology for Disastrous Actions Management 101
Shah Jahan Miah
Section 2 Emerging Business Informatics and Applications 111
Chapter 7 Information Security Management Accounting 113
Diego Abbo
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Chapter 8 RFID, an Emerging Wireless Technology
for Sustainable Customer Centric Operations 137
Stuart So
Chapter 9 Reorganization of Existing Business-Information
Model in Purpose to Improvement Production Process 155
Zoran Nježić and Vladimir Šimović
Section 3 Emerging Informatics in Railways 171
Chapter 10 Digital Railway System 173
Shi Tianyun, Wang Yingjie, Li Ping, Guo Ge,
Ma Xiaoning, Lu Wenlong, Wu Yanhua and Shi Yi
Section 4 Emerging Web Informatics and Applications 193
Chapter 11 A Guided Web Service Security Testing Method 195
Sébastien Salva
Chapter 12 Autonomous Decentralized Multi-Layer Cache
System to Low Latency User Push Web Services 223
Hironao Takahashi, Khalid Mahmood Malik and Kinji Mori
Chapter 13 Authentication of Script Format
Documents Using Watermarking Techniques 237
Mario Gonzalez-Lee, Mariko Nakano-Miyatake
and Hector Perez-Meana
Chapter 14 Running: A Mixed Language Software as an
e-Learning Solution for the State Budget Management 255
Guillaume Koum and Innocent Dzoupet
Preface
The title of this book “Emerging Informatics- Innovative Concepts and Applications”
encompasses emerging concepts and applications of information systems (IS)
development. The word “Emerging Informatics” expresses focal interest and its
meaning which has been reflected on different promising application areas in this
book. The word “emerging” represents most prominent new concepts or application
areas and the word “informatics” refers to how the new concepts and applications are
created, constructed and purposefully used through particular forms of information
models.
Prof. John Gammack and his colleagues (in the Book of Informatics) state that
informatics is the “art and science of information”. It is about human knowledge and
how it is constructed for useful meaning and purpose, for instance enhancing the
processes we experience and use in our daily life. Furthermore, the University of
Edinburgh (URL: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics /about/vision/
overview) suggests that Informatics incorporates research and learning aspects in a
number of existing academic disciplines - Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and
Computer Science. It is all about connecting thoughts, concepts and applications to
design and guide purposeful knowledge creation. In my book, I am exploring the
connecting elements between technologies and different problem spaces in an attempt
to design and create artificial systems for human operations and businesses.
Informatics as a discipline has many fields with their own bodies of significant
knowledge. Many application areas and concepts are growing through new research
explorations nowadays. The new areas and ideas help us outline the problems and
produce subsequent solutions for the future. This enhances our understanding of
emerging informatics and helps to prepare for the world we will experience tomorrow.
I have edited this book keeping in mind that we should continuously be addressing
the demands by providing useful knowledge that contributes to the enhancement of
the current body of informatics discipline. The author of each chapter brings their
individual research and relevant contributions to their area of interest. I have had no
control as editor, over the quality and rigorousness of the research that they have
presented in their chapter. I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of the
authors for their significant contributions to this book.
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The book has been produced for the researchers and industry practitioners who are
interested in learning about the emerging fields and applications in informatics. It has
been structured into four sections. Section 1 (Specialised informatics and applications)
provides induced technical concepts to emergent problem solving. Section 2 (Emerging
business informatics and applications) includes technical concepts for business
applications. Section 3 (Emerging informatics in railways) includes innovative
approaches for effective and efficient railway system design and development. Finally,
section 4 (Emerging web informatics and applications) includes new technologies for web
service design.
I will be pleased if this book could contribute to the human community and its
systems on this planet in some small way. I would like to thank all those who have
contributed to publishing this work.
Dr Shah Jahan Miah,
Lecturer of Information Systems at Victoria University, Melbourne,
Australia
