I. Overview. The mobile phone (and the smart phone, in particular) is increasingly displacing other mediums as a way to channel content. Given the growth and importance of the telecommunications industry in Africa, and the relentless penetration of smart phone technology, it is therefore unsurprising that Africans are consuming, and creating, an increasing volume of content, of both African and...

Weaving together the disciplines of planning and policy change with the emerging research of active living, this article explores the competing interests and underlying political forces behind the design and passage of Wisconsin's Comprehensive Planning Law of 1999. While Wisconsin's law remains a work in progress, it illustrates the contemporary policy battles over land use and smart growth an...

every year, a part of the national capital of the country is lost due to the disorders of traffic. an important part of the traffic disorders is caused by the improper behavior of some users of urban transport system. such a situation is contrary to the principles of smart growth and urban sustainability. the study of traffic conflicts as a symbol of the society culture of traffic can lead city...

Accurate identification of spindle health in real-time is an important feature of next generation smart machining systems that are capable of self-diagnosis. This paper presents a software design for an automated spindle health monitoring system based on open systems architecture. An analytic waveletbased envelope spectrum algorithm is proposed and coded in software for effective and efficient ...

To face the rapid growth of the world elderly population, health smart homes with sensing technology are emerging to automatically detect early loss of autonomy using objective criterion such as the Activity of Daily Living grid. The paper presents data mining techniques to classify seven activities in a health smart home using only the most relevant attributes. The evaluation has shown that a ...

Since last-decade, smart-phones have gained widespread usage. Mobile devices store personal details such as contacts and text messages. Due to this extensive growth, smart-phones are attracted towards cyber-criminals. In this research work, we have done a systematic review of the terms related to malware detection algorithms and have also summarized behavioral description of some known mobile m...

With the rapid growth of the population and the increase in the elderly age group, there is a need to improve and maintain an independent, secure healthy lifestyle. A possible method to address this need is to apply intelligent technology using machine learning techniques in smart homes to remotely monitor an individual’ s activities. The MavHome project uses a system of basic sensors to monito...

With the rapid growth of socio-technical ecosystems, smart interactions and services will proliferate and permeate every walk of life. Smart services are context-aware—are able to detect its current state or context and determine what interactions to perform or how to tailor services based on its context. In this endeavour, the capability of the system to adjust its behaviour in response to its...

The large spreading of e-democracy and e-participatory tools and environments showed, and is still showing, that technologies offer new direction for dealing with the challenge of scaling the deliberative democracy perspective up to the urban governance scale [10] [20]. The recent growth of ULLs and Human Smart City initiatives is disclosing a promising bridge between the micro-scale of decisio...

Energy is an indispensable factor for the economic growth and development of a country. Energy consumption is rapidly increasing worldwide. To fulfill this energy demand, alternative energy sources and efficient utilization are being explored. Various sources of renewable energy and their efficient utilization are comprehensively reviewed and presented in this paper. Also the trend in research ...