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A worldwide model for boundaries of urban settlements
Erneson A. Oliveira, Vasco Furtado, José S. Andrade +1
The shape of urban settlements plays a fundamental role in their sustainable planning. Properly defining the boundaries of cities is challenging and remains an open problem in the…
Towards Understanding the Impact of Crime in a Choice of a Route by a Bus Passenger
Daniel Sullivan, Carlos Caminha, Hygor Melo +1
In this paper we describe a simulation platform that supports studies on the impact of crime on urban mobility. We present an example of how this can be achieved by seeking to unde…
Increasing the Likelihood of Finding Public Transport Riders that Face Problems Through a Data-Driven approach
Vasco Furtado, Carlos Caminha, Elizabeth Furtado +4
The maintenance of big cities public transport service quality requires constant monitoring, which may become an expensive and time-consuming practice. The perception of quality, f…
Towards Understanding the Impact of Human Mobility on Police Allocation
Carlos Caminha, Vasco Furtado
Motivated by recent findings that human mobility is proxy for crime behavior in big cities and that there is a superlinear relationship between the people's movement and crime, thi…
From Data to City Indicators: A Knowledge Graph for Supporting Automatic Generation of Dashboards
Henrique Santos, Victor Dantas, Vasco Furtado +2
In the context of Smart Cities, indicator definitions have been used to calculate values that enable the comparison among different cities. The calculation of an indicator values h…
A Service-Oriented Architecture for Assisting the Authoring of Semantic Crowd Maps
Henrique Santos, Vasco Furtado
Although there are increasingly more initiatives for the generation of semantic knowledge based on user participation, there is still a shortage of platforms for regular users to c…