During the last decade, many European digital cities applied ICT to improve the local public sphere, reinforce local democracy, support local communities and increase social participation. Different policies of a variety of stakeholders led to a wide variation of designs and functionality, content, main actors, aims and philosophy, organization, and use and users. To build a useful and sustaina...

To provide effective support for education and training of U-City manpower, it is necessary to analyze its demand and develop the appropriate education course. Development of education courses requires reviewing the cases of other industries, understanding the demands of each educatees, developing the education courses in detail, and making the standard teaching materials. Therefore, this study...

There have been several major lines of research on the theoretical understanding of neural networks. The first one deals with understanding the properties of the objective function used when training neural networks (Choromanska et al., 2014; Sagun et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2015; Livni et al., 2014; Kawaguchi, 2016). The second involves studying the black-box optimization algorithms that are ...

Ranked fourth in the list of mental illnesses, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) accounts for about ten percent of patients visiting medical centers. There have so far been various methods of treatment for OCD. An attempt was made in this study to determine the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) on clinical signs and emotion regulation among patients with OCD. This was a quas...

This paper presents the methods to predict the number of people waiting in queues in Districts Offices of the City of Warsaw. On the basis of information from real-time queues length exposed as a part of Open City Data portal we can predict number of people in given time frame, which can be then used to further estimate predicted waiting time. These information are important and useful for numb...

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Smart tourism is a new buzzword applied to describe the increasing reliance of tourism destinations, their industries and their tourists on emerging forms of ICT that allow for massive amounts of data to be transformed into value propositions. However, it remains ill-defined as a concept, which hinders its theoretical development. The paper defines smart tourism, sheds light on current smart to...