In recent years, the evolution of urban environments, jointly with the progress of the Information and Communication sector, have enabled the rapid adoption of new solutions that contribute to the growth in popularity of Smart Cities. Currently, the majority of the world population lives in cities encouraging different stakeholders within these innovative ecosystems to seek new solutions guaran...

Smart cities represent a rich dynamic environment where multiple wireless mobile devices interconnect to each other to communicate and share their data. The growing demand and the diverse traffic patterns of these smart devices place an increasing strain on the wireless networks. Routing data among wireless routers becomes a challenging issue as traditional routing algorithms, which are based o...

Due to tremendous increase in population, many people living in villages are now migrating to the cities. It is predicted that very soon most of the human civilization will be concentrated in the cities. This increased population will consume more energy and need more space to live. Finally, they will leave behind a more prominent environmental footprint as the cities grow to metropolises. This...

We describe a rational expectations model in which speculative bubbles in house prices can emerge. Within this model both speculators and their lenders use interestonly mortgages (IOs) rather than traditional mortgages when there is a bubble. Absent a bubble, there is no tendency for IOs to be used. These insights are used to assess the extent to which house prices in US cities were driven by s...

This paper discusses the potential of Greece to accommodate more training courses that could be funded by Erasmus+. Its limitation is it suggests mostly on topics preserving local culture and developing smart city technologies. Scarcity in Erasmus+ hosting cities highlights need for a creative approach subject. Traditional villages smart-cities are located center creation new courses. This, tur...

Smart Grid is a term that encompasses the economic benefits of an intelligent and advanced power grid to reach changing responsibilities related directly sustainability energy efficiency. Considering shortfall alternative fuels in developed regions, new smart grids, order have access their environmental hazard, show average non-renewable renewable sources can be integrated reduce disasters impr...

Abstract: This paper aims to present a new and innovative way to consider 3D urban database through the generation of automatic textured triangular irregular network over cities from oblique imageries. The novelty of this approach lies in the fast and automated algorithms capable of extracting dense 3D volume from airborne imageries compared to traditional methods where such 3D models are usual...

More than half of today's world population lives in cities and that fraction is steadily growing. Models that accurately capture all segments of the population are necessary in order to design effective policies and new technologies to ensure efficient and stable operations of cities. The current sociology literature has a rich foundation in characterizing the demographics of static population ...

Chinese resource-exhausted cities face more severe environmental pollution problems than other cities. In addressing these problems, the way local officials (usually senior party and government leaders) operate is very important, as their focus on political achievements may complicate how they manage environmental pollution in these cities. On the one hand, the traditional Gross Domestic Produc...