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Although research in the areas of human mobility and social networks is extensive, our knowledge of the relationship between the mobility and the social network of an individual is very limited, mainly due to the complexity of accessing adequate data to be able to capture both mobility and social interactions. In this paper we present and characterize some of the spatio-temporal features of social...
The Internet has created a universal medium wherein peoples of the world engage in dialogue and participate in a myriad of activities, despite the medium lacking universally enforceable rules of conduct. This absence, or perceived weakness, of Governance in and of the Internet, has aided the creation of a sphere of existence wherein issues such as censorship, violation of the end-to-end principle,...
With the recent advances in technology, we have the opportunity to study the city dynamics at a large scale. A fundamental step is to be able to sense extensive areas. Participatory sensor networks have the potential to become a very fundamental tool to study social behavior at a large scale. Currently, there are some location sharing services, such as Foursquare, that record the user's location along...
With the rapid growth of cities, urban planners are facing with challenges including road congestion, population overburden and so on. Managing such big and complex cities requires better understanding of the urban blocks' property. Traditional ways are mostly based on manual survey, which cost much and take long time. In this paper, we present a method to analyze the urban blocks' property and activity...
Located in the Western Hubei eco-tourism circle, the Wudangshan Tourism and Economic Special Zone, has beautiful scenery and good natural environment. The ecological protection will become especially important. Therefore, it is very significant to research on ecological land of the Special Zone. The types of ecological land use were first defined in the article. Then, various types of land use changes...
Extreme weather events over Pakistan have been increasing. This is contributing to the ever enhancing human suffering of the region. The present study investigates the extreme rainfall in Pakistan by using General Pareto Distribution (GPD) method. This in turn is used to analyze extraordinary rainfalls of summer 2010. The results indicate that during the summer 2010 northwestern parts of Pakistan...
Cooperation and development are the mainstream of current world, economic globalization and regional integration are the objective tendency that current world develops. Modern tourism development is inseparable from the regional cooperation, therefore, strengthening regional tourism cooperation is the objective requirement of the tourism industry's development, and is also the new impetus of regional...
In this paper we proposed a new method for selecting a smoothing parameter in kernel estimator to estimate a nonparametric regression function in the presence of missing values. The proposed method is based on work on the golden ratio and Surah AL-E-Imran in the Qur'an. Simulation experiments were conducted to study a small sample behavior. The results proved the superiority the proposed on the competition...
The dynamics of collective attention emerging out of individual viewing experiences from public displays appear to be among the most demanding challenges in understanding the mechanisms of self-adaptation of public opinion. In this paper we approach a model of collective attention from observations of the attention of individuals estimated from their efforts expressing interest. Extending on SEEV,...
Spatial distribution analysis of environmental health risk in the Tomsk area was performed. Risk estimation was done according to standard methodology on the basis of geochemical data from the snow cover of the area. The city territory was divided into areas with different levels of ecological damage and human health risk values. The city territory was ranked in accordance to risk level from exposure...
This visionary paper outlines a future intelligent building office space room system that seeks to ensure that the users of a rent able and/or shared office space do not perform actions that are likely to compromise IT security. We propose that a novel room agent leverages the emergent"smart" city paradigm so as to form an accurate a measure as possible of the trustworthiness of the human...
Nowadays, waste management face serious problems. The annual waste generation increases in proportion to the rises in population and urbanization. This research is case study in Bandung city. Bandung city produce more organic waste and fewer recyclable items. Reliable data on waste management is difficult to obtain, and even if available, they are often not updated. We report the most recent waste...
Now entering its sixth consecutive year, the last four being in conjunction with DSN, the primary theme of WRAITS is “intrusion tolerance” (IT for short). IT starts with the premise that software-based components will always contain bugs and misconfigurations that can be discovered, exposed and enabled by the increasingly new ways in which distributed and networked computer systems are being created...
As the urban populations increase we have to think more deeply about how to make cities less stressful and more creative for people to live in. Live ability and quality of life are key factors whilst designing and managing energy, water, pollution and waste systems which are sustainable for the long term. New approaches are proposed with recommendations for achieving these goals.
Urban construction and other human activities have been changing the local and regional ecosystems and causing a lot of ecological problems. After reviewing the problems happened, this paper presents a theoretical framework of ecological researches analyzing what should be done to meet the needs and the orders of the natural patterns and processes. This framework is now used in our project of the...
Landscapes are essential for society, tourism industries and local communities. The development of tools capable to assess their environmental and socioeconomic importance are fundamental to preserve their aesthetic integrity, especially in coastal areas facing strong anthropogenic pressure. Online photo databases enable users to localize their images via GPS coordinates and share their photo albums...
Virtual maps technology is one of many innovations of the past decade. Currently navigation with such maps is generally performed using keyboard and mouse inputs. For improved human social communication, there is a need for more effective and unobtrusive navigation methods. In this paper, we adopt a human-centric approach to reinvent the way in which users interact with virtual maps. The proposed...
Location-sharing services such as Foursquare provide a rich source of information about the visits of users to locations. In the case of Foursquare, users voluntarily ‘check in’ to places they visit using a mobile application. An analysis of these data may reveal differences in users personality in terms of their mobility habits, preferred places, and action and location patterns. This knowledge about...
To evaluate the ambient air quality status of the Fuxin city in Aug-Nov, 2011, we established fuzzy comprehensive evaluation mathematical model and membership function using lower semi-trapezoid distribution through the distribution of data collection and selecting the main factor affecting air quality, and have the result that urban monthly average air quality has declined with the temperature during...
We have performed city-verification of videos based on the videos' audio and metadata, using videos from the MediaEval Placing Task's video set, which contain consumer-produced videos “from-the-wild”. 18 cities were used as targets, for which acoustic and language models were trained, and against which test videos were scored. We have obtained the first known results for the city verification task,...
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