Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Ahlers, Dirk"
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Searching in the Smart City? — An Information Access Challenge
Ahlers, Dirk (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)How can users use search to make sense of Smart City offers? On the one hand, of course much information is available on the Web and is supposedly easily accessible to search. On the other hand, Smart Cities aim for ... -
The Sense and Non-Sense of PEDs — Feeding Back Practical Experiences of Positive Energy District Demonstrators into the European PED Framework Definition Development Process
Vandevyvere, Han Hendrik B.; Ahlers, Dirk; Wyckmans, Annemie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article discusses early developments of the Positive Energy District (PED) concept, both in terms of its definition and of its implementation in real world demonstrators. Based on the specific challenges for creating ... -
Spatio-Temporal Challenges in Understanding your (Smart) City
Ahlers, Dirk (Chapter, 2024)In this talk, we will explore challenges and opportunities of spatio-temporal information access as connecting temporal and spatial dimensions of mining and analysis. We focus on use cases and examples in the development ... -
Spatio-Temporal Quality Issues for Local Search
Ahlers, Dirk (Chapter, 2014)Geographic search is routinely used in many services and applications that exploit the availability of Web content which is related to a real world place, region or object. However, do you trust the location information? ... -
Supporting Municipal Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Inventories Using Business Process Modeling: A Case Study of Trondheim Municipality
Ahlers, Dirk; Krogstie, John; Driscoll, Patrick Arthur; Lundli, Hans Einar; Loveland, Simon-James; Rothballer, Carsten; Wyckmans, Annemie (Journal article, 2017)Business process modeling and business process management has been used to capture, support and improve a large variety of processes and practices in the private and public sector. Traditionally what is regarded as a good ... -
Surveying GeoNames Gazetteer Data for the Nordic Countries
Ahlers, Dirk (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Gazetteers are the basis of many geospatial applications and serve an important role to collect and make available knowledge about the physical world such as place names and their coordinates. GeoNames is one of the largest ... -
The role of urban planners in smart urban mobility; case study of Nyhavna, Trondheim
Abdollahzadeh, Elham (Master thesis, 2022)The shift to the new era of smart cities has begun over a decade, and the new transformations are inevitable. Transportation planning is a crucial aspect of planning for the cities and has been influenced by this transition. ... -
Towards a Development Process for Geospatial Information Retrieval and Search
Ahlers, Dirk (Chapter, 2013)Geospatial search as a special type of vertical search has specific requirements and challenges. While the general principle of resource discovery, extraction, indexing, and search holds, geospatial search systems are ... -
Towards understanding digital support contributing to climate neutral, inclusive, and beautiful cities: A systematic literature review
Takaoka, Alicia Julia Wilson; Ahlers, Dirk; Ådlandsvik, Ferdinand Ward; Dovland, Eivind Syrdalen; Jaccheri, Maria Letizia (Chapter, 2023)Climate change is an existential threat to Europe and the world, and is impacting and influencing people. At the same time, the urbanization of the world is increasing, meaning that these challenges need to be solved mainly ... -
Towards understanding digital support contributing to climate neutral, inclusive, and beautiful cities: A systematic literature review
Takaoka, Alicia Julia Wilson; Ahlers, Dirk; Jaccheri, Maria Letizia; Dovland, Eivind Syrdalen; Ådlandsvik, Ferdinand Ward (Journal article, 2023)Climate change is an existential threat to Europe and the world, and is impacting and influencing people. At the same time, the urbanization of the world is increasing, meaning that these challenges need to be solved mainly ... -
Understanding challenges in municipal greenhouse gas emission inventories
Ahlers, Dirk; Driscoll, Patrick (Chapter, 2016)A necessary prerequisite for impactful climate mitigation action is the availability of suitable and reliable baselines of emissions. This is especially true for urban and citylevel actions and strategies that need reliable ... -
Understanding Smart Cities as Social Machines
Ahlers, Dirk; Driscoll, Patrick; Löfström, Erica; Krogstie, John; Wyckmans, Annemie (Chapter, 2016)Smart Cities denote a stronger integration of information technology into the organisation of a city and the interaction and participation of its citizens. In developing the concept further, we propose to understand Smart ... -
Using Process Ontologies to Contextualize Recommender Systems in Engineering Projects for Knowledge Access Improvement
Mehrpoor, Mahsa; Gulla, Jon Atle; Ahlers, Dirk; Kristensen, Kjetil; Ghodrat, Soroush; Sivertsen, Ole Ivar (Chapter, 2015) -
Value-Added Services, Virtual Enterprises and Data Spaces Inspired Enterprise Architecture for Smart Cities
Petersen, Sobah Abbas; Pourzolfaghar, Zohreh; Alloush, Iyas; Ahlers, Dirk; Krogstie, John; Helfert, Markus (Chapter, 2019)As a part of their digital transformation, municipalities across Europe have taken initiatives to support Open Data platforms and provide services leveraging on data. This challenges the traditional business driven IT ... -
Visualizing a city within a city – Mapping mobility within a university campus
Ahlers, Dirk; Aulie, Kristoffer; Eriksen, Jeppe; Krogstie, John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Urban mobility analysis usually examines large cities or even regions. We take another angle and examine a university campus as a city within a city to focus on small-scale and hyperlocal characteristics. The campus mobility ... -
Where the streets have no name - Experiences in GIR for a developing country
Ahlers, Dirk (Chapter, 2013)This paper gives a short overview of a project on Geographic Information Retrieval in developing countries in the form of an experience report based in Honduras. It provides some insights into encountered challenges of ... -
Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities. Definition, Key Performance Indicators and Assessment Criteria: Version 2.0
Wiik, Marianne Rose Kjendseth; Fufa, Selamawit Mamo; Fjellheim, Kristin; Lien, Synne Krekling; Krogstie, John; Ahlers, Dirk; Wyckmans, Annemie; Driscoll, Patrick Arthur; Brattebø, Helge; Gustavsen, Arild (ZEN Report;, Research report, 2021)This document outlines the definition, key performance indicators (KPI) and assessment criteria for the Research Centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities (ZEN research centre). This second version of the ZEN ... -
Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities: Definition, Key Performance Indicators and Assessment Criteria: Version 1.0
Wiik, Marianne Rose Kjendseth; Fufa, Selamawit Mamo; Krogstie, John; Ahlers, Dirk; Wyckmans, Annemie; Driscoll, Patrick Arthur; Brattebø, Helge; Gustavsen, Arild (ZEN Report;, Research report, 2018)This document outlines the definition, key performance indicators (KPI) and assessment criteria for the Research Centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities (ZEN research centre). This first version of the ZEN ...