Gated Communities – by product of the lack of trust?

Gated communities are housing areas that have been enclosed in one way or another, typically involving heavy use of surveillance technology (see Addington & Rennison, 2015). Such areas were first described in the USA and South Africa in the late 80s and early 90s (McKenzie, 1994; Blakely & Snyder, 1997). Since then they has been focal points of several research projects in different regions of the world (Low, 2003; Glasze, 2003). There is a significant number of publications covering the increasing number of gated communities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) after democratization of formerly communist societies (Bodnar & Molnar, 2009). In the post-communist context, a general lack of trust, the increasing socio-economic polarization, fear of crime and the existential insecurity created in the democratization process have been forwarded as potential explanations for the rapid expansion of gated communities (Hirt & Petrovic, 2010). Paper will present the results of the project Like Fish in Water: Surveillance in Post-Communist Societies that commissioned field work in Estonia, Poland, and Serbia (2014-15). A representative and probabilistic sample of 1000 respondents from each country were interviewed face-to-face on matters of trust, security, surveillance and a range of contextual aspects, among others gated communities.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

The local triangle axiom in topology and domain theory

[EN] We introduce a general notion of distance in weakly separated topological spaces. Our approach differs from existing ones since we do not assume the reflexivity axiom in general. We demonstrate that our partial semimetric spaces provide a common generalization of semimetrics known from Topology and both partial metrics and measurements studied in Quantitative Domain Theory. In the paper, we focus on the local triangle axiom, which is a substitute for the triangle inequality in our distance spaces. We use it to prove a counterpart of the famous Archangelskij Metrization Theorem in the more general context of partial semimetric spaces. Finally, we consider the framework of algebraic domains and employ Lebesgue measurements to obtain a complete characterization of partial metrizability of the Scott topology.Waszkiewicz, P. (2003). The local triangle axiom in topology and domain theory. Applied General Topology. 4(1):47-70. doi:10.4995/agt.2003.2009.47704

FICS 2010

International audienceInformal proceedings of the 7th workshop on Fixed Points in Computer Science (FICS 2010), held in Brno, 21-22 August 201

Quantitative continuous domains

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Case-based User Profiling in a Personal Travel Assistant

this paper we present an architecture for a Personal Travel Assistant (PTA). We focus on the ability of this PTA to elaborate a user's travel requirements and evaluate offers. These decisions are based on a User Profile that has the interesting characteristic that it adopts a lazy policy on learning from a user's past behavior

FICS 2010

International audienceInformal proceedings of the 7th workshop on Fixed Points in Computer Science (FICS 2010), held in Brno, 21-22 August 201

FICS 2010

International audienceInformal proceedings of the 7th workshop on Fixed Points in Computer Science (FICS 2010), held in Brno, 21-22 August 201