In this paper, agent-based models of emergent ancient urban centers are constructed through the use of techniques from computational intelligence, agent-based modeling, complex systems, data-mining, and existing archaeological data from the prehistoric urban center, Monte Albán. The models are used to determine the extent to which the structure of ancient cities relates to the structural model ...

We present our research on acquiring domain knowledge related to urban vehicular tra c by means of interaction with experts. Such knowledge is needed in knowledge discovery and data mining for approximation of complex vague concepts from the road tra c. According to perception based computing paradigm, this can be done by construction of hierarchical classi ers supported with expert knowledge. ...

The traffic networks reflect the pulse and structure of a city and shows some dynamic characteristic. Previous research in mining structure from networks mostly focus on static networks and fail to exploit the temporal patterns. In this paper, we aim to solve the problem of discovering the urban spatio-temporal structure from time-evolving traffic networks. We model the time-evolving traffic ne...

In this paper we describe the use of sensor grids within Discovery Net to construct a distributed system for urban air pollution monitoring and control. We present the background to urban air pollution monitoring and describe the high throughput sensors developed within this project to address the problem. We differentiate between the concepts of sensor networks and sensor grids and discuss the...

Diesel fuel and the products of its combustion represent one of the toxins most commonly encountered by people living in both urban and rural areas of the world. As nations become more heavily populated, there will be increasing reliance on diesel fuel to power mass transportation and commercial vehicles, as well as heavy machinery involved in construction, farming, and mining. The majority of ...

Nowadays, the tourism industry accounts for approximately 10% of the global GDP, while it only contributes 3% of the economy in Iran. Since the pressure of US sanctions increases day after day on the Iranian economy, the necessity of paying attention to this industry as a source of foreign currency is felt more than ever. The purpose of this research is to analyze the reviews of users of social...

In the 1960s Indianapolis, Indiana’s near-Westside, was transformed by urban renewal projects that carved space for the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus out of a predominantly African-American neighborhood. Within two decades that longstanding community was totally displaced, and today the former neighborhood covering 300 acres is completely effaced and the commu...

This paper is meant as a brief description of the Romanian syntax within the dependency framework, more specifically within the Universal Dependency (UD) framework, and is the result of a volunteer activity of mapping two independently created Romanian dependency treebanks to the UD specifications. This mapping process is not trivial, as concessions have to be made and solutions need to be foun...

The purpose of this study is to present the history of civil hospitals present in Pula through the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. All circumstances which are related to their founding and development have been analysed, together with a number of complex events which had influenced them through several decades. Careful archival and bibliographic research has made it possible to pre...