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Neither aristocracy nor simple farmers: thoughts about the existence of a rural élite during the early Middle Ages (6th to 11th centuries) by way of …

2021

Tra due autunni. Storia dell’architettura in Sicilia dal tardogotico al tardobarocco (XV-XVIII secolo)

2022

The history of architecture in Sicily in the early modern age is re-read from a geographical point of view. The conventions, the forms (even symbolic ones), the progress of the construction world are interpreted from an eccentric point of view

Exploring the Life Form of a Student Athlete Afforded by a Dual Career Development Environment in Finland

2020

The current paper introduces a case study conducted in one of the most well-established athletic talent development environments in Finland, with the focus on the environment’s ecological dynamics and organizational culture, in light of its recent effort to rebrand itself as a dual career development environment. Our analysis has been inspired by the holistic ecological approach and ecological dynamics, wherein the authors have considered a dual career development environment from the point of view of its transactions with agentic individuals and affordances for student athletes in the study domain, the sports domain, and the private domain. The authors believe our findings can provide othe…

RISCALDAMENTO GLOBALE E CITTÀ L’incremento della vegetazione e la progettazione urbana, tra non finito e paesaggio urbano

2023

Il contributo mette a fuoco l’interazione fra la progettazione urbana e le strategie per il contenimento del riscaldamento globale costruendo un ragionamento che partendo dall’eredità del Movimento Moderno, include gli esiti delle ricerche più recenti. Da tale base di partenza scientifica emerge come protagonista la tesi fondata sull’aumento della vegetazione in ambito urbano, come strumento indispensabile alla mitigazione delle temperature. Tale proposta trova, nel corso dell’approfondimento, una verifica sperimentale attraverso alcune concrete esperienze di progettazione che coniugano l’obiettivo ambientale avendo cura, al contempo, della qualità degli spazi dell’abitare. I progetti dimos…

Towards Ecosystemic Stance in Finnish Public Sector Enterprise Architecture

2019

Governments and organizations in both public and private sector are operating in fields of ever-growing uncertainty and complexity. To study this complex environment, the concept of ecosystems has been suggested, interpreting organizations as intertwined systems among layers of evolving ecosystems. While offering possibilities, operating in an ecosystemic environment might prove to be challenging, and the change from traditional governance structures might be difficult to manage, requiring holistic yet detailed view. Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been an interest of academics and practitioners for few decades, offering one of the most prominent solutions to managing complex organizations…

Modelling the Tactical Behaviour of the Australian Population in a Bushfire

2015

This paper is concerned with the development of an agent-based model of population behaviour during a bushfire, to form the basis of a simulator that will be used as a decision-support tool for emergency managers. To ensure the validity of the simulation results, it is essential that the model, and the underlying agent architecture, are as realistic as possible. After providing some context about recent bushfires in Victoria, Australia, we justify the need for a BDI (belief, desire, intention) agent architecture. Although some tools exist to support the integration of such agents in simulations, they are infrequently used. We therefore show how an existing methodology for modelling military…

Emerging Trends, Issues, and Challenges in Big Data and Its Implementation toward Future Smart Cities

2017

The articles in this special section focus on Big Data as it impacts future smart cities. The world is experiencing a period of extreme urbanization. Moreover, this process will continue, and the global urban population is expected to double by 2050. Smart city has been proposed to improve the efficiency of services and meet residents’ needs for better quality of life. Essentially, smart city integrates the Internet of Things and emerging communication technologies such as fifth generation (5G) solutions to manage the citys’ assets, including transportation systems, hospitals, water supply networks, waste management, and so on. Therefore, smart city is driving innovation and new technologie…

A scalable multiagent system architecture for interactive applications

2013

Interactive applications like crowd simulations need to properly render the virtual world while simulating the interaction of thousands of agents at the same time. The computational workload generated by these two tasks highly increases with the number of the simulated agents, requiring a scalable design of the multiagent system. In this paper, we present, in an unified manner, a distributed multiagent system architecture that can manage large crowds of autonomous agents at interactive rates while rendering multiple views of the virtual world being simulated. This architecture consists of a distributed multiagent system and a complementary distributed visualization subsystem. We also presen…

WHY  DID  THEY  NEED  TO  COME  NOW?  COVID-19  CRISIS  STRAINS  RELATIONSHIPS  WITH  RETURNING  AND  VISITING  COMPATRIOTS

2021

One of the first areas severely hit by the Covid-19 pandemic was international travel. In March/April, with commercial flights coming to a near halt, the governments were struggling to help their stranded citizens to return home. Extra flights and ferry trips were organised, and the opportunity to return was used by many emigrants worried about the uncertainty and the possible future development of the pandemic. This paper containing both data collected through survey and in-depth interviews with people aged 50+ in Latvia, is the first to explore the reactions of the society to repatriation policy implemented by the government of Latvia, and to explore how the Covid-19 situation has affecte…

Towards a Simulator of Integrated Long-Term Care Systems for Elderly People

2014

In this paper, we propose a simulator for integrated long-term care systems using as a starting point a holistic model of care systems for people that need long term care, the Sustainable Socio-Health Model (SSHM). The implementation of the simulator on the Jason multi-agent platform allows the tool to include the human interactions, preferences, and social abilities that take place between elderly people and the staff of healthcare systems (doctors, social workers and nurses). In addition, the use of this multi-agent platform provides the required scalability for simulating population sizes of different orders of magnitude. The paper shows the model to be implemented in the simulator, the…