With the development of new generation technology and the low-carbon economy, the smart low-carbon city has become one of the academic hotspots. Many studies on it have begun; however, the dynamic mechanism is rarely involved. Therefore, this paper uses the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method to creatively take a quantitative study on a Chinese smar...

This paper describes a structure and a user interface of the Internet based 3D presentation of existing historical part of city Prague. The application offers a smooth tour to selected regions of the real city, utilizing number of standard and modern technologies including VRML, Java, and PHP. The architecture of the whole virtual model is presented together with several advanced and specific f...

Three-dimensional (3D), city models have been applied in a variety of fields. One of the main problems in 3D city model utilization, however, is the large volume of data. In this paper, a method is proposed to generalize the 3D building objects in 3D city models at different levels of detail, and to combine multiple Levels of Detail (LODs) for a progressive distribution and visualization of the...

The paper introduces a novel detection and tracking system that provides both frame-view and world-coordinate human location information, based on video from multiple synchronized and calibrated cameras with overlapping fields of view. The system is developed and evaluated for the specific scenario of a seminar lecturer presenting in front of an audience inside a “smart room”, its aim being to ...

Introduction Climate change and environmental concerns are tremendously influencing and shaping the future of the power industry. As a positive consequence, there has been a remarkable, rapid increase in the past several years in the megawatts produced by renewable energy resources across the globe, and this trend will continue for the next decades. These renewable energy resources, including w...

The problem of determining which permutations can be sorted using certain switchyard networks is a venerable problem in computer science dating back to Knuth in 1968. In this work, we are interested in permutations which are sortable on a double-ended queue (called a deque), or on two parallel stacks. In 1982, Rosenstiehl and Tarjan presented an O (n) algorithm for testing whether a given permu...

The smart grid recently has been a vital research field among the global researchers and academia due to its significant transformation of the traditional, original and aging power grid networks. This paper reviews the state of the potentials of a smart distribution grid and highlights relevant areas of research problems that are related to the optimal sizing, unit commitment, and economic disp...

The control architecture for well functioning open electricity market of smart grids is introduced. The novel concept is that it establishes near real-time market operators for smart grids. In the proposed market model, traders, producers, brokers and end-users are incorporated. It develops near realtime active and reactive power dispatch policies based on optimal operation of players. In reali...