About This Special Issue
One of the main questions to qualify an action that occurs is the "Where" question. The "Where" helps to enhance an activity description by providing the location’ characteristics. The activity may be related to public, private, family or business affairs. The extended domains of the "Where" usability show its great importance in human life. The "Where" answer is a location, a place or an object position of a given action. The common word used to identify those information encapsulated in the "Where" answer is called an "Address".
The address information is either classified geo-located or administrative. The geo-located address uses world longitude/latitude/altitude coordinates (or Cartesian coordinates). The geographic location' result precision may be a fine granularity less than 10 meters from target object position or a large granularity answer for example the location of an action may be identified at the North, West, East, Center or South of a country, region or city. As of the administrative address, it may use country subdivisions defined by the government authorities or by the organization managers to identify the organization units' locations.
In many IT (Information Technology) projects, the address module is generally re-written. The main reason is that the addressing of the organization subdivisions and their units hierarchical relationships should be represented and mapped to the country subdivisions made by government authorities. Another reason is that managed objects are tightly coupled to an address, don’t keep a location quality for a discovery purpose due to the object mobility.
The main goal is to provide an efficient design, reusable and exploitable address module for software applications. The outcome of the work will help maintaining accurate address and reducing the software development costs.
Potential topics:
Relational Model
The research axis consists to design and proposed a set of relational data techniques and solutions that will speed the address management efficiency, quality and integration.
Operational Data Integration
The research axis consists to consider specific database engines, then design and propose a set of techniques and data algorithms that will improve the address query design and performance.
BI Model
The research axis consists to design and propose a set of BI data techniques and solutions that will speed the BI address management efficiency, quality and integration.t.
Exploitable Data
The research axis consists to consider specific database engines, then design and propose a set of relevant subjects ready to use, approaches or methodologies related to specific OLAP vendor, address data visualization and data reporting algorithms.
Address Mobility
This axis focus to develop mobility models and algorithms that improve the quality and the performance of an address research.
Data Science/AI
This axis focus to develop mobility models and algorithms that improve the quality and the performance of an address research.