The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a study in early January highlighting the growing income disparities between the richest and poorest Canadians. Income tax files from 2007 show that the average income of the top 1% of income earners was over $400,000 compared to about $44,000 for the average Canadian, almost a tenfold difference. Those who laboured at the minimum wage earned...

A model of social interactions shows why and when reputation concerns may support an ‘underclass’ culture of street crime where the incentives for such behavior are otherwise weak. Those who do not gain from street crime directly nevertheless find it optimal to invest in violence and thereby build a reputation that will earn them deference from the rest of the community. Even when the fraction ...

The driving force behind the smart city initiative is to offer better, more specialized services which can improve the quality of life of the citizens while promoting sustainability. To achieve both of these apparently competing goals, services must be increasingly autonomous and continuously adaptive to changes in their environment and the information coming from other services. In this paper ...

The Intelligent Street is a music installation that is able to respond intelligently to the collective requests of users interacting together. The performance it creates is largely influenced by the collective set of text commands from users’ mobile phones. In this way, users in shared environments, subjugated for so long to uncontrollable and often undesired ‘Muzak’, can now directly influence...

A high-quality built environment is important for human health and well-being. Assessing the quality of urban can provide planners managers with decision-making renewal to improve resident satisfaction. Many studies evaluate from perspective street scenes, but it difficult street-view data cover every area its update frequency low, which cannot meet requirement built-environment assessment unde...

background to get more precise responses when gathering information about sensitive topics such as drug use, it is important to use the most optimal method. objectives this study was carried out to address the impact of three interview methods (street-based, household, and telephone interviews) on response pattern to sensitive and non-sensitive questions in terms of participation, disclosure an...

1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA 2 Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5A9 3 Electrified Armor Lab, RDECOM TARDEC, 6501 E. 11 Mile Road, RDTA-RS, MS 263, Warren, MI 48397-5000, USA 4Key Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science, Insti...

Three-dimensional (3D) multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) is one of the enabling technologies for next-generation mobile communication. As the elevation angle in the 3D MIMO channel model might vary against the height of the base station (BS) antenna, it should be considered within channel modeling. In this paper, the impact of antenna height on the channel characteristics of the 3D MIMO channel i...

The Seoul Road Sign Management (RSM) is a system which provides the semantic integration of LOD’s Linked Geo Data and Open Street Map with Korean POI data set. That is an attempt to develop intelligent road sign management system based on the LarKC platform. The RSM data set contains over 1.1 billion triples of semantic data. However, significant amount of the RSM data are noisy (e.g., inconsis...

aMax-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Heisenbergstr.3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany. bInstitute of Energy Technologies, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. cDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, S. San Francisco Street, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011, United States dInstituci Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (IC...