Abstract Although randomisation has long been seen as crucial to reaching reliable insights from data, it is still falling victim some peculiar – and troublesome misconceptions. By Arthur H. Owora, John Dawson, Gary Gadbury, Luis M. Mestre, Greg Pavela, Tapan Mehta, Colby J. Vorland, Pengcheng Xun David B. Allison

This paper introduces a new intelligent method to generate vector maps from printed maps to provide a basis for GPS navigation. This new approach has been applied in our GIS-DMG (Digital Map Generation) software, which has four key steps: Map Layers Extraction, Road Network Digitalization, Map Geo-locating and Map Automatic Geo-adjusting, different from typical procedures. These four steps play...

Road extraction from satellite imagery has become a heated research subjects in recent years. It is especially used in the city planning, cartography and to update previously detected roads in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environment.In this study automated road extraction technique is applied to four different satellite images (SPOT, IKONOS, QUICKBIRD, ASTER) with different resolutions...

The city is the base and the space for people to come together. The space in which human interaction and social affairs occur and is identified in terms of epistemic and ontological support. So that we can talk about beautiful city, industrial city, western city and Islamic city. This paper uses the method of thematic analysis to explain the Islamic city by analyzing the relevant sources ...

The LiveCity Project effort intends to create a city-based “Living Lab” and associated ecosystem to pilot live interactive high-definition video-tovideo (v2v) on ultrafast wireless and wireline Internet infrastructure for the support of appropriate public service use cases among a number of city user communities initially in four major European cities. The essential aim is to empower the citize...

Central city infrastructure development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in areas such as sewerage, water works, street lighting, and street pavement, was an important cause of suburban municipal autonomy by the time of the Great Depression. Suburban autonomy was in turn an important factor in the racial and economic transformations that were visible in central cities by the 1950s. Th...