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The role of privately owned sports related green spaces in urban ecological frameworks (2009)
Book Chapter
James, P., & Gardner, E. (2009). The role of privately owned sports related green spaces in urban ecological frameworks. In P. Clark, M. Niemi, & J. Niemela (Eds.), Sport, recreation and green space in the European city (161-170). Helsinki: SKS Kirjat. https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.16

An ecological framework seeks to maintain ecological processes in the wider landscape and to conserve ecosystems, habitats, species, genetic diversity, and landscapes of importance. As greater attention is paid to ecological frameworks and in part... Read More about The role of privately owned sports related green spaces in urban ecological frameworks.

Comparing the end to end latency of an immersive collaborative environment and a video conference (2009)
Book Chapter
Roberts, D., Duckworth, T., Moore, C., Wolff, R., & O'Hare, J. (2009). Comparing the end to end latency of an immersive collaborative environment and a video conference. In 2009 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2009.43

Latency in a communication system can result in confusing a conversation through loss of causality as people exchange verbal and non-verbal nuances. This paper compares true end-to-end latencies across an immersive virtual environment and a video... Read More about Comparing the end to end latency of an immersive collaborative environment and a video conference.

Diversity in architecture : Glossary of sustainability (2009)
Book Chapter
Elkadi, H. (2009). Diversity in architecture : Glossary of sustainability. In S. Küchler, & S. Wallman (Eds.), Diversity management in practice : A cross-cultural & multi-disciplinary annotated bibliography addressing policy and well-being. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press

Digital construction through BIM systems will drive the re-engineering of construction business practices (2009)
Book Chapter
Mihindu, S., & Arayici, Y. (2009). Digital construction through BIM systems will drive the re-engineering of construction business practices. In Visualisation: in built and rural environments (29-34). IEEE computer society

The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications, via effective collaboration and communi... Read More about Digital construction through BIM systems will drive the re-engineering of construction business practices.

AI in software engineering : current developments and future prospects (2009)
Book Chapter
Meziane, F., & Vadera, S. (2009). AI in software engineering : current developments and future prospects. In F. Meziane, & S. Vadera (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Applications for Improved Software Engineering Development: New Prospects (273-294). Hershey, New York, USA: IGI Global

Artificial intelligences techniques such as knowledge based systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic and data mining have been advocated by many researchers and developers as the way to improve many of the software development activities. As with many o... Read More about AI in software engineering : current developments and future prospects.

Preparing learners for a digital world (2009)
Book Chapter
Keegan, H. (2009). Preparing learners for a digital world. In R. Smith (Ed.), Effective practice in a digital age (32-33). JISC

Effective Practice in a Digital Age is designed for those in further and higher education whose focus is on designing and supporting learning: academic staff, lecturers, tutors and learning support staff, facilitators, learning technologists and staf... Read More about Preparing learners for a digital world.

Potential obstacles to use BIM in architectural design (2009)
Book Chapter
Kiviniemi, A., & Fischer, M. (2009). Potential obstacles to use BIM in architectural design. In G. Shen, P. Brandon, & A. Baldwin (Eds.), Collaborative Construction Information Management (36-54). London: Taylor and Francis

The Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) practices are facing a radical change because of the emerging use of Building Information Models (BIM) instead of traditional CAD and 2D drafting. The change is starting to affect the work of arch... Read More about Potential obstacles to use BIM in architectural design.

Evaluating e-commerce trust using fuzzy logic (2009)
Book Chapter
Meziane, F., & Nefti-Meziani, S. (2009). Evaluating e-commerce trust using fuzzy logic. In W. Hu (Ed.), Selected readings on electronic commerce technologies: contemporary applications (272-285). Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA: IGI Global

Trust is widely recognized as an essential factor for the continual development of business-to-customer electronic commerce. Many trust models have been developed, however, and most are subjective and do not take into account the vagueness and ambigu... Read More about Evaluating e-commerce trust using fuzzy logic.

Living, teaching and learning by social software: some emerging themes and practice issues (2009)
Book Chapter
Keegan, H., & Lisewski, B. (2009). Living, teaching and learning by social software: some emerging themes and practice issues. In S. Hatzipanagos, & S. Warburton (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies (217-230). Hershey, Pennsylvania, US: IGI Global

This chapter explores emergent behaviours in the use of social software across multiple online communities of practice where informal learning occurs beyond traditional higher education (HE) institutional boundaries. Employing a combination of resear... Read More about Living, teaching and learning by social software: some emerging themes and practice issues.

Airborne and terrestrial laser scanning for measuring vegetation canopy structure (2009)
Book Chapter
Danson, F., Morsdorf, F., & Koetz, B. (2009). Airborne and terrestrial laser scanning for measuring vegetation canopy structure. In G. Heritage, & A. Large (Eds.), Laser Scanning for the Environmental Sciences (201-219). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444311952.ch13

Terrestrial vegetation covers 60% of the Earth’s land surface, varying spatially and temporally in cover, composition and function with climatic gradients and disturbance patterns. The vegetation canopy is the interface between the land surface and t... Read More about Airborne and terrestrial laser scanning for measuring vegetation canopy structure.

Producing 3D applications for urban planning by integrating 3D scanned building data with geo-spatial data (2009)
Book Chapter
Song, Y., Wang, H., Hamilton, A., & Arayici, Y. (2009). Producing 3D applications for urban planning by integrating 3D scanned building data with geo-spatial data. In 3D Geo-Information Sciences (397-412). SpringerLink

Visual Information Systems for urban planning can be produced in a variety of ways. In this paper we give an account of research into integrating scanned data with urban data sets to produce 3D applications that span built environment spatial scales... Read More about Producing 3D applications for urban planning by integrating 3D scanned building data with geo-spatial data.

Patterns of settlement compared (2009)
Book Chapter
Green, N., & Handley, J. (2009). Patterns of settlement compared. In Planning for Climate Change - strategies for mitigation and adpatation for spatial planners. London: Earthscan

Agriculture, innovation and environment (2009)
Book Chapter
Ferry, N., & Gatehouse, A. (2009). Agriculture, innovation and environment. In N. Ferry, & A. Gatehouse (Eds.), Environmental Impact of Genetically Modified Crops. CABI

Approximately 10.3 million farmers in 22 countries grew biotech (genetically modified) crops in 2006. Yet this technology remains one of the most controversial agricultural issues of current times. Many consumer and environmental lobby groups believe... Read More about Agriculture, innovation and environment.

Delivering BIM to the UK Market (2009)
Book Chapter
Bew, M., & Underwood, J. (2009). Delivering BIM to the UK Market. In J. Underwood, & U. Isikdag (Eds.), Handbook of research on building information modeling and construction informatics: concepts and technologies (30-64). New York: IGI Global

Technology has developed dramatically over the past five and particularly three decades. The way we live our lives has changed and is set to change ever more with the effects this technology has on our planet’s environment. Construction is one of the... Read More about Delivering BIM to the UK Market.

Geospatial views for RESTful BIM (2009)
Book Chapter
Isikdag, U., Underwood, J., Kuruoglu, M., & Abdul-Rahman, A. (2009). Geospatial views for RESTful BIM. In J. Underwood, & U. Isikdag (Eds.), Handbook of research on building information modeling and construction informatics: concepts and technologies (473-482). New York: IGI Global

In the near future Building Information Modelling will be applied in different areas of the AEC industry. Building Information Models (BIMs) will be used as resources to enable interoperability of software and ‘Building Information Modelling’ based I... Read More about Geospatial views for RESTful BIM.