Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study

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Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Khan, Zaheer ^a   Dambruch, Jens ^b   Peters Anders, Jan ^c   Sackl, Andreas ^c   Strasser, Anton ^c   Fröhlich, Peter ^c   Templer, Simon ^d   Soomro, Kamran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b FRAUNHOFER IGD   (Germany)

^c AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d Wetransform GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated feedback; Citizen participation; Domain vocabulary and rule languages; Knowledge generation; Planning proposals

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; REFORESTATION; URBAN PLANNING;

AUTOMATED FEEDBACK; CITIZEN PARTICIPATION; COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; KNOWLEDGE GENERATIONS; SOCIAL INNOVATIONS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

SMART CITY;

EID: 85018771560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20782489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/info8020047     Document Type: Article

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