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SpaceSemantics: an architecture for modeling environments
The notion of modeling location is fundamental to location awareness in ubiquitous computing environments. The investigation of models and the integration with the myriad of location sensing technologies makes for a challenging discipline. Despite notable development of location models, we believe that many challenges remain unresolved. Complexity and scalability, diverse environments coupled with various sensors and managing the privacy and security of sensitive information are open issues. In this paper we discuss our previous experience combining location sensing with mobile agents and how the lessons learnt have lead to the conception of SpaceSemantics, an open architecture for modeling environments
Extending Yioop! With Geographical Location Local Search
It is often useful when doing an internet search to get results based on our current location. For example, we might want such results when we search on restaurants, car service center, or hospitals. Current open source search engines like those based on Nutch do not provide this facility. Commercial engines like Google and Yahoo! provide this facility so it would be useful to incorporate it in an open source alternative. The goal of this project is to include location aware search in Yioop!(Pollett, 2012) by using geographical data from OpenStreetMap(“Open Street map wiki”, 2012) and hostip.info (“DMOZ”, n.d.) database to geolocate IP addresses
Efficiency of Public Goods Provision in Space
This article incorporates a political decision process into an urban land use model to predict the likely location of a public good. It fills an important gap in the literature by modeling the endogenous location of open space. The article compares open space decisions made under a majority-rules voting scheme with welfare-improving criterion and finds households tied to a location in space compete against each other for public goods located nearer them. Significant differences emerge between the two decision criteria, indicating that requiring referenda for open space decisions is likely to lead to inefficient outcomes. Specifically, many open space votes are likely to fail that would lead to welfare improvements, and any open space decisions that do pass will require amenities larger than needed to achieve the social optimum. The more dispersed and large the population, the larger is the gap between the socially efficient level and the level needed for a public referendum to pass.organizational slack, antecedents, dispositional requirements, resources
Implementing a map based simulator for the location API for J2ME
The Java Location API for J2METM integrates generic positioning and orientation data with
persistent storage of landmark objects. It can be used to develop location based service
applications for small mobile devices, and these applications can be tested using simulation
environments. Currently the only simulation tools in the public domain are proprietary
mobile device simulators that are driven by GPS data log files, but it is sometimes useful to
be able to test location based services using interactive map-based tools. In addition, we
may need to experiment with extensions and changes to the standard API to support
additional services, requiring an open source environment. In this paper we describe the
implementation of an open source map-based simulation tool compatible with other
commonly used development and deployment tools
Lagrangian Flow Network approach to an open flow model
Concepts and tools from network theory, the so-called Lagrangian Flow Network
framework, have been successfully used to obtain a coarse-grained description
of transport by closed fluid flows. Here we explore the application of this
methodology to open chaotic flows, and check it with numerical results for a
model open flow, namely a jet with a localized wave perturbation. We find that
network nodes with high values of out-degree and of finite-time entropy in the
forward-in-time direction identify the location of the chaotic saddle and its
stable manifold, whereas nodes with high in-degree and backwards finite-time
entropy highlight the location of the saddle and its unstable manifold. The
cyclic clustering coefficient, associated to the presence of periodic orbits,
takes non-vanishing values at the location of the saddle itself.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures. To appear in European Physical Journal Special
Topics, Topical Issue on "Recent Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex
Structures: Fundamentals and Applications
Rational expectations in urban economics
Canonical analysis of the classical general equilibrium model demonstrates the existence of an open and dense subset of standard economies that possess fully-revealing rational expectations equilibria. This paper shows that the analogous result is not true in urban economies. An open subset of economies where none of the rational expectations equilibria fully reveal private information is found. There are two important pieces. First, there can be information about a location known by a consumer who does not live in that location in equilibrium, and thus the equilibrium rent does not reflect this information. Second, if a consumer’s utility depends only on information about their (endogenous) location of residence, perturbations of utility naturally do not incorporate information about other locations conditional on their location of residence. Existence of a rational expectations equilibrium is proved. Space can prevent housing prices from transmitting information from informed to uninformed households, resulting in an inefficient outcome.Urban Economics; General Equilibrium; Private Information; Rational Expectations
Rational expectations in urban economics
Canonical analysis of the classical general equilibrium model demonstrates the existence of an open and dense subset of standard economies that possess fully-revealing rational expectations equilibria. This paper shows that the analogous result is not true in urban economies under reasonable modifications for this field. An open subset of economies where none of the modified rational expectations equilibria fully reveals private information is found. There are two important pieces. First, there can be information about a location known by a consumer who does not live in that location in equilibrium, and thus the equilibrium rent does not reflect this information. Second, if a consumer's utility depends only on information about their (endogenous) location of residence, perturbations of utility naturally do not incorporate information about other locations conditional on the consumer's location of residence. Existence of equilibrium is proved. Space can prevent housing prices from transmitting information from informed to uninformed households, resulting in an inefficient outcome.Urban Economics; General Equilibrium; Private Information; Rational Expectations
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