To provide effective support for education and training of U-City manpower, it is necessary to analyze its demand and develop the appropriate education course. Development of education courses requires reviewing the cases of other industries, understanding the demands of each educatees, developing the education courses in detail, and making the standard teaching materials. Therefore, this study...

We present an approximation algorithm for wireless link scheduling under the physical SINR interference model. In the link scheduling problem, it is given a set of n links in a metric space, each of which is a sender–receiver pair, and the objective is to schedule the links using the minimum amount of time. We focus on a variant of this fundamental problem where the power is fixed, i.e., the po...

This paper presents the methods to predict the number of people waiting in queues in Districts Offices of the City of Warsaw. On the basis of information from real-time queues length exposed as a part of Open City Data portal we can predict number of people in given time frame, which can be then used to further estimate predicted waiting time. These information are important and useful for numb...

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Smart tourism is a new buzzword applied to describe the increasing reliance of tourism destinations, their industries and their tourists on emerging forms of ICT that allow for massive amounts of data to be transformed into value propositions. However, it remains ill-defined as a concept, which hinders its theoretical development. The paper defines smart tourism, sheds light on current smart to...

Much research about large cities has focused on policy-level action for concerns such as infrastructure, basic amenities and education, treating the citizens as a collective of millions. We suggest an alternative, drawing on recent moves towards ‘digital era governance.’ We argue for and develop a foundation for the design and modeling of services that focus on individuals. Drawing on and exten...

This paper explores the evolution of a large multi-stakeholder partnership that has grown since 2011 to scale deep engagement with learning through technology and decrease the digital divide for thousands of underserved school children in India. Using as its basis a case study of an initiative called integrated approach to technology in education (ITE) spearheaded by Tata Trusts in India workin...