A multi-source dataset of urban life in the city of Milan and the Province of Trentino

The study of socio-technical systems has been revolutionized by the unprecedented amount of digital records that are constantly being produced by human activities such as accessing Internet services, using mobile devices, and consuming energy and knowledge. In this paper, we describe the richest open multi-source dataset ever released on two geographical areas. The dataset is composed of telecommunications, weather, news, social networks and electricity data from the city of Milan and the Province of Trentino. The unique multi-source composition of the dataset makes it an ideal testbed for methodologies and approaches aimed at tackling a wide range of problems including energy consumption, mobility planning, tourist and migrant flows, urban structures and interactions, event detection, urban well-being and many others

On validation of XML streams using finite state machines

We study validation of streamed XML documents by means of finite state machines. Previous work has shown that validation is in principle possible by finite state automata, but the construction was prohibitively expensive, giving an exponential-size nondeterministic automaton. Instead, we want to find deterministic automata for validating streamed documents: for them, the complexity of validation is constant per tag. We show that for a reading window of size one and nonrecursive DTDs with one-unambiguous content (i.e. conforming to the current XML standard) there is an algorithm producing a deterministic automaton that validates documents with respect to that DTD. The size of the automaton is at most exponential and we give matching lower bounds. To capture the possible advantages offered by reading windows of size k, we introduce k-unambiguity as a generalization of one-unambiguity, and study the validation against DTDs with k-unambiguous content. We also consider recursive DTDs and give conditions under which they can be validated against by using one-counter automata