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Leveraging deep reinforcement learning and healthcare devices for active travelling in smart cities (2024)
Journal Article

Smart cities are increasingly challenged by population growth and the environmental emissions of urban transportation systems, necessitating sustainable urban planning to improve public health, environmental quality, and overall urban livability. A n... Read More about Leveraging deep reinforcement learning and healthcare devices for active travelling in smart cities.

Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe (2023)
Journal Article

The urban community faces a significant obstacle in effectively utilising Earth Observation (EO) intelligence, particularly the Copernicus EO program of the European Union, to address the multifaceted aspects of urban sustainability and bolster urban... Read More about Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe.

Deep learning-based multi-target regression for traffic-related air pollution forecasting (2023)
Journal Article

Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) remains one of the main contributors to urban pollution and its impact on climate change cannot be overemphasised. Experts in developed countries strive to make optimal use of traffic and air qua... Read More about Deep learning-based multi-target regression for traffic-related air pollution forecasting.

SIGNED: Smart cIty diGital twiN vErifiable data framework (2023)
Journal Article

Smart city digital twins can provide useful insights by making effective use of multidisciplinary urban data from diverse sources. Whilst these insights provide new information that helps cities in decision making, verifying the authenticity, integri... Read More about SIGNED: Smart cIty diGital twiN vErifiable data framework.

A review of learning theories and models underpinning technology-enhanced learning artefacts (2020)
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Purpose – Various technology-enhanced learning software and tools exist where technology becomes the main driver for these developments at the expense of pedagogy. The literature reveals the missing balance between technology and pedagogy in the cont... Read More about A review of learning theories and models underpinning technology-enhanced learning artefacts.

NeuroProv: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analyses (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Visualisation underpins the understanding of scientific data both through exploration and explanation of analysed data. Provenance strengthens the understanding of data by showing the process of how a result has been achieved. Wit... Read More about NeuroProv: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analyses.

Opportunistic protocol based on social probability and resources efficiency for the intelligent and connected transportation system (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. In recent years, Intelligent and Connected Transportation Systems (ICTS) have become a practical and valuable alternative for wide variety of novel applications in road traffic safety. It can be utilized to guarantee road safety... Read More about Opportunistic protocol based on social probability and resources efficiency for the intelligent and connected transportation system.

An adaptable system to support provenance management for the public policy-making process in smart cities (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 by the authors. Government policies aim to address public issues and problems and therefore play a pivotal role in people’s lives. The creation of public policies, however, is complex given the perspective of large and diverse stakeholders’ in... Read More about An adaptable system to support provenance management for the public policy-making process in smart cities.

Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study (2017)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper presents some results from an EU FP7 RTD project urbanAPI, in which three ICT applications target different aspects of participatory urban governance. The 3D Scenario Creator allows urban plan... Read More about Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study.

From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products (2017)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Intelligence delivered by earth observation (EO) satellites performs a vital role in supporting ICT enabled urban governance, and the creation of decision making tools delivering integrated urban plannin... Read More about From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products.

eLEM: A novel e-Learner Experience Model (2017)
Journal Article

Many e-learning artefacts have been developed and promoted based on their ability to enhance learning and e-learner experience. However, there is a lack of precise definition of what the e-learner experience implies and associated models to inform th... Read More about eLEM: A novel e-Learner Experience Model.

Towards a secure service provisioning framework in a Smart city environment (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Over the past few years the concept of Smart cities has emerged to transform urban areas into connected and well informed spaces. Services that make smart cities “smart” are curated by using data streams of smart cities i.e., inh... Read More about Towards a secure service provisioning framework in a Smart city environment.

Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 by the authors. Citizen participation for social innovation and co-creating urban regeneration proposals can be greatly facilitated by innovative IT systems. Such systems can use Open Government Data, visualise urban proposals in 3D models and... Read More about Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study.

Towards a generalised e-learning business process model (2017)
Journal Article

Modelling learning scenarios is central for e-learning domain. This has been manifested in the proliferation of the different Educational Modelling Languages, as well as in developed e-learning models. However, the existing modelled scenarios are def... Read More about Towards a generalised e-learning business process model.

Dynamic, interactive and visual analysis of population distribution and mobility dynamics in an urban environment using the mobility explorer framework (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 by the authors. This paper investigates the extent to which a mobile data source can be utilised to generate new information intelligence for decision-making in smart city planning processes. In this regard, the Mobility Explorer framework is... Read More about Dynamic, interactive and visual analysis of population distribution and mobility dynamics in an urban environment using the mobility explorer framework.

Towards cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Khan et al.; licensee Springer. A large amount of land-use, environment, socio-economic, energy and transport data is generated in cities. An integrated perspective of managing and analysing such big data can answer a number of science, polic... Read More about Towards cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities.

A framework for cloud-based context-aware information services for citizens in smart cities (2014)
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© 2014 Khan et al.; licensee Springer. Background: In the context of smart cities, public participation and citizen science are key ingredients for informed and intelligent planning decisions and policy-making. However, citizens face a practical chal... Read More about A framework for cloud-based context-aware information services for citizens in smart cities.

ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project (2014)
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Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present the effectiveness of participatory information and communication technology (ICT) tools for urban planning, in particular, supporting bottom-up decision-making in urban management and governance. Design/me... Read More about ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project.

Applying the CoReS requirements development method for building IT tools for urban management systems: The UrbanAPI project (2013)
Journal Article

Gathering and managing requirements from stakeholders is an essential task for the successful development of IT tools for any application domain. However, specifying stakeholders’ requirements for a collaborative research and development project in t... Read More about Applying the CoReS requirements development method for building IT tools for urban management systems: The UrbanAPI project.

Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project (2013)
Journal Article

In common with all projects, evaluating an Information Technology (IT) based research and development project is necessary in order to discover whether or not the outcomes of the project are successful. However, evaluating large-scale collaborative p... Read More about Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project.