This paper gives a high-level presentation of STAR-CITY, a system supporting semantic traffic analytics and reasoning for city. STAR-CITY, which integrates (human and machine-based) sensor data using variety of formats, velocities and volumes, has been designed to provide insight on historical and real-time traffic conditions, all supporting efficient urban planning. Our system demonstrates how...

This paper explored the use of ImportancePerformance Analysis in assessing the competitiveness of China’s Macao Special Administrative Region as a city for international conventions. Determinants of destination choice for convention tourists are grouped under three factors, namely the convention factor, the city factor and the tourism factor. Attributes of these three factors were studied throu...

Some cities publish data in an open form. But even more cities can profit from the data that is already available as open or linked data. Unfortunately open data of different sources is usually given also in different heterogeneous data formats. With the City Data Pipeline we aim to integrate data about cities in a common data model by using Semantic Web technologies. Eventually we want to supp...

This article examines the dreams and wishes of young-adult city residents regarding future ICT development, comparing its findings with two visions of ICT development offered by large-scale urban agendas, namely ‘smart cities’ and ‘ubiquitous computing.’ The article explores how the visions of ordinary city inhabitants contest or resonate with grand visions of urban future, and investigates alt...

Background. Although there are frequent studies about normal range of thoracic kyphosis, there is still a controversy about the exact values of this curve. In nine reported studies on 10 to 20 years of age boys, the value ranged from 25.1° to 53.3°. Objective for the Study. The aim of the present research was investigation of normal ranges of thoracic kyphosis in school children in Kermanshah, ...

Three-dimensional (3D) representation and visualization of city environments are employed in an increasing number of applications from the areas of urban planning, city marketing, tourism, facility management and emergency response. Presently, existing 3D city models are scattered over different public and private sections in different models, different data formats, and different levels of det...