Compounds are generally acknowledged to be formed by at least two words (e.g. Eng. taxi-driver, postman, It. divano-letto ‘sofa-bed’, camposanto ‘cemetery’, Fr. tire bouchon ‘cork-screw’, timbre-poste ‘stamp’, etc.). Though this definition does not always hold true, it is nonetheless descriptively valid for the core of compounding processes. Since we have reasons to believe that the classificat...

Mobility is efficient, safe and affordable travel in our cities, towns and other places of interest [52]. Mobility services, e.g., routing and navigation, are a set of ideas and technologies that facilitate understanding the geo-physical world, knowing and communicating relations to places in that world, and navigating through those places. The transformational potential of mobility services is...

This study examines whether 4-8-Hz theta oscillations can be seen in the human hippocampus, and whether these oscillations increase during virtual movement and searching, as they do in rodents. Recordings from both hippocampal and neocortical depth electrodes were analyzed while six epileptic patients played a virtual taxi-driver game. During the game, the patients alternated between searching ...

The authors modestly claim that their first objective is to present a personalized account of the origins of this great Spaniard. This is done by a brilliantly executed travelogue. We are intimately conducted from Cajal's birthplace by devious and sometimes hazardous routes (one can almost see the taxi-driver and his seedy Renault) through villages and countryside to Madrid and beyond-from hars...

We studied the electrophysiological basis of object recognition by recording scalp electroencephalograms while participants played a virtual-reality taxi driver game. Participants searched for passengers and stores during virtual navigation in simulated towns. We compared oscillatory brain activity in response to store views that were targets or nontargets (during store search) or neutral (duri...

Because of travel time uncertainty in traffic networks, the shortest path determined with a priori information may consist of links for which there are long delays and the path may not be optimal. Adaptive routing would suggest more reliable guidance by providing alternative links for en-route switching in the case of traffic congestion and a risk-averse hyperpath particularly provides an alter...

The dynamic assignment problem arises in a number of application areas in transportation and logistics. Taxi drivers have to be assigned to pick up passengers, police have to be assigned to emergencies, and truck drivers have to pick up and carry loads of freight. All of these problems are characterized by demands that arrive continuously and randomly throughout the day, and require a dispatche...

The growth of mobile and sensor technologies today leads to the digitization of individual's offline behavior. Such large-scale and fine-grained information can help better understand individual decision making. We instantiate our research by analyzing the digitized taxi trails to study the impact of information on driver behavior and economic outcome. We propose homogeneous and heterogeneous B...

Spatial computing is a set of ideas and technologies that facilitate understanding the geo-physical world, knowing and communicating relations to places in that world, and navigating through those places. The transformational potential of mobility services is already evident. From Google Maps [17] to consumer Global Positioning System (GPS) devices, society has benefited immensely from spatial ...

We examine the ability of male immigrants to transfer their occupational human capital using information from the O*NET and a unique dataset that includes both the last source country occupation and the first four years of occupations in Canada. We first augment a model of occupational choice and skill accumulation to derive predictions about the cross-border transferability of occupational hum...