In this paper, we describe a Voice Portal designed to provide municipal information by phone. It includes the set of modules required to automatically recognize users’ utterances, understand their meaning, decide the following response and generate a speech response. The different functionalities include to consult information about the City Council, access city information, carry out several s...

1. introduction by the passage of the industrial revolution and entrance to the post-industrial era, the change and variety in the functions of capitalistic powers, ict revolution, and the speeding up of globalization after the 1960s have brought about renewal of the operational, spatial, and managerial structures of cities. in line with the mentioned changes, the structural changes resulted fr...

The purpose of this study is to explore infrastructures for establishment of electronic municipality in metropolis city of Tabriz. Thisis a descriptive survey and it is an applied one in terms of goal .Total sample consisted of total number of 120 employees in Statistics and Information Technology Department of municipality as well as those working in related sections to information technolog...

This study aims to redefine spaces of learning to places of learning through the direct engagement of local communities as a way to examine and learn from real world issues in the city. This paper exemplifies Smart City Learning, where the key goal is to promote the generation and exchange of urban design ideas for the future development of South Bank, in Brisbane, Australia, informing the crea...

Smart city provides various value-added services by collecting largescale data from houses and infrastructures within a city. However, it takes a long time and man-hour and needs knowledge about big data processing for individual applications to use and process the large-scale raw data directly. To reduce the response time, we use the concept of materialized view of database, and materialized v...

Since the Persistent Scatterer Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometry (PSI) technology allows the detection of ground subsidence with millimeter accuracy, it is becoming one of the most powerful and economical means for health diagnosis of major transportation infrastructures. However, structures of different types may suffer from various levels of localized subsidence due to the differe...

Background: About 2/3 of the Europeans reside in cities. Thus, we must expand our knowledge on how city characteristics affect health and well-being. Perceptions about cities' resources and functioning might be related with health, as they capture subjective experiences of the residents. We characterized the health status of 74 European cities, using all-cause mortality as indicator, and invest...

We compare the interactive experiences of two public infrastructures — situated displays and a municipal wireless network — using a conceptual framework of place, experience and embodiment. Using the framework as a point of reference, we can begin to address some inherent design issues in these technologies. Consequently, we argue that urban technologies which take into account their environmen...

We present here a demo of a multi-agent-system-based GIS application to model human house choosing behaviour. More accurately, this application foresees future energy consumption in order to issue spatial load forecasts and help utilities to resize and adapt electrical infrastructures to cope with committed loads in the middle and long term. We have tested our application with real data of an S...

Movement of people in a city forms a complex system, which includes street networks, traffic infrastructures (e.g. traffic lights, signs) as well as the actions of intelligent pedestrians and vehicles. Since increasing traffic has become a common problem all over the world recently, a peer-to-peer shared ride trip planning system is designed as a solution. With transportation client and host ag...