According to one definition, Smart City is an administrative unit that uses data and digital technology improve the decision-making processes well-being of its inhabitants. Cities use modern, intelligent technologies forecast future changes, optimize city functions, gain a better understanding current conditions, deliver solutions. To make smart, multiple connected sensors, smartphones other Io...

This paper presents a cache management scheme for object-based storage, which consists of three main aspects. First, the cache update policy is proposed. The strategy considers the overall cache as a pool, consistency and accuracy of updating is ensured through the locking mechanism, while using Bloom Filter combined with the updated time series to achieve updating simplification. Secondly, the...

Microsoft sought to reduce energy use on its Puget Sound campus by enhancing analysis of energy consumption and building system optimization. The pilot project focused on 13 diverse buildings, representing 2.6 million square feet and equipped with various building management systems. An analytical layer above the existing building management systems was deployed to provide a consolidated view o...

A home automation system basically consists of household appliances linked via a communication network allowing interactions for control purposes (Palensky & Posta, 1997). Thanks to this network, a load management mechanism can be carried out: it is called distributed control in (Wacks, 1993). Load management allows inhabitants to adjust power consumption according to expected comfort, energy p...

results predictable increase of alcohol consumption after the anti-alcohol campaign facilitated the economical reforms of the early 1990s: workers and some intelligentsia did not oppose privatizations of state-owned enterprises partly due to their drunkenness, involvement in workplace theft and use of equipment for profit, which was often tolerated by the management at that and earlier time. co...

The Lake Champlain Basin in Vermont and New York, USA and Quebec, Canada includes a large lake and watershed with complex management issues. A transboundary comprehensive management plan prepared for the lake includes 11 goals across many issue areas. We developed a choice experiment to examine public preferences for alternative Lake Champlain management scenarios across these issue areas. Five...