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No full textIn: Augusta Alice Smart scrapbook.; Title devised by cataloguer.; Condition: Some foxing and stains with tear on lower left of page.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3964370; Exhibited: "Cooee", National Library of Australia exhibition gallery, 14 June - 9 September 2007. AuCNL. Page of small drawings, caricatures, people and animals in the sketchbook some of which have inscriptions beneath. This is page 7 in the Augusta Alice Smart scrapbook
SMART: A process-oriented methodology for resilient smart cities
No full textCities are engines of economic prosperity and social development. Rapid urbanization and the impacts of climate change have resulted in increased vulnerabilities in cities. On the other hand, the increasing proliferation of connected devices and distributed monitoring of the environment around us has opened up an opportunity to transform the way we create and manage cities. Contextual evidence of performance, outcome and efficiency can now be readily collected at a higher resolution to aid multi-disciplinary and multi-objective decision-making, enabling optimal evolution of cities against the backdrop of constrained resources and intensified vulnerabilities. This paper first argues that distributed and ubiquitous monitoring is at the heart of smart cities. Insights can be inferred from the gathered data with potential for evidence-based decisions at the required spatial and temporal scales. The paper then discusses the development of a comprehensive but concise frameworks called DICES (data, insights, citizen, evidence and standards) for conceptualizing smart cities. The dimensions of DICES are then translated into a process oriented methodology called SMART (specify, monitor, analyze, resolve and transform) by formalizing key aspects of the smart city process. Generality and scalability of DICES and SMART are demonstrated through the development of REPRO, a risk- and evidence-based platform for resilient and optimal design of buildings and infrastructure in a smart city
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An Agent Based Simulation of Smart Metering Technology Adoption
No full textBased on the classic behavioural theory “the Theory of Planned Behaviour”, we develop an agent-based model to simulate the diffusion of smart metering technology in the electricity market. We simulate the emergent adoption of smart metering technology under different management strategies and economic regulations. Our research results show that in terms of boosting the take-off of smart meters in the electricity market, choosing the initial users on a random and geographically dispersed basis and encouraging meter competition between energy suppliers can be two very effective strategies. We also observe an “S-curve” diffusion of smart metering technology and a “lock-in” effect in the model. The research results provide us with insights as to effective policies and strategies for the roll-out of smart metering technology in the electricity market
Intelligent Energy Optimization for User Intelligible Goals in Smart Home Environments
No full textIntelligent management of energy consumption is one of the key issues for future energy distribution systems, smart buildings, and consumer appliances. The problem can be tackled both from the point of view of the utility provider, with the intelligence embedded in the smart grid, or from the point of view of the consumer, thanks to suitable local energy management systems (EMS). Conserving energy, however, should respect the user requirements regarding the desired state of the environment, therefore an EMS should constantly and intelligently find the balance between user requirements and energy saving. The paper proposes a solution to this problem, based on explicit high-level modeling of user intentions and automatic control of device states through the solution and optimization of a constrained Boolean satisfiability problem. The proposed approach has been integrated into a smart environment framework, and promising preliminary results are reporte
The smart city as urban eco-modernisation: the case of Masdar City in Abu Dhabi
No full textThis chapter explores the notion and practice of the smart city with a geographical focus on Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. Smart-city projects are understood and discussed as the product of overarching political economies related to fast-track urbanisation. The case of Abu Dhabi shows that smart-city initiatives are connected to the state’s goals of changing its economic base and preserving the political status quo, through the development and commercialization of smart-clean technology. In this sense, the smart city, as a living laboratory meant to produce new cleantech products such as smart grids and state-of-the-art solar power stations, becomes the physical locus where new strands of the regional economy are cultivated.
Through the example of Masdar City, a new high-tech city under construction in Abu Dhabi, the chapter unpacks and critiques the contradictions between the economic imperatives that underpin so-called smart interventions and their overall sustainability, revealing that, as in most cases of ecological modernisation, socio-environmental concerns are overshadowed by business interests. We conclude that, in addition to being ineffective against the social and the environmental problems caused by cities, by supporting transnational machines of production and consumption, smart-city solutions risk to backfire and exacerbate the same vicious circle that they should be breaking
Discovering the Dynamics of Smart Business Networks
No full textIn an earlier paper ,was discussed the necessary evolution from smart business networks, as based on process need satisfaction and governance, into business genetics [1] based on strategic bonds or decay and opportunistic complementarities. This paper will describe an approach and diffusion algorithms whereby to discover the dynamics of emergent smart business network structures and their performance in view of collaboration patterns over time. Some real life early analyses of dynamics are discussed based on cases and date from the high tech sector. Lessons learnt from such cases are also given on overall smart network dynamics with respect to local interaction strategies, as modelled like in business genetics by individual partner profiles, goals and constraints. It shows the weakness of static "business operating systems", as well as the possibly destabilizing clustering effects amongst nodes linked to filtering, evaluation and own preferences.dynamics;network performance;smart business networks;SBN;business genetics
Detection of Cognitive Features from Web Resources in Support of Cultural Modeling and Analysis
No full textThe World Wide Web serves as a valuable source of culture-relevant information, which can be used to support cultural modeling and analysis activities. Part of the challenge in exploiting the Web as a source of culture-relevant information relates to the need to detect and extract information about beliefs, attitudes, and values from a variety of different resources. The Web thus features a rich variety of information resources, and these are seldom categorized with respect to the dimensions in which cultural analysts are interested. Exploiting the Web as a source of culture-relevant information therefore requires techniques and approaches that enable cultural analysts to extract relevant information and organize extracted content in various ways. In this paper, we outline an approach to assist cultural analysts in the extraction and organization of relevant information. We show techniques that can be used to extract information about the attitudes, beliefs, and values of individuals, and how this data can, in turn, be used to support cultural modeling and analysis
Smart to green: smart eco-cities in the green economy
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this recordDrawing on examples from various cities, the chapter traces the convergence between eco-urbanism and smart urbanism in the past two decades. The chapter begins by tracing the eco-city and smart city’s conceptual trajectories, before moving on to consider how these have become enmeshed into what has been called the ‘smart eco-city’ from the mid-2010s onwards. The chapter then moves on to consider, briefly, the broad terrain around the ‘green economy’. The smart eco-city is placed within a broader concern with harnessing Big Data, the Internet of Things, digital lifestyles and infrastructures to connect the urban to green economy visions, strategies and pathways. Concluding, the discussion highlights the divergence between mainstream smart eco-urbanism and potential alternatives that emerge when considering urban social sustainability more closely.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC
Response to Commentary "efficacy of inspiratory muscle training in chronic heart failure patients"
No full textIn their letter Plentz and colleagues attempt to highlight discrepancies between their review work and that of Smart et al. Plentz and colleagues suggest that the search by Smart et al. was too narrow. We challenge Plentz and colleagues to find omitted studies that were published in the stipulated time frame as, in addition to the stipulated search, extensive hand searching was conducted. The discrepancy between the previous works and the work of Smart et al. may be explained by the fact that we only recorded papers where we were required to read more than the title (e.g. abstracts or full manuscripts) in order to come to a decision to exclude a study. Second, Plentz and colleagues suggest our review included too many studies, which perhaps contradicts their comment above? We do however acknowledge that journal word limits permitting the inclusion of a sensitivity analysis (e.g. removal of studies of Winkelmann and Laoutaris) may have been helpful in teasing out any effects of heterogenic studies
Ordinary Chinese Smart Cities: The Case of Wuhan
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the link in this recordCommentaries on future-oriented Chinese urban development tend to focus on showcase projects underway in wealthy coastal cities. This chapter instead sheds light on the way that the smart has been integrated into more ‘ordinary’ Chinese urban life, using the case of Wuhan, a ‘Tier II’ city in Central China. It explores the conditions of the emergence of Wuhan’s smart city activities from three perspectives. First, it outlines a series of ‘vertical’ enabling factors, whereby an international body of discourse and practice has been ‘translated’ into national Chinese urban policies. Second, it considers the simultaneous significance of ‘horizontal’ links between Wuhan’s local government, city governments abroad, local private enterprises, and foreign firms. Third, it relates Wuhan’s smart credentials to a broader process of digitalisation of everyday life in the city. It concludes by reflecting on the distinctive characteristics of Chinese smart urbanism, as exemplified by Wuhan, and finally draws out some implications for future research into smart cities elsewhere. Specifically, it proposes that the smart city is most usefully approached as a shifting and locally inflected concept which not only channels multiple policy agendas, but also reflects broader changes to urban space and governance in particular contexts.This chapter draws on a research project funded by the Economic and Social Research
Council (grant number ES/L015978/1) ‘Smart eco-cities for a green economy: a
comparative study of Europe and China’
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