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Possibilities for Linguistic Summaries in Cognitive Cities

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Designing Cognitive Cities

Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control ((SSDC,volume 176))

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The shift to smart cities, and further to cognitive cities, should follow citizens’ needs, and not only the efficient use of resources. Citizens wish to cooperate in decision-making (or voting) and to be informed about various developments in cities, preferably in comprehensible ways. But, summing up from a large amount of data and gamut of data types is not an easy task. Furthermore, many concepts and predicates are expressed by adjectives and adverbs. Hence, the option are linguistic summaries based on the fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic theory. Other stakeholders in cities (dispatchers, planners, marketers, local government, journalists) may also benefit from this approach. Linguistic summaries are able to verbalize mined information from the data by quantified sentences of natural language such as most of young citizens have rather negative opinion about topic T and most of foreign visits are from countries with medium GDP. Illustrative examples are focused on informing citizens, managing surveys, explaining development in pollution and traffic, analysing tourist activities. In this way, stakeholders are informed in a concise way about the situation and trends. They can also recognize the effects of regulations which had been brought in. Another benefit is that citizens are better prepared for voting. This contribution also emphasizes the fact that these achievements can be realized without collecting sensitive data from citizens using them as sensors (except volunteers, which prefer simpler data collection). Moreover, exchange of summaries is not as demanding as exchanging sensitive data.

The original version of this chapter was revised: Affiliation of author “Prof. Miroslav Hudec” has been updated. The correction to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00317-3_11

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  • 20 November 2018

    The affiliation “Faculty of Economic Informatics, University of Economics in Bratislava” of author “Prof. Miroslav Hudec” in the original version of the book has been changed to “Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade” in the chapter “Possibilities for Linguistic Summaries in Cognitive Cities”. The correction book has been updated with the change.

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    Miroslav Hudec

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Hudec, M. (2019). Possibilities for Linguistic Summaries in Cognitive Cities. In: Portmann, E., Tabacchi, M., Seising, R., Habenstein, A. (eds) Designing Cognitive Cities. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 176. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00317-3_3

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