With the rapid growth of information and communication technologies, the attempt for more convenient, safe, and sustainable urban development has been going around the world. The Korean government has launched a R&D project to develop a new software platform that supports the smart city applications such as transportation, anti-disaster, anti-crime, and eco-friendly environment. This paper repo...

The level of detail (LOD) concept of the OGC standard CityGML 2.0 is intended to differentiate multi-scale representations of semantic 3D city models. The concept is in practice principally used to indicate the geometric detail of a model, primarily of buildings. Despite the popularity and the general acceptance of this categorisation, we argue in this paper that from a geometric point of view ...

The human genome is by far the largest genome to be sequenced, and its size and complexity present many challenges for sequence assembly. The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium constructed a map of the whole genome to enable the selection of clones for sequencing and for the accurate assembly of the genome sequence. Here we report the construction of the whole-genome bacterial art...

MOTIVATION In high-throughput projects aiming to identify rare positives using a binary assay, smart-pooling constitutes an appealing strategy liable of significantly reducing the number of tests while correcting for experimental noise. In order to perform simulations for choosing an appropriate set of pools, and later to interpret the experimental results, the pool outcomes must be 'decoded'. ...

This paper focuses on two-tier City Logistics systems for advanced management of urban freight activities and, in particular, on the first layer of such systems where freight is moved from distributions centers on the outskirts of the city to satellite platforms’ by urban vehicles, from where it will be distributed to customers by other, dedicated vehicles. We address the issue of planning the ...

Yoshiaki TSURUTA, Kiyoshi ICEHIARA, SUmio YOSHINO, Kazuomi OGA, Kakusei UENO, Masahiro NAKAZATO, Kazuo OMURE, and Shohei YOSHIUE. The Department of Internal Medicine, Ome City General Hospital. Tatsuji KANETAKA, Kazuhiko MIYAKE, Chikayuki NAITO, Toshitsugu ODA, and Yawara YOSHITOSHI. The First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokyo. Toshio SHIKATA. The Departme...