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City Manager Compensation and Performance : An Artificial Intelligence Approach

This chapter proposes a nonlinear artificial Higher Order Neural Network (HONN) model to study the relation between manager compensation and performance in the governmental sector. Using a HONN simulator, this study analyzes city manager compensation as a function of local government performance, and compares the results with those from a linear regression model. This chapter shows that the non...

Manager - Coaching the Rookie Manager

In last January’s Manager column, “Fear of Trying: The Plight of the Rookie Project Manager,” Roger Pressman asked a question critical to the future of our profession: “So, how do we grow a good project manager? What do we teach the rookie who has just been appointed to lead her first software project?” Instead of answering this question directly, Pressman focused his article on four key skills...

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Imaging City Activities: a City Wide Simulation System of Crowd Movement

Sensing is going mobile and people-centric in a network enabled society. Urban activities are recognized from the footprint of the usages of mobile phone. This research introduces how mobile devices can be employed as a new urban sensor, location-aware and human in the loop system that enabled city wide information collection and analysis. Mobile phones become a fabric of the city and permit th...

Population movement and city-suburb redistribution: an analytic framework.

This paper introduces an analytic framework that can be used to assess the relationships between individual movement differentials and place characteristics, on the one hand, and aggregate mobility levels and city-suburb population change (in size or composition), on the other. Application of this framework using census data for individual metropolitan areas allows the analyst to decompose popu...