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This paper addresses the issue of reinforcing the existing friendship between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the People's Republic of China from a perspective of design and innovation. Since innovation represents the change the world is currently experiencing, the present researcher anticipates the Saudi-Chinese relationship including a persistent collaboration in design, innovation and entrepreneurship,...
Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) are currently attracting attention as a new form of zero-emission vehicles, just as the commercialization of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is underway. In the prior 20 years, however, FCEVs failed to be properly commercialized. In this paper, a new approach to the emerging economy of FCEVs and a hydrogen refueling station (HRS) network are studied.
Ranking areas by popularity of a business category is an essential problem for business planning. Traditional approaches rely on economic and demographic factors nearby. However, the acquisition of relevant data is usually expensive. In this paper we propose a novel approach to address this problem by exploiting user-generated contents from location based social networks, which are cheap, fine-grained,...
In this paper, we propose a new wealth tunneling model between larger controlling shareholders and institution investors, and then analyze the related relationship between price discount of private equity placement and wealth-transferring effects. Price discount ratio and wealth transferring effects of private equity placement are closely related with subscribing private placement objects. Firm wealth...
The ubiquity of mobile sensors makes spatial crowd-sourcing a very promising platform for acquiring spatial tasks (i.e., tasks that are related to a location). Some frameworks have been successfully developed for crowdsourcing spatial tasks to a set of workers. Most of the current frameworks assume that all tasks belong to the same category and that workers are self-motivated to voluntarily perform...
We have developed a simulator for evaluating changes in travel quality experienced during travel in multi-modal transit systems. The simulator has a new behavior model for users of multimodal systems that includes changes of user satisfaction, route and mode choices during travel, and interaction with on-line route guidance. This paper proposes a method for implementing user behavior models based...
Geofencing is one of the components in the wider spectra of Ambient Assisted Living related applications. Such applications are meant to provide support to persons with disabilities or to those impaired, as well as to their caretakers. Within this context, geofencing targets the safe mobility of such persons. As mobility related data can be translated into events with a temporal dimension, we have...
The purpose of this paper is to build a model consisting of young consumers' personality, the use of online social network, and the luxury consumption tendency. We collected data from users of a popular online social network site in China, renren.com, which is Facebook copy. Over 150 respondents from two leading Chinese universities, respectively located at Beijing and Shanghai, volunteered to participate...
Policies play a crucial role in the development of National Economic and Technological Development Zones (NETDZs) in China. This paper scans the NETDZ policies in China from number distributions, departments involved and instruments, and studies policies' continuities, complementarities, absences and crosses. We conclude that: The main contents of NETDZ policies have evolved from initially offering...
Nowadays, there are many taxis traversing around the city searching for available passengers, but their hunts of passengers are not always efficient. To the dynamics of traffic and biased passenger distributions, current offline recommendations based on place of interests may not work well. In this paper, we define a new problem, global-optimal trajectory retrieving (GOTR), as finding a connected...
Service reuse aims at improving the efficiency of software development and providing common functionalities which are not linked to any particular business process. However, the existing service reuse methods are confined to the reuse of atomic services or processes encapsulated as stand-alone services. How to reuse arbitrary granularities of Service Process Fragment (SPF) is a challenging problem...
The evolution of cities based on the technology progress is providing a huge potential to enhance activities, services and economic development towards a better life quality. But cities have to deal with managing the growing diversity of data, applications and devices needed to develop services, and to tailor these services to each citizen's requirements. The establishment of human-centered computing...
In this paper, we present the MI-Search approach for enabling urban users to perform event-centric surfing of a multiplicity of web contents. MI-Search aims at exploiting traditional web sites and spontaneous user comments/posts in an integrated way, by relying on web data extracted from different sources and systems about the events of a selected urban space. The notion of smart city view is introduced...
The emerging infrastructure of the Smart Grid, and the multitude of the new energy services it will offer, is expected to radically affect business relationships among its stakeholders. Beyond enhancements in existing processes, innovative approaches will be made possible by relying on a fine-grained monitoring and control capabilities over modern informationcentric infrastructure. Traditional infrastructure...
On the basis of exploring the concept of Wisdom Mall, combined with technical analysis of the Internet of Things, this paper studies the features of Internet-of-Things-based Wisdom Mall, Based on the support infrastructure of comprehensive perception, reliable transmission, and smart processing, we should feature the wisdom mall management and service application with coordinative perception virtualization,...
Social relationships defined by phone calls made between people can be grouped into various relationship types or categories, such as family members, co-workers, etc. We propose and evaluate a method that predicts the "relationship type" between a pair of mobile phone subscribers using features that abstract their communication behavior and social network patterns. Our dataset consists of...
Electric assist bicycles which are becoming a part of modern life have the possibility to promote bicycle's excursion and the potentiality for the new travel mode responsive to the hilly landform and the aged society, so that it is important to verify practical effectiveness of them. In this paper, an analysis of effects of electric assist facilities on the excursion of bicyclists is conducted by...
The London Congestion Charging (LCC) scheme was initially introduced on 17 February 2003. Being the largest of its kind and employing advanced technology, it marked a major innovation in the field of urban road user charging and provided inspiration to several other cities worldwide. Nine years on, and following a number of operational changes that have taken place, this study analyzes successes and...
Recently, the diffusion behavior of industrial clusters has become one of the vital important phenomenons of the clusters upgrade or regulation. In this paper, we referred one of the classic immigration model based on the theory of phase-transition, which was brought by Weidlich and Haag; and adjusted the WH immigration model to explain the diffusion of the clusters. Finally, we got a novel immigration...
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