A user-centric framework to improve the reusability of open geodata in cities 

    Benítez Páez, Manuel Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-11-22)

    This book presents a user-centric framework that local open data authorities can use it to improve the ongoing initiatives towards a bottom-up approach. In an open data atmosphere where the accessibility of data portals ...

    Climate change and impacts in the urban systems 

    Smid, Marek (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)

    Urban systems are not only major drivers of climate change, but also impact hotspots. The processes of global warming and urban population growth make our urban agglomerations vulnerable to chain reactions triggered by ...

    Mobile Services for Green Living 

    Pajarito Grajales, Diego Fabián (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)

    Although many cities are promoting urban cycling, they do not analyse behavioural patterns or barriers faced during cycling with geospatial technologies. This thesis, placed within the fields of geoinformatics and serious ...

    Place and City: merging our affective and social spatial dimension in the (smart) platial city 

    Acedo Sánchez, Albert (Date of defense: 2018-11-28)

    In this research, we highlight the need to understand and operationalize social concepts spatial dimension for a better understanding of a smart citizen-centric approach which is mainly dependent on our capability to ...

    Smart Sustainable Cities Assessment 

    Akande, Adeoluwa Stephen (Date of defense: 2020-03-13)

    There has been an exponential growth of cities in the last decade. Rural to urban migration are occurring at an unprecedented level. This is partly because cities serve as hubs of innovation offering numerous economic ...

    Spatial and spatio-temporal point patterns on linear networks 

    Moradi, Mohammad Mehdi (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)

    The last decade witnessed an extraordinary increase in interest in the analysis of network related data and trajectories. In the spatial statistics field, there are numerous real examples such as the locations of traffic ...

    Studying user behavior through a participatory sensing framework in an urban context 

    Ngo, Manh Khoi (Date of defense: 2018-11-22)

    The thesis details the design and implementation of a multi-purpose participatory sensing framework (Citizense) based on a list of requirements extracted from the literature. This framework enables ordinary users to ...