Although car ownership continues to rise worldwide, temporary or more lasting phases of demotorization (reduction in the number vehicles owned) are taking place at household level. Existing studies show that probability increases certain stages life cycle, for example, associated with a reduction size income, move neighborhood better transit provision. However, rationale and temporalities decis...

cities need good, participatory and effective policies and plans for development. urban development plans such as comprehensive plan are the most important tool for implementation of policies and plans. the effective implementation of city development plan requires high level documents such as spatial planning; good macro development plans policies, efficient urban management and public partici...

A spatial information extraction system retrieves spatial entities and their relationships for geological searches and reasoning. Spatial information systems have been developed mainly for English text, e.g., through the SpaceEval competition. Some of the techniques are useful but not directly applicable to Korean text, because of linguistic differences and the lack of language resources. In th...

Spatially explicit agent-based models have a great potential to mitigate their computational costs by taking advantage of parallel and high-performance computing. However, the spatial dependency and heterogeneity of interactions pose challenges for parallel SE-ABMs to achieve good scalability. This paper applies the principle of data locality to tackle these challenges by extending a theoretica...

Spatial dependency has been broadly studied in several research areas, such as environmental criminology, economic geography, environmental sciences, and urban economics. However, it has been essentially overlooked in other subfields of economics and in the field of finance as a whole. A key element at stake is the definition of contiguity. In the context of financial markets, defining a metric...

Semi-arid rangelands show much spatial heterogeneity, with some parts producing more and better quality food for herbivores. The concepts of ‘Key Resource’ and ‘Key Resource Area’ have been developed to describe a resource that ‘provides good-quality forage’ and that ‘reduces (inter-)annual variation in forage supply’. Illius and O’Connor (1999) formalised these concepts, arguing that in key re...

In Question Answering a major challenge is the fact that similar meaning is very often expressed with different surface realizations in questions and in sentences containing the answer. In this paper we propose an enriched syntax-based representation which helps deal with this widespread variability and provides a degree of generalization. We encode uncertainty about the syntactic structure of ...

     Indirect measurement of soil electrical conductivity (EC) has become a major data source in spatial/temporal monitoring of soil salinity. However, in many cases, the weak correlation between direct and indirect measurement of EC has reduced the accuracy and performance of the predicted maps. The objective of this research was to estimate soil EC based on a general linear model via using se...

This research examines the changing relationships between economic space and geographic space over the past thirty years as a result of the global dispersion of production and the expansion of transnational corporations, a process commonly referred to as “globalization”. We study a hypothesized de-coupling of economic and geographic space by examining the growth of transnational interlocking co...

MOTIVATION How chromatin folds in three-dimensional (3D) space is closely related to transcription regulation. As powerful tools to study such 3D chromatin conformation, the recently developed Hi-C technologies enable a genome-wide measurement of pair-wise chromatin interaction. However, methods for the detection of biologically meaningful chromatin interactions, i.e. peak calling, from Hi-C da...