This paper presents the possibilities of minimizing the energy and water demand in urban areas by introducing technical changes, such as more efficient technology and local supply systems. In order to examine the effects of solutions, Musashino city, Olleof the cities in Tokyo, Japan, is used as a cage study. Urban cities, in which most of human societies exist, have developed drastically durin...

In recent years, error mining approaches have been proposed to identify the most likely sources of errors in symbolic parsers and generators. However the techniques used generate a flat list of suspicious forms ranked by decreasing order of suspicion. We introduce a novel algorithm that structures the output of error mining into a tree (called, suspicion tree) highlighting the relationships bet...

This article is based on a study of the morphological changes of Dhaka City, the capital of Bangladesh. The main objective of the research is to study the transformation of urban morphology in Dhaka City from 1947 to 2007. Three sample wards (18, 19 and 72) of Dhaka City Corporation are strategically selected as the study areas. Ward 72 has an indigenous type of organic settlement, whereas ward...

The compact, geometrically integrated city can and should replace suburban sprawl as the dominant development pattern in the future. This approach to urban planning and design is well established among proponents of the New Urbanist and Smart Growth movements. However, the more radical scenario I propose in this paper is that the compact city should also replace the high-rise, ultra-high-densit...

The current global trends lead to fulfilment of specified environmental and economic objectives in all sectors of national economies. Buildings form a basic pillar of smart cities concept where all life processes and nerve centres of social life are read, in order to radically improve quality of life, opportunity, prosperity, social and economic development, thanks to the use of the new technol...

The problem of finding parking spaces in big urban areas is one of the unsolved challenges of Smart Cities causing traffic congestion, increased carbon emission and time wasting. Network and sensor technologies available today allow to foresee Smart Cities equipped with applications able to provide real-time information on parking space availability, which can be used to assist motorists in loo...

The present study aims to develop a new hybrid Fuzzy Simulink model to assess the groundwater quality levels in Tiruchirappalli city, South India. Water quality management is an important issue in the modern times. The data collected for Tiruchirappalli city have been utilized to develop the approach. This is illustrated with seventy nine groundwater samples collected from Tiruchirappalli city ...

1 Dept. of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine, Matsumoto-city, Nagano 390-8621, Japan, 2 Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto-city, Nagano 390-8621, Japan. 3 The Cancer System Laboratory, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-9804 Japan. 4 Dept. of Obs...

Relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between travel time variances and city size. We utilize 2009 Nationwide Highway Travel Survey data and test the relationship between metropolitan area nonwork (home-based shopping and social/recreational) trip time means as well as variances with metropolitan area size. We include tests for metropolitan areas as a whole and for resid...

Persistent ISR (PISR) systems are a potential game-changer for asymmetric warfare. Realizing this potential requires delivering actionable information when and where it is needed, while shielding decision-makers from information overload. This paper describes a methodology and prototype system for measuring the military value of Persistent ISR deployments and allocating ISR assets to maximize m...