This paper presents the first stages of a larger project concerning the study and realization of a 3D interactive environment of everyday life in 19th century Nicosia. The presented study involves the recreation of the built urban environment (i.e. the architecture of the city) based on historic and archival information taken from the first Land Registry documentations taking place on the islan...

column Free AccessTHINKING ISSUESLoosening ties: permanently virtual teams and the melting iceberg of relationship Share on Author: Tony Clear Auckland University Technology TechnologyView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM InroadsVolume 12Issue 3September 2021 pp 6–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3479419Online:14 August 2021Publication History 0citation156DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Download...

One of the most memorable and unsettling works of historical fiction to appear in the last 15 years is Louis de Bernières’ Birds without Wings, which tells the stories of the inhabitants of Eskibahçe, a fictional village in the Ottoman Empire, in the years before, during and after the First World War. At times, the book makes for harrowing reading, especially the chapters that deal with the exp...

The article deals with the history of contacts between mountain peoples Caucasus and Kurds Ottoman Empire Persia in 18th - 19th centuries. Using diplomatic other official documents, as well memoirs summarizing results previous studies, analyzes dynamics characteristics these context geopolitical rivalry several empires region. proximity Dagestan Kurdistan, their location at crossroads merchants...

Given a set of attributed subgraphs known to be from different classes, how can we discover their differences? There are many cases where collections of subgraphs may be contrasted against each other. For example, they may be assigned ground truth labels (spam/not-spam), or it may be desired to directly compare the biological networks of different species or compound networks of different chemi...