Information and communication technologies are often considered by policymakers, industrial stakeholders scientists as a key lever in the run towards sustainability, since they should ease energy efficiency dematerialization. In this opinion article, nurtured inputs of broad panel experts, we challenge widely spread view highlighting detrimental social environmental footprints caused digital te...

We propose to accelerate the rate of convergence of the pattern recognition task by directly minimizing the variance diameters of certain hypothesis spaces, which are critical quantities in fast-convergence results. We show that the variance diameters can be controlled by dividing hypothesis spaces into metric balls based on a new order metric. This order metric can be minimized as an ordinal r...

Urbanisation is a dynamic complex phenomenon involving large scale changes in the land uses at local levels. Analyses of changes in land uses in urban environments provide a historical perspective of land use and give an opportunity to assess the spatial patterns, correlation, trends, rate and impacts of the change, which would help in better regional planning and good governance of the region....