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This paper explores the application of crowdsourcing to cities and regions – what I call “geocentric crowdsourcing.” My basic interest is in how crowdsourcing can be used to enable cities and regions to more effectively address issues ranging from infrastructure to governance. I have two entwined aims in this position paper. One is to discuss the notion of smarter cities, and the ways in which ...

Lisa A. Taylor,a,b,c Zarreen Amin,a Emily B. Maier,a Kevin J. Byrne,a and Nathan I. Morehousea aDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 4249 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA, bDepartment of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, 1881 Natural Area Dr., Gainesville, FL 32611, USA, and cFlorida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 3215 Hull Rd., Ga...

We examine the publications of authors affiliated with an economics research institution in Canada in (i) the Top-10 journals in economics according to journals’ impact factors, and (ii) the Canadian Journal of Economics. We consider all publications in the even years from 1980 to 2000. Canadian economists contributed about 5% of publications in the Top-10 journals and about 55% of publications...

There is a demand for new ways to understand the relation between student and group behaviour, and their impact on education performance. For that, we are researching, developing, and testing technologies to instrument classrooms, collect human signal data, and derive meaning that leads us to understand their relation with the education performance. We call this setup as “the Smarter Classroom”...

Urban areas consume up to 80 percent of the world's total energy production and are growing in size and complexity. At present, urban building energy consumption is largely considered solely in terms of individual building types, neglecting the effects of residents’ location-based activities that influence patterns in energy supply and demand. Here, we examine the spatial fluctuations of these ...

Internet of Things (IoT) approach is empowering smart city creativities all over the world. There is no specific tool or criteria for the evaluation of the services offered by the smart city. In this paper, a new Multilayer Fuzzy Inference System (MFIS) is proposed for the assessment of the Planet Factors of smart city (PFSC). The PFSC system is categorized into two levels. The proposed MFIS ba...

Abstract. We report an analytical expression for the locations of Lindblad resonances induced by a perturbing protoplanet, including the effect of disk gravity. Inner, outer and differential torques are found to be enhanced compared to situations where a keplerian velocity field for the dynamics of both the disk and the planet is assumed. Inward migration is strongly accelerated when the disk g...

R esidential investment is one of the most volatile components of GDP. Coming out of a recession, it is not uncommon for residential investment to jump by more than 20 percent in a year. Going into a recession, it may fall by a similar fraction. Thus, while residential investment accounts for just 4 percent of GDP, it can have a disproportionate influence at critical junctures. Fluctuations in ...