This paper explores the substantial effect that the critical understanding and techno-political consideration of data are having in some smart city strategies. Particularly, the paper presents some results of a comparative study of four cases of smart city transitions: Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao. Likewise, considering how relevant the city-regional path-dependency is in each territ...

TERENCE is an FP7 ICT European project, highly multidisciplinary, that is developing an adaptive learning system for supporting poor comprehenders and their educators. The paper describes the automatic smart games generation process in TERENCE, motivates the need for a manual revision and describes it in detail. The paper thus provides a thorough insight in understanding the quality level of th...

Although various methods of procedurally generating cities have been proposed in recent years, the problem remains that a user desiring a city from a particular time period or country would have to make time-consuming modifications to an already existing engine to achieve acceptable results. This paper proposes a set of programmable elements that can be adjusted to accommodate for buildings fro...

South African communities are constantly being developed through new ICT projects which are initiated by individuals, government and private organisations. The problem with these developments is that they are implemented in isolation. This isolation causes limited sharing of resources, duplication, poor-governance of the resources and in worse-case scenarios, failure of project initiatives. Thi...

n root of a Lie algebra and its dual (that is fractional supergroup ) based on the permutation group Sn invariant forms is formulated in the Hopf algebra formalism. Detailed discussion of S3-graded sl(2) algebras is done.

Technopark is a union of companies called residents that implement innovation activities. Development of the competence management system for technoparks is currently a relevant task. Such system allows automating the process of resident’s search that can satisfy potential customer tasks. The paper presents a smart space-based approach for competence management system development and implementa...

This paper presents the problem of the current separate treatment of levels of detail in city models. We propose a solution, detail the main principles, and present our initial results on the approach. We conclude with work in progress and explain the benefits of our approach.