AI and Smart Cities: Risks and Opportunities
Tan Yigitcanlar, Luke Butler, Farnoosh Roozkhosh, and I have published a paper in Energies.
IFE Catapult Grant: Mitigating Urban Heat
We have received funding from the Institute for Future Environments Catapult research funding program at QUT. Mitigating Urban Heat: Developing a Climate Smart Toolkit for Liveable, Sustainable Precincts to Address Environmental Monitoring and Better Building Design Urban heat islands (UHI) are a major contributor to increasing global warming, which are metropolitan areas that are significantly […]
Coverage – Delivering Artificial Intelligence in Government – Government Matters
Dan Chenok, executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government, discussed my recently released report – Delivering Artificial Intelligence in Government: Challenges and Opportunities – on Government Matters. Also covered in Government Executive, Routefifty.com, Nextgov
Poster – Designing Smart Cities – Ohio State University
Designing and Planning for Smart(er) Cities – Practicing Planner
You can find my article on smart cities in the current issue of Practicing Planner. Abstract: Within the past 24 months the concept of smart (and intelligent) cities has been become popular in the media. For instance, Scientific American ran a special issue on smart cities (September 2011). Industry players such as IBM and Siemens have specific […]
Complexity, Policy Informatics, and Public Administration
Erik Johnston (Arizona State University), Qian Hu (University of Central Florida), and I have completed a paper for the Governance of Complex Systems: Challenges of Making Public Administration and Complexity Theory Work Workshop to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands in June 2011. How the Application of Complexity and Policy Informatics to Public Administration can Change the Questions we […]
Towards Evidence-Driven Policy Design to Appear in The Innovation Journal
My paper co-authored with Yuan Lin, Towards Evidence-Driven Policy Design: Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Modeling, will appear in The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal.
Finally, A Majority of Executives Embrace Experimentation: HBR Blog
My second post on the Harvard Business Review site went live today! The post was written in collaboration with H. James Wilson and is titled, Finally, A Majority of Executives Embrace Experimentation. The post outlines the value proposition of building an experimentation culture within organizations and how executives can support employee experimentation. The post has been picked […]
Towards Evidence-Driven Policy Design: Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Modeling
Along with my doctoral student, Yuan Lin, I have co-authored an article that describes how we might move towards evidence-driven policy design. This article draws from the keynote that I have at the 2010 Computational Social Science Society Conference. Efforts to design public policies for social systems tend to confront highly complex conditions which have […]
Co-Evolution of Organizational Network and Individual Behavior: An Agent-Based Model of Interpersonal Knowledge Transfer – International Conference on Information Systems
Yuan Lin, my doctoral student, and I have a paper accepted at the Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems. The paper describes our ongoing efforts to develop robust models for studying the dynamics of knowledge transfer within organizations. Abstract: This study focuses on the co-evolution of informal organizational structures and individual knowledge transfer behavior within […]