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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Urban computing"”.
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Innovations in Urban Computing: Uncertainty Quantification, Data Fusion, and Generative Urban Design
Today, urban computing has emerged as an interdisciplinary field connecting data science and urban planning, reflecting the growing integration of urban life with advanced computational methods. Urban computing has particularly benefited from deep learning owing to the spatiotemporal and …
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Behavior Modeling and Analytics for Urban Computing: A Synthetic Information-based Approach
The rapid increase in urbanization poses challenges in diverse areas such as energy, transportation, pandemic planning, and disaster response. Planning for urbanization is a big challenge because cities are complex systems consisting of human populations, infrastructures, and interactions and …
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Painting with data : from a computational history of urban models to an alternative urban computing
… serendipity beyond habit. Nevertheless, urban planning's relationship to policy-making has pushed their methods closer to those of science, establishing a need for empirical legitimization for decision-making. Historically, different fields have been brought into planning, importing their …
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Urban computing using call detail records : mobility pattern mining, next-location prediction and location recommendation
Urban computing fuses computer science with other fields, such as transportation, in the context of urban spaces by connecting ubiquitous sensing technologies, analytical models and visualizations to solve challenging problems in urban environment and operation systems. This paper focuses on Call …
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Spatio-temporal patterns of human mobility from geo-social networks for urban computing: Analysis, models & applications
… information about fine-grained user mobility in urban environments from increasingly geographically-aware social networking services and the rapid development of machine learning applications greatly facilitate the investigation of urban issues. In this setting, urban computing emerges intending …
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Spatiotemporal Event Forecasting and Analysis with Ubiquitous Urban Sensors
… extraction and knowledge exploration in the urban environment is gaining popularity. Ubiquitous sensors and a plethora of statistical reports provide an immense amount of heterogeneous urban data, such as traffic data, crime activity statistics, social media messages, and street imagery. The …
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Cell phone location data for travel behavior analysis
… human mobility. Especially in this era of rapid urbanization, mobile phone data presents exciting new opportunities to plan transportation infrastructure and services that meet the mobility needs and challenges associated with increasing travel demand. But to realize these benefits, methods must …
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Modeling Urban Venue Dynamics through Spatio-Temporal Metrics and Complex Networks
… to model the world at an unprecedented scale. Urban environments, in particular, have benefited from new data sources that provide granular representations of activities across space and time. As cities experienced a rise in urbanization, they also faced challenges in managing vehicle levels, …
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C-IMAGE : city cognitive mapping through geo-tagged photos
… His method has been a keystone in guiding both urban design and urban study for decades. However, enabled by the proliferation of crowd sourcing technology, this thesis tries another angle to detect, measure, and analyze people's perceptions through geo-tagged photos. Using Python scripting …
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Knowledge Discovery for Sustainable Urban Mobility
Due to the rapid growth of urban areas, sustainable urbanization is an inevitable task for city planners to address major challenges in resource management across different sectors. Sustainable approaches of energy production, distribution, and consumption must take the place of traditional methods …
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Domain-based Frameworks and Embeddings for Dynamics over Networks
… applications in many areas like social networks, urban computing, and so on.
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Strategic Design of Smart Bike-Sharing Systems for Smart Cities
… challenging problems of modern life in many urban areas. This growing problem leads to negative environmental impacts, wasted fuel, lost productivity, and increased travel time. In big cities, trains and buses bring riders to transit stations near shopping and employment centers, but riders …
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Characterization and Assessment of Transportation Diversity: Impacts on Mobility and Resilience Planning in Urban Communities
… diversity mostly experienced less disturbance in their mobility patterns after Sandy and the recovery of their mobility patterns was faster. The results confirm that transportation diversity affects the resilience of individual post-disaster mobility. The approach used in this study is …
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A Methodology for Finding Uniform Regions in Spatial Data and its Application to Analyzing the Composition of Cities
… evolution due to numerous factors, such as fast urbanization and new ways of communication and transportation. However, the evolution of the composition of a city is difficult to follow and analyze. Since understanding the evolution of cities is the key to intelligent urbanization, there is a …
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Measuring and Enhancing the Resilience of Interdependent Power Systems, Emergency Services, and Social Communities
Several calamities occur throughout the world each year, resulting in varying losses. Disasters wreak havoc on infrastructures and impair operation. They result in human deaths and injuries and stress people's mental and emotional states. These negative impacts of natural disasters induce …