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Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities
A new book by Nicos Komninos, forthcoming from Routledge in the Advances in Regional Science, Economics, and Policy series.
Evolving Intelligent Environments: Smart Ecosystems and Transformative Innovations in the 21st Century provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the convergence among smart ecosystems, connected intelligence, and transformative innovations, considered the foundations of intelligent environments. Continue reading
What is inside a GPT model? I asked GPT-4 a few questions about its memory and algorithm. Here is the discussion.
Q1: Can we describe the ChatGPT algorithm as deep learning, backpropagation, attention mechanism based algorithm? Continue reading
A new paper “Three Decades of Research on Smart Cities‘ by Ayyoob Sharifi, Zaheer Allam, Bakhtiar Feizizadeh, and Hessam Ghamari, published in Sustainability 2021, 13, 7140, gives an overview of the structure and trends in the literature on smart cities. It is a bibliometric analysis and science mapping using VOSviewer and CiteSpace to identify the thematic focus of over 5000 articles indexed in the Web of Science. Continue reading
The whitepaper “Understanding Resiliency: What It Means to be a Resilient City and Tools to Support’ provides an analysis on the necessity for resiliency strategies and the challenges of implementing resiliency. Additionally it presents existent digital tools to support cities and territories to build more resilient, sustainable and safe places to live. Continue reading
This study offers a systematic literature review on the use of soft computing techniques for abuse detection in the complex cyber’“physical’“social big data systems in cognitive smart cities. The objective of the authors is to define and identify the diverse concept of abuse and systematize techniques for automatic abuse detection on social media and real-time abuse detection using IoT. Continue reading
The 2021 annual conference of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development will take place this week, from Wednesday 14th of July until Friday 16th of July 2021 on a virtual form. The theme of the 2021 conference is “Sensing and Shaping the City”. Continue reading
The annual conference of Boston Area Research Initiative is starting today, April 30th, under the theme “Building Back Smarter’. The event is fully online and is marking the institute’ s 10th anniversary. Continue reading
