This chapter introduces the concept of smart cities and discusses the importance of sound
as a source of information about urban life. It describes a wide range of applications for the …

The high temporal and spatial granularities recommended by the European regulation for
the purpose of environmental noise map** leads to consider new alternatives to …

Mining ubiquitous sensing data is important but also challenging, due to many factors, such
as heterogeneous large-scale data that is often at various levels of abstraction. This also …

Social media and social networks have already woven themselves into the very fabric of
everyday life. This results in a dramatic increase of social data capturing various relations …

Temporal dynamics of social interaction networks as well as the analysis of communities are
key aspects to gain a better understanding of the involved processes, important influence …

The combination of ubiquitous and social computing is an emerging research area which
integrates different but complementary methods, techniques, and tools. In this paper, we …

Social media as well as mobile devices have woven themselves into everyday life,
mediating various implicit and explicit social interactions. The analysis and modeling of the …

We present a new method for detecting descriptive community patterns capturing
exceptional (sequential) link trails. For that, we provide a novel problem formalization: We …

This paper outlines an approach towards socio-technical design of explicative systems
enabling transparent, interpretable and explainable analytics. We sketch the TIE approach …

Two notions of reduction for terms of the/spl lambda/-calculus are introduced and the
question of whether a/spl lambda/-term is/spl beta/-strongly normalizing is reduced to the …