We categorise contributions to an e-discussion platform using Classifier Induced Semantic Spaces and Self-Organising Maps. Analysing the contributions delivers insight into the nature of the communication process, makes it more comprehensible and renders the resulting decisions more transparent. Additionally, it can serve as a basis to monitor how the structure of the communication evolves over...

Opportunistic use of White Spaces (WS) has opened up a whole new paradigm in research on cognitive radio (CR). One of the issues addressed by the QoSMOS project is the design of a flexible and efficient physical layer (PHY) for CR systems. To this aim, different modulation techniques are being investigated and are presented in this paper. They fulfil the low out of band leakage and spectral eff...

importance of security and sense of peace is a one of the most important factors of urban environment. therefore, the necessity of security in urban spaces has caused the emergence of authentic theories like defensible spaces and crime prevention through environment design (cpted)*. in this paper, various literatures related to defensible space theories have been reviewed and the related keywor...

In smart spaces such as smart office and workplaces, users are surrounded by hundreds of networked devices and services which often vanish into the background. Therefore, the users are often unaware of possible tasks which they can achieve within a given physical space. Moreover, the user does not want to dig in a long list of individual services and devices for functionalities which are requir...

As part of a broader design framework for pervasive systems, we present here our ideas on how pervasive technologies may be integrated into the built environment. The essence of our approach is the effective integration of spaces (physical space + social dimensions) created by the built environment with interaction spaces created by computing resources distributed in that environment. Pervasive...

As a society, we have seen the quality of our public spaces declining for the past century. Urban areas have become more focused on the transportation of vehicles through the public space, as use of cars has increased, than on the ability of people to enjoy the space. This has led to city streets that function poorly in their ability to move traffic and act as a social center for the area. A ne...

Jurgen Habermas is second generation German scientist from the Frankfurt school as well aperson who wants to revise thoughts of first generations figures. Histhoughts on liberation colonialism (theoretical and social praxis), natural sciences, critical neo-Marxist spirit for change, impasse (enlightenment dialectic) communicative rationality in language (returning linguistics). The writing uses...

Przestrzenie publiczne przynoszą miastom oraz ich mieszkańcom i użytkownikom różnorodne korzyści społeczne ekonomiczne. Niniejszy artykuł przedstawia przegląd nierynkowych metod wyceny stosowanych do szacowania wartości ekonomicznej przestrzeni publicznych, z rozróżnieniem na metody bezpośrednie (preferencji deklarowanych) pośrednie ujawnionych). Autorka dokonała przeglądu kilku ważnych zastoso...

Biological pathways are abstract and functional visual representations of existing biological knowledge. By mapping high-throughput data on these representations, changes and patterns in biological systems on the genetic, metabolic and protein level are instantly assessable. Many public domain repositories exist for storing biological pathways, each applying its own conventions and storage form...