Over the past several years, as cities in the United States have faced increasing fiscal pressures, there has been a reinvigorated interest in the promise of smart cities, intelligent cities, digital cities, open source cities and media cities, which advocate the use of digital technologies to make cities more efficient, productive, innovative and attractive. However, the appropriation and use ...

in this paper, the problem of decentralized model reference adaptive control (mrac) for a class of large scale systems with time varying delay in interconnected term and input and state delays is studied. to compensate the effect of input delay indirectly, a smith predictor built on. to handle the effects of the time delays in input, the adaptive controller part includes two auxiliary dynamic f...

Informational cities are prototypical cities of the knowledge society. If they are informational world cities, they are new centers of power. According to Manuel Castells (1989), in those cities space of flows (flows of money, power, and information) tend to override space of places. Information and communication technology infrastructures, cognitive infrastructures (as groundwork of knowledge ...

Community participation and empowerment are core principles underpinning the Healthy Cities movement. By providing an overview of theory and presenting the relevant findings of evaluations, this article explores how cities in the WHO European Healthy Cities Network have integrated community participation and empowerment within their development. Reflecting the inclusion of public participation ...

As urban populations continue to grow through the 21st century, more people are projected be at risk of exposure climate change-induced extreme events. To investigate complexity floods, this study applied an interlinked social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) vulnerability framework by developing flood index for six US cities. Indicators were selected reflect and illustrate exposure, sen...

The rapidly growing aging population is a global phenomenon imposing societal challenges on many cities. ‘Aging-in-place’ as popular concept accommodates both the elderly desire to age in familiar environment and adaptive old home modifications for aging. However, this has not been explored in-depth systematically urban regeneration context. This article explores form of aging-in-place that sui...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the importance of conversing within cities, organizations and beyond, in order to adapt to the rapidly changing environment and promote co-operation, participation and with special reference to European cities. Design/methodology/approach – This paper brings examples and case studies of how the concepts of conversing cities has been and is being...

Diversity in lifestyles and socioeconomic status among European populations, and recent socio-political and economic changes in transitional countries, may affect changes in adiposity. We aimed to determine whether change in the prevalence of obesity varies between the socio-politically transitional North-East European (Łódź, Poland; Szeged, Hungary; Tartu, Estonia), and the non-transitional Me...

Convolutional neural networks based object detection usually assumes that training and test data have the same distribution, which, however, does not always hold in real-world applications. In autonomous vehicles, driving scene (target domain) consists of unconstrained road environments which cannot all possibly be observed (source this will lead to a sharp drop accuracy detector. paper, we pro...

Cities can be viewed as information architecture systems. Here, ‘architecture’ is used in the sense of computer architecture – it refers not to the design of buildings, but to how the components of a complex system interact. Information exchange includes the movement of people and goods, personal contact and interactions, telecommunications, as well as visual input from the environment. Informa...