Increasing FAIRness by sustainable modelling of interactions of parties with land administration systems

In recent years, mobile and web applications are being used extensively and availability of data, including geospatial data has increased dramatically. With the outbreak of Covid-19 this was emphasised even more. The emphasis from large IT systems has shifted towards modular service-oriented systems. This allows easier upgrading and adding of...

Patterns of Circular Transition: What Is the Circular Economy Maturity of Belgian Ports?

Large seaport hubs in Northwestern Europe are aiming to develop as circular hotspots and are striving to become first movers in the circular economy (CE) transition. In order to facilitate their transition, it is therefore relevant to unravel potential patterns of the circular transition that ports are currently undertaking. In this paper, we...

Terra–ink additive earth manufacturing for emergency architecture

In recent years, natural disaster and military conflicts forced vast numbers of people to flee their home countries, contributing to the migration crisis we are facing today. According to the UNHCR, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide reached the highest level since World War II. Post-disaster housing is by nature diverse and...

Application of Workflow Management System to the Modelling of Processes in Land Administration Systems

Cadastral data are maintained through formally defined procedures which need to provide security and consistency. Databases and transactional model enable consistency but lack flexibility in modelling business processes and support for heterogenous IT environments (web services, various programs). Transactional workflow management systems (WFMS)...

Personalized design process for persuasive technologies

In this position paper we discuss the application of personalization in persuasive technology design in light of the Personalized Design Process model (PDP-model). The PDP-model defines personalization as aligning a persuasive product to the end-user by stakeholder involvement (i.e. designers, endusers, domain experts and family/relatives)...

‘Change for the Better?’—making sense of housing association mergers in the Netherlands and England

Mergers among housing associations have become a frequent phenomenon in both the Netherlands and England. The general literature on mergers highlights the need for research to consider the wider political and business environment, managerial motives and strategic choices, to adopt a process perspective and to evaluate outcomes in relation to...

Implementation of the process interaction approach in a general-purpose language