Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2018: 18th International Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, July 2–5, 2018, Proceedings, Part III

Front Matter ....Pages I-XXXV
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Decision Support Model for Conservation, Reuse and Valorization of the Historic Cultural Heritage  (Lucia Della Spina, Francesco Calabrò)....Pages 3-17
 Predicting Student Dropouts in Higher Education Using Supervised Classification Algorithms  (Antonella Serra, Paola Perchinunno, Massimo Bilancia)....Pages 18-33
 A Procedure for Determining the Industrial Profitability of Settlement Interventions in the Appraisal of Exceptional Contribution of Urbanisation  (Fabrizio Battisti, Orazio Campo)....Pages 34-50
 The Positioning of Italian Universities in the International Rankings  (Monica Cazzolle, Paola Perchinunno, Vito Ricci)....Pages 51-68
 Performance Evaluation of Waste Materials in Construction for Sustainability  (Mercedes del Río Merino, Marica Sorrentino, Carmelo Maria Torre, Paola Villoria-Sáez)....Pages 69-83
 Multi-Stakeholder Spatial Decision Analysis (M-SSDA) for a Culture-Led Regeneration Strategy  (Raffaella Amistà, Maria Cerreta)....Pages 84-99
Front Matter ....Pages 101-101
 Towards a User-Friendly Solution for Collaboratively Managing a Developed Ontology  (R. M. D. C. Rathnayaka, A. I. Walisadeera, M. D. J. S. Goonathilake, A. Ginige)....Pages 103-119
 A Semi-automatic Approach to Collaboratively Populate an Ontology for Ontology-Illiterate Users  (R. A. O. M. P. D. Akmeemana, A. I. Walisadeera, M. D. J. S. Goonathilake, A. Ginige)....Pages 120-135
 Concurrent Execution in Scripting Programming Language ‘mruby’  (Kazuaki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Maeda, Hirohito Higashi)....Pages 136-146
 A Browser Application for Keyword Recommendation Based on User Web Search  (Chen Kuo, Noriaki Yoshiura)....Pages 147-162
 Local Clock Offset and Drift Estimation Between Neighbor Wireless Sensor Nodes  (Ayako Arao, Hiroaki Higaki)....Pages 163-176
 Toward a Secure VM Migration Control Mechanism Using Blockchain Technique for Cloud Computing Environment  (Toshihiro Uchibayashi, Bernady Apduhan, Takuo Suganuma, Masahiro Hiji)....Pages 177-186
Front Matter ....Pages 187-187
 Using Geographic Information System and Simulated Annealing for Optimizing the Railway Design  (Ali Mousanejad, Alireza Vafaeinejad, Kamyar Eslami)....Pages 189-204
 Scenarios of Sediment Transport Management in Francia Creek, Valparaiso, Chile  (Vladimir J. Alarcon, Claudio Magrini)....Pages 205-218
 Safety of Physical Assets: A Ranking Method and Its GIS Implementation  (Paolino Di Felice, Luigi Pomante, Antonello Di Felice)....Pages 219-232
 Spatial Data Warehouse and Spatial OLAP in Indoor/Outdoor Cultural Environments  (Mauro Mazzei, Salvatore Di Guida)....Pages 233-250
 Multiple Fabric Assessment: Focus on Method Versatility and Flexibility  (Alessandro Araldi, Joan Perez, Giovanni Fusco, Takashi Fuse)....Pages 251-267
 Web-Based GIS Platform for Automatic Prediction of Earthquakes  (Valeri G. Gitis, Alexander B. Derendyaev)....Pages 268-283
 GIS Applications in Costal Transport: The Co.Tr.I.S Case and Its Contribution Towards the Islands Sustainable Smartification  (Dimos N. Pantazis, Vassilios C. Moussas, Panagiotis Stratakis, Dimitris Stathakis, Eleni Gkadolou)....Pages 284-299
 Building-Level Change Detection from Large-Scale Historical Vector Data by Using Direct and a Three-Tier Post-classification Comparison  (Masroor Hussain, Dongmei Chen)....Pages 300-316
 GPS-GIS for the Identification of a New Air Approach Path Through RNAV Procedure  (Vincenzo Barrile, Antonino Fotia, Giuliana Bilotta)....Pages 317-326
 Building Extraction in High Spatial Resolution Images Using Deep Learning Techniques  (Ashvitha R. Shetty, B. Krishna Mohan)....Pages 327-338
 Servicification – Trend or Paradigm Shift in Geospatial Data Processing?  (Andreas Fricke, Jürgen Döllner, Hartmut Asche)....Pages 339-350
 Towards Automatic Assessment of Perceived Walkability  (Ivan Blečić, Arnaldo Cecchini, Giuseppe A. Trunfio)....Pages 351-365
 Rockfall Source Areas Assessment in an Area of the Pollino National Park (Southern Italy)  (Rosalba Muzzillo, Lucia Losasso, Francesco Sdao)....Pages 366-379
Front Matter ....Pages 381-381
 FAiR: A Framework for Analyses and Evaluations on Recommender Systems  (Diego Carvalho, Nícollas Silva, Thiago Silveira, Fernando Mourão, Adriano Pereira, Diego Dias et al.)....Pages 383-397
 Clustering Students Interactions in eLearning Systems for Group Elicitation  (Paolo Mengoni, Alfredo Milani, Yuanxi Li)....Pages 398-413
 Community Graph Elicitation from Students’ Interactions in Virtual Learning Environments  (Paolo Mengoni, Alfredo Milani, Yuanxi Li)....Pages 414-425
Front Matter ....Pages 427-427
 The Effects of Loss of Orthogonality on Large Scale Numerical Computations  (Christopher C. Paige)....Pages 429-439
 Simulation of Supernova Explosion Accelerated on GPU: Spherically Symmetric Neutrino-Radiation Hydrodynamics  (Hideo Matsufuru, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi)....Pages 440-455
 Practical Implementation of Lattice QCD Simulation on SIMD Machines with Intel AVX-512  (Issaku Kanamori, Hideo Matsufuru)....Pages 456-471
Front Matter ....Pages 473-473
 From the District Model to an Analysis by Specializations, Concentrations and Productive Clusters: The Localization of Economic Activities in Puglia  (Paola Perchinunno, Silvestro Montrone, Carmelo Maria Torre)....Pages 475-489
 Post-normal Rationality in Assessment of Environmental Damage and Environmental Risk  (Carmelo Maria Torre, Pierluigi Morano, Francesco Tajani)....Pages 490-501
 Urban Vulnerability Assessment: Towards a Cross-Scale Spatial Multi-criteria Approach  (Maria Cerreta, Roberta Mele, Giuliano Poli)....Pages 502-517
Front Matter ....Pages 519-519
 Performance Analysis of Different Multiband RF Energy Harvesting Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks  (Saswati Ghosh, Debarati Sen)....Pages 521-530
 Efficient Video Delivery by Leveraging Playback Buffers over Software Defined Networking  (Joonbeom Ahn, Syed M. Raza, Sanggil Yeoum, Hyunseung Choo)....Pages 531-542
 Personalized Service Degradation Policies on OTT Applications Based on the Consumption Behavior of Users  (Juan Sebastián Rojas, Álvaro Rendón Gallón, Juan Carlos Corrales)....Pages 543-557
 Relay Selection Scheme for Cooperative Backscatter Communications Networks  (Daniyal Munir, Danish Mehmood Mughal, Tahira Mahboob, Min Young Chung)....Pages 558-569
Front Matter ....Pages 571-571
 How has Cagliari Changed Its Citizens in Smart Citizens? Exploring the Influence of ITS Technology on Urban Social Interactions  (Mauro Coni, Chiara Garau, Francesco Pinna)....Pages 573-588
 Understanding Kid-Friendly Urban Space for a More Inclusive Smart City: The Case Study of Cagliari (Italy)  (Alfonso Annunziata, Chiara Garau)....Pages 589-605
 Home-School Routes and Child Psychology: The Smartness in Small Steps  (Francesco Pinna, Mauro Coni, Francesca Maltinti, Silvia Portas)....Pages 606-621
 Innovative Transport Systems to Promote Sustainable Mobility: Developing the Model Architecture of a Traffic Control and Supervisor System  (Vincenza Torrisi, Matteo Ignaccolo, Giuseppe Inturri)....Pages 622-638
 Smart City Governance Strategies to Better Move Towards a Smart Urbanism  (Margherita Azzari, Chiara Garau, Paolo Nesi, Michela Paolucci, Paola Zamperlin)....Pages 639-653
 City Dashboards and the Achilles’ Heel of Smart Cities: Putting Governance in Action and in Space  (Ginevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso, Carlo Donato)....Pages 654-668
Front Matter ....Pages 669-669
 Spatial-HTM: A MapReduce-Based System for Querying Spatial Data with the Hierarchical Triangular Mesh  (Jiabao Yan, Haojia Zuo, Ying Zhao, Yingyu Li)....Pages 671-681
Back Matter ....Pages 683-684