This contribution wishes to contribute to the present controversies and discussions about smart cities by sketching a framework for the affective smart city.

over the last two decades there have been numerous reports from different seismically active regions of the world that thermal infrared (tir) anomalies can be identified around the epicentral areas before major earthquakes [e.g. (tronin et al., 2002)]. the tir anomalies reportedly appear as early as 14 to 7 days before the seismic events and affect areas as large as 1000s to 100,000s km2 in siz...

The European Parliament has continuously supported these goals. It is a common understanding that this change will require a transition from monopolised hierarchically controlled Power networks to customer oriented Smart Grids operating in deregulated energy markets. However, this poses several regulatory, organizational and technical challenges to be identified and addressed. To that end sever...

It is shown that the quantization of a superparticle propagating in an N = 1, D = 4 superspace extended with tensorial coordinates results in an infinite tower of massless spin states satisfying the Vasiliev unfolded equations for higher spin fields in flat and AdS4 N = 1 superspace. The tensorial extension of the AdS4 superspace is proved to be a supergroup manifold OSp (1|4). The model is man...

The delivery of Public Services to citizens is becoming a challenging task, as urban populations increase and the related networks are becoming more complex and entangled. In this article, we present a platform designed for the optimal coordination of a city's public agencies and emergency response teams. Such coordination is particularly relevant in emergency situations when the infrastructure...