We propose a novel approach to querying theWeb with a system named AKIRA (Agentive Knowledge-based Information Retrieval Architecture) which combines advanced technologies from Information Retrieval and Extraction together with Database techniques. The former enable the system to access the explicit as well as the implicit structure of Web documents and organize them into a hierarchy of concept...

Network technologies offer the opportunity to reshape connections among economic players by increasing the power of customers, makers and knowledge-intensive business firms in innovation processes and value-creation dynamics. Through a theoretical description of the convergence of manufacturing and service offerings, this paper discusses the various conceptions of smart networks and proposes an...

Urban crime has increasingly become a major issue for Chinese cities. Using crime data collected at police precincts in 2008, the main aim of this research is to examine the spatial distribution of property crime which accounted for almost 82% of all crimes in the city of Changchun, and analyze the relationship between the spatial patterns of property crime and neighborhood characteristics. Sta...

Today information and knowledge base technologies have changed many features of our daily lives, but still the information revolution is more about the computers rather than people. We are at the beginning of a new era of computing and information paradigms which can change our lives dramatically (Mattern,2001). While the personal computers, Internet and World Wide Web have already changed many...

This poster and accompanying demo shows how Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies are incorporated into an Augmented Reality platform in the SmartReality project and form the basis for enhanced Augmented Reality mobile applications in which information and content in the user’s surroundings can be presented in a more meaningful and useful manner. We describe how things of interest are descr...

Intelligent recognition of traffic police command gestures increases authenticity and interactivity in virtual urban scenes. To actualize real-time traffic gesture recognition, a novel spatiotemporal convolution neural network (ST-CNN) model is presented. We utilized Kinect 2.0 to construct a traffic police command gesture skeleton (TPCGS) dataset collected from 10 volunteers. Subsequently, con...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has been criticized for granting too much power to copyright holders, offering them new technological controls that may harm the public interest. But, by considering this exclusively as a copyright issue, we overlook how the DMCA anticipates a technological and commercial infrastructure for regulating not only copying, but every facet of the purchase and use...

Introduction The spatial representations of our world, both natural and built, are being increasingly described using 3D geospatial models. The creation of accurate, photorealistic 3D city models that can be used in real-world applications still remains a challenging problem in spatial information science. Three-dimensional modelling is required in applications as diverse as urban planning, dis...

The Wireless Smart City (WSC), an emerging concept in Smart Grid and Internet of Things, has attracted an increasing number of customers and developers based with its promise of low cost implementation and flexibility. At the same time, the challenges faced with in the field applications hinder the progress of WSC from researches into commercial production. A model based application level auxil...

World War I irrevocably changed the face of the world, including Croatia and its capital Zagreb. While between 1880 and 1910 Zagreb became a modern European city, World War I (1914-1918) was marked by new municipal regulations that overturned the everyday life of the city. Social conditions reached catastrophic proportions, especially in the later years of the war. Soldiers and refugees swarmed...