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Understanding the change in retail structure has been a distinct challenge for many managers and policy analysts since the 1950s. Research has focused on concepts such as the wheel of retailing. However, this theory is more descriptive than explanatory of changes in market structure. In this paper we argue that changes in retail structure (discount stores, specialist stores, department stores and...
In this article, we show roadmaps of multiagent social simulation to illustrate directions of technological achievements. Compared with physical simulation, social simulation is still in a phase of establishing models of simulations. We focus three issues, 'undetermined model', 'obscure boundary', and 'incomplete data', and consider a way to overcome these issues by using huge computational powers...
This paper describes a semantic model for urban sustainability and its implementation as an ontology. The ontology functions as an integration layer for the heterogeneous data sources used to calculate the set of sustainability indicators. These indicators are integrated in the semantic model so they can be indexed by geographical area, semantic concept, or key sustainability category, and they can...
During recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the potential opportunities that can be attained with promoting Smart Cities; a concept that can be reached based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The Smart Cities concept is considered achievable by horizontal integration of a number of vertical industries in order to empower sustainability and improvements on quality...
Multi and intermodal freight transportation refers to moving loads by a sequence of transportation modes linked by mode-to-mode transfers performed at intermodal terminals, generally without directly handling the goods. Such transportation systems and the carriers that provide the associated services are often organized according to consolidation principles. Consolidation of the shipments of different...
This paper proposes an approach for sentence compression that only requires the part-of-speech information. The method is based on an observation of the human compression: adjacent words which form a meaning chunk usually are removed or retained together. We incorporate meaning chunk as a feature for a CRF-based sequence labeling system. Experimental results on English and Vietnamese compression datasets...
Housing location decision is basic information for transportation modeling. As the basis of trip generation its modelling is quite well-studied. These models are based on economic theories and assume the knowledge of a broad range of decisive information. At the same time people tend to make decision knowing far less information using heuristics. Utilizing this decision making process the question...
This part of the paper discusses after the broad areas (suiting the three background languages which were recommended by Pauli) of the ‘mythological world’, the ‘physical cosmos’ and the depth psychology, which gained a really worthy representation in the three great minds (Pauli, Jung and Kerényi), and the fourth one, bounded to the city of Zurich. The fourth key area is linked to the models of cosmic...
Understanding the large-scale environment has never been more important than today. Ecological parameters are changing drastically all over the world, and there is no answer why it is happening. There are so many environmental characteristics which we are able to measure and monitor. However, we do not really understand the meaning of all these environmental measurements. In this research we propose...
This paper attempts to apply a grey correlation analysis method and DEA model to solve the problem on strategic development of Xinjiang's logistics industry, which can be viewed as an important part of Xinjiang's economic development. This paper succeeds in solving the question of economy development of Xinjiang's logistics industry based on the perspective of the silk road economic zone.
Good community health service can offer residents healthcare and disease prevention. For the super residential communities surrounding the city, the population is huge and it is essential to build equivalent number of community hospitals. The reasonable site location facilitates residents' lives and achieves the most benefits with the least construction cost. It is necessary for the site selection...
The difference in statistical scales will bring different statistical results, so it is important and necessary to select statistical grids for the geographical conditions information statistics. This paper proposes a method of selecting statistical scale of geographical information with spatial autocorrelation being taken into account. By using geographic conditions census data and taking building...
This tutorial paper examines the operational and economic aspects of autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) systems, a rapidly emerging mode of personal transportation wherein robotic, self-driving vehicles transport customers in a given environment. We address AMoD systems along three dimensions: (1) modeling - analytical models capable of capturing the salient dynamic and stochastic features of customer...
Although various smart city projects are launched in all over the world, it is not obvious how to tailor the existing IoT and self-aware technologies for individual services, systematically. One of the reason is due to the lack of common view that can be used to investigate various smart city services across different domains. This paper proposes a domain-neutral execution model and an integrated...
The environment problem has aroused people's concern in recent years since the heavy haze weather. Agricultural products logistics, acting as one of the necessary activities to keep people's daily life and the main source of environmental pollution, receives widespread attention in the whole society. Basing on the field survey of agricultural products distribution system in Beijing, we clarify the...
Farmers' behavior of cultivated land protection in karst region affects ecological safety of Yangtze and Pearl River. Based on survey data collected from 399 farmers' investigation in Guizhou Province, the Logistic-ISM model was used to analyze the influencing factors. It shows that the distance between home and town, voluntary technique, numbers of contact information, numbers of exchange information...
The project concerns on the enhancement of the territory, from architecture to energy/infrastructures. Part of the project includes the involvement of urban people, according to there interpretation of the concept of social and work-life cycles of citizenship, energy and its saving, info on city (safety and comfort). This is the era of the standards of quality of life and productivity, with specific...
The aim of this paper is to present the state-of-practice in transport modelling in Budapest. BKK and its subcontractors created an integrated multimodal transport model (MTM) as a result of a three year process. This model is based on large-scale data gathering process and it will provide support for decision making processes. More solid, evidence based decisions can be made with the help of this...
This paper discusses a case study evaluating the potential impact of ITS traffic management on CO2 and Black carbon tailpipe emissions. Results are based on extensive microsimulations performed using a calibrated VISSIM model in combination with the AIRE model for calculating the tailpipe emissions from simulated vehicle trajectories. The ITS traffic management options hereby consist of easily implementable...
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