The European Nations foresee a growing population and a trending urbanization that pose significant environmental and social concerns. To manage these concerns municipal decision makers’ attempt to leverage the smart city concept with collaboration between external actors as a means to maintain the prepossessed living standard in the city. By developing a framework based on existing literature ...

Bottom-up segmentation methods merge similar neighboring regions according to a decision rule and a merging order. In this paper, we propose a contribution for each of these two points. Firstly, under statistical hypothesis of similarity, we provide an improved decision rule for region merging based on significance tests and the recent statistical inequality of McDiarmid. Secondly, we propose a...

The vision and thought of Gandhi has been drawing the attention philosophers entire world not only because its inherent values but he himself was a preacher, practicenor live example simplicity. always critique modern civilization which is sine-quo-none with western civilization. Materialism consumerism today are gifts industrialization capitalism. pace have given birth to many associated probl...