TOWARDS RENOVATION OF RUSSIAN CITIES

Towards a User-Controlled Software Renovation Factory

Part of software maintenance consists in applying program transformations system-wide. In a number of recent papers, a factory approach has been advocated in which one program after another is fed to an assembly line that consists of a sequence of transformation tools. The general feeling seems to be that such factories have to be constructed and operated by specialists (the ‘vendors’). We thin...

Russian Arctic Cities in the Context of Climate Change

For centuries, humans lived in the Arctic in relatively small, self-sustained communities in harmony with the harsh local climate and environment. In contrast to that earlier period, the modern Russian Arctic is characterized by intensive urban development, including cities whose populations exceed more than 100,000 people. “Urbanization” peaked in the period between the late 1950s and 1980s. D...

Towards Parallel Czech-Russian Dependency Treebank

In this paper we describe initial steps in constructing a Czech-Russian dependency treebank and discuss the perspectives of its development. Following the experience of the Czech-English Parallel Treebank we have taken a syntactically annotated “gold standard” text for one language (Russian) and run an automatic annotation on the respective parallel text for the other language (Czech). Our tree...

Towards a social approach to digital cities

The paper discusses the strategy followed in a digital cities project named Gaia Digital. This project is an ongoing threeyear project sponsored by the Portugal Digital Initiative, within the Information Society operation program framework. It provides a digital city counterpart for Vila Nova de Gaia, a Portuguese town with around 288.000 inhabitants, considering 2001 figures. The Gaia Digital ...

Towards a new political project for cities