This paper reviews the literature on cultural and creative spaces, and examines its merits and shortcomings in helping to explain how culture and creativity in the city are supported. Alternative ways of conceptualising cultural and creative spaces which emphasise the importance of networks and multi-scalar relationships and noneconomic considerations will be examined.

for a long time, culture has been an influencing parameter in negotiations. growth of international trades and business competitions has increased the importance of negotiations among countries and different cultures. developing new technologies, particularly the use of artificial intelligence in electronic trading areas, has provided us with the application of intelligent agents to resolve cha...

The use of multi-sensor systems is demonstrated in this paper. Firstly, the potential of modern smart phones is used to reconstruct 3D shapes for Cultural Heritage applications. Secondly, we let collect the Microsoft Kinect sensor system dense point clouds for 3D indoor modelling. Thirdly, a multi-camera system is mounted onto a rectangular aluminium frame to collect thousands of images of two ...

The authors propose a Multi Attributes approach to meet the demand of personalized tourist tours into cultural cities. Respecting to others works present into the literature, in this paper the decisional process includes two phases and a high number of variables that don’t increase the complexity of the problem. A real application in an Italian city, Florence, is presented to demonstrate the gr...

Ethno-religious conflict in multi-cultural societies has been one of the major causes of loss of life and property in recent history. In this paper, we present and analyze a multi-agent game theoretic model for computational study of ethno-religious conflicts in multi-cultural societies. Empirical factbased research in sociology and conflict resolution literature have identified (a) ethno-relig...

Culturally adapted hypermedia design attracts increasing scientific attention. Complementing the conventional human-computer interaction studies we investigate the current state of companies’ cultural adaptation of their websites. This study evaluates a sample of 215 websites with respect to design and navigational aspects. Subsequently, we discuss the possibilities of structuring hypermedia an...

Heterogeneous Multi-Population Cultural Algorithm (HMP-CA) is a new class of Multi-Population Cultural Algorithms which incorporates a number of local Cultural Algorithms (CAs) designed to optimize different subsets of the dimensions of a given problem. In this article, various dimension decomposition techniques for HMP-CAs are proposed and compared. The concept of using a dimension decompositi...

Conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) models are used to measure efficiency score of production systems when they are considered as black boxes and their internal relationship is ignored. This paper deals with a common special case of network systems which is called multi-stage production system and can be generalized to many organizations. A multi stage production system has some stages...