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An energy sharing framework of the smart community is proposed in this paper. The main objective of the framework application is decreasing power usage cost of the smart community by providing extra power-related services. A renewable power resource lease agreement between the community power supplier and the individual resource owner enables power sharing within the community. Each resource owner...
A key requirement in preparing for a growing UAS industry and for the integration of unmanned vehicles into the US national airspace, is a method for clear and specific forecasting. We must know what types of operations are being performed, where they will occur, and what types of vehicles will be used. Current demand forecast models are not tightly coupled to the real purpose of the mission requirements...
In this paper I bring together inter-disciplinary concerns from emergency management, crisis informatics and media studies to offer five critical perspectives on social media in disaster response and recovery. I argue social media become part of 'disaster data assemblages' that have heterogeneous economic, political, institutional and technological properties. These assemblages emerge from time-critical...
The decisive political and economic modifications operated at a global level added to the accelerated digitization process in which modern society lives originate the construction of a new ecosystem in which the organized masses have a fundamental role. This process of change invites reflection on the new collaborative trends that emerge within a rebellious society that doesn't find economic support...
This paper discusses the recent events and trajectory of Unconventional Hydrocarbon (UH) development in Europe and the United States, contrasting the ‘high-politics’ debate on UH with the ‘place-based’ perspectives of locally impacted communities. The unitary frames that dominate official political debates, industry responses and mainstream media texts, bifurcate UH development as an economy versus...
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