no code implementations • 16 Nov 2023 • Chuhao Qin, Evangelos Pournaras
Swarms of autonomous interactive drones, with the support of recharging technology, can provide compelling sensing capabilities in Smart Cities, such as traffic monitoring and disaster response.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2023 • Srijoni Majumdar, Evangelos Pournaras
The legitimacy of bottom-up democratic processes for the distribution of public funds by policy-makers is challenging and complex.
no code implementations • 24 May 2023 • Evangelos Pournaras
Large language models of artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, find remarkable but controversial applicability in science and research.
1 code implementation • 15 Jan 2023 • Evangelos Pournaras, Mark Christopher Ballandies, Stefano Bennati, Chien-fei Chen
Collective privacy loss becomes a colossal problem, an emergency for personal freedoms and democracy.
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2021 • Evangelos Pournaras, Atif Nabi Ghulam, Renato Kunz, Regula Hänggli
Living lab outdoor experimentation using pervasive computing provides new opportunities: higher realism, external validity and socio-spatio-temporal observations in large scale.
no code implementations • 26 Oct 2020 • Dick Carrillo, Lam Duc Nguyen, Pedro H. J. Nardelli, Evangelos Pournaras, Plinio Morita, Demóstenes Z. Rodríguez, Merim Dzaferagic, Harun Siljak, Alexander Jung, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Irene Macaluso, Mehar Ullah, Gustavo Fraidenraich, Petar Popovski
In this sense, we expect active participation of empowered citizens to supplement the more usual top-down management of epidemics.
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
no code implementations • 30 Jun 2020 • Mark Christopher Ballandies, Evangelos Pournaras
The accuracy, practicality, and usability of the knowledge graph builder is evaluated in a real-world social experiment that involves a smartphone implementation and a Smart City application scenario.
no code implementations • 20 Apr 2020 • Thomas Asikis, Johannes Klinglmayr, Dirk Helbing, Evangelos Pournaras
In a so-called overpopulated world, sustainable consumption is of existential importance. However, the expanding spectrum of product choices and their production complexity challenge consumers to make informed and value-sensitive decisions.
no code implementations • 10 Jan 2020 • Brionna Davis, Grace Jennings, Taylor Pothast, Ilias Gerostathopoulos, Evangelos Pournaras, Raphael E. Stern
Specifically, this study compares the effects of different underlying urban structures on the overall network performance, and investigates which characteristics of the network make it possible to realize routing improvements using a decentralized optimization router.
no code implementations • 16 May 2019 • David Castells-Graells, Christopher Salahub, Evangelos Pournaras
They can also improve the risk awareness of existing cyclists' as well as support new cyclists, such as tourists, to safely explore a new urban environment by bike.
no code implementations • 21 Apr 2019 • Jovan Nikolic, Evangelos Pournaras
Structural self-adaptation, by means of self-organization, changes the order as well as the input information of the agents' collective decision-making.
no code implementations • 7 May 2018 • Evangelos Pournaras, Srivatsan Yadhunathan, Ada Diaconescu
Self-adaptation of the learning structure is a challenge.
1 code implementation • 28 Feb 2017 • Stefano Bennati, Evangelos Pournaras
A baseline scenario is considered in which IoT sensor data are shared directly with an untrustworthy central aggregator.
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing