This study adopts an integrative review approach to explore the differences and similarities
between smart cities and sustainable cities. The research starts by performing two …

Big Data are a paradigm through which valuable information is achieved through the
analysis of a large amount of data. The sources of these data can be varied, from data …

The possibility offered by the current technology to collect and store data sets regarding
public places located on the Earth globe is posing new challenges, as far as the integration …

Soft querying on databases (ie, selecting data items that partially match selection conditions)
was investigated on top of classical relational databases in past research works; however …

Since the advent of JSON as a popular format for exchanging large amounts of data, a novel
category of NoSQL database systems, named JSON document stores, has emerged for …

The complexity of reality has driven the evolution of Fuzzy-Set Theory from the initial
proposal made by Zadeh in 1965, towards more complex models. Moving from a quick …

The availability of large data sets represented as JSON documents is demanding for
powerful tools able to integrate and query them. The J-CO Framework is a research …

Abstract Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets extend the classical notion of Fuzzy Sets, so as to represent
“hesitation”: indeed, an item has both a membership degree and a non-membership degree …

Abstract JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) has become popular for exchanging data sets
over the Internet. Many data sets are “geo-tagged”, since they represent spatial entities. As …

Since the last two decades, Web Intelligence has denoted a plethora of approaches to
discover useful knowledge from the vast World-Wide Web; however, dealing with the …