A large collection of reproductions of calligraphy on paper was scanned into images to enable web access for both the academic community and the public. Calligraphic paper digitization technology is mature, but technology for segmentation, character coding, style classification, and identification of calligraphy are lacking. Therefore, computational tools for classification and quantification o...

In 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana experienced an interruption in its neighborhood life cycle due to Hurricane Katrina. While federal, state and local administrative policies have tried to manage the process of recovery, the non-profit sector has been a key to the recovery. This paper will examine the case study of the Beacon of Hope Resource Centre (BOH) whose ability to collect data, expand citi...

There is a fundamental incompatibility between efficiency, interim individual rationality, and budgetbalance in mechanism design, even for extremely simple settings. Yet it is possible to specify efficient mechanisms that satisfy participation and budgetbalance constraints in expectation, prior to types being realized. We do so here, in fact deriving mechanisms that are individually rational fo...

The goal of this research was to assess the usability of a voting system designed for current-generation smartphones. Smartphones offer remote participation in elections through the use of pervasive technology and voting on these devices could, among other benefits, increase voter participation while allowing voters to use familiar technology. We developed a mobile voting system for the iPhone ...

The inclusive Web-based Public Participation GIS (WPPGIS) domain has developed from the interactions of three principal domains: Public Participation (PP), Internet and GIS. Each two domains create distinct sub-domains: PPGIS, Web-based PP and Web-based GIS, each of which has been researched in its own right. A successful WPPGIS utilizes the dominant properties of the above sub-domains to creat...

Public participation in planning assessment in Australia emerged in the context of social and political changes of the 1970s. Increasing criticisms of planning in the rational comprehensive model fuelled by opposition to large-scale construction and demolition, along with the perception of close alliances between developers, investors and State Governments, led to widespread calls for greater c...