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Port authorities have the need to manage diverse information within the port area under its responsibility regarding their land and sea infrastructures. Through this innovation, which adds value to the port and its activity, it is made an interconnection of strategic areas, with the provision and sharing of structured data in a georeferenced environment. This work presents an innovative platform, based on various modules and allows effective control and efficient management of operations, processes and requirements associated with any sea port. The developed modules are designed to support the activities of business processes in the following areas of the port administration: Heritage, Hydrography, Port Traffic, Dominial, Studies and Works, Safety and Environment. Most of these modules were pioneers in the integration with business process management of portuguese ports of Leixoes and Viana do Castelo.

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SDIs allow the gathering of technical and organizational elements needed to enable the usage of territorial based information in an interoperable way. However, the cost of managing an SDI is high and the expertise level required is too specialized which, combined, hamper its maintenance and operation. This work, still in progress, presents a proposal for a manager for a regional level SDI, free software based, following the European INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community) directive principles and complying with OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standards. This CMS (Content Management System) for the SDI will shield the user from the inherent complexity and ease the creation of innovative services and the integration of cross-sectorial applications for a given region, using the geographic information generated by each municipality, as well as provide data for sibling SDIs (inter regional) and parent SDIs (supra regional).

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The complexity of the number of stakeholders, information systems used, and port operations evoke new challenges to port security when it comes to the total knowledge and control of the overall operations of transport and parking of containerized freight, namely hazmat ones. The rising interest and the port authorities' awareness of the relevance of security concerns involved in this complex ecosystem has led to the search for new technological solutions that allow, in an integrated manner, the smart and automatic control of operations of transport and hazardous freight parking in all the areas of its jurisdiction, without third-party dependencies. Despite its importance and criticality, port authorities tend to have limited real-time knowledge of the location of hazmat containers, whether moving within the port (entering and leaving), or in its parking, having a direct impact on the port security. This article presents a Digital Twin platform for 3D and real-time georeferenced visualization of container parks and the location of hazardous containerized freight. This tool combines different modules that further allow to visualize information associated to a container, its movement, as well as its surrounding area, including a realistic and dynamic 3D representation of what is the area encircling the port.

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Rich Internet Applications (RIA) technology leads to new opportunities in Web development, adding a new level of usability and overcoming several limitations of traditional Web applications. However, there are still a few gaps in RIA development, namely the lack of methodologies enabling direct evolution of traditionally developed Web applications into this new concept. This paper describes a methodology to adapt User Interfaces (UI) from Web 1.0 into Web 2.0 introducing RIA capabilities, maintaining the business logic and data access layers legacy. The main system architecture is maintained and the new concept is achieved by adding a new Web services encapsulation layer responsible to intermediate the business logic layer and the new UI layer, providing a seamless and dynamic integration. For validating this methodology, a prototype was developed by applying and evaluating the suggested methodology. The results obtained validate that this methodology is appropriate for the given problem. © 2009 IADIS.

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Spatial data infrastructures (SDI) are extremely important in order to combine the technical and organizational elements required to promote the use of territory-based information in an interoperable way. In fact, geographic information has unique intrinsic features, which makes it a natural indexing mechanism for spatial data. Due to its high cost and upgrade dynamics, this information should be available for reuse and should be managed and maintained by those responsible for producing it as part of management interventions in the territory. Therefore, it is important that different spatial data infrastructures, developed at different hierarchical levels, coexist and communicate in an interoperable way so that they can constitute a spatial basis of reference that facilitates the integration with other sectorial applications. This ongoing work proposes the implementation of a regional spatial data infrastructure based on free software, in compliance with the principles of the EU INSPIRE Directive and with the OGC standards.