Among other conceptualizations, smart cities have been defined as functional urban areas
articulated by the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and modern …

The voter information tools collectively known as “Voting Advice Applications”(VAAs) have
emerged as particularly popular tools in the realm of E-participation. Today, VAAs are …

Electronic petition (e-petition) is an electronic government (e-government) service that
allows citizens to file petitions to governments via the internet. The complexity of the e …

Featured Application The proposed e-commerce customer preference monitoring (ECPM)
tool can be utilized for any website, but especially e-commerce websites, for collecting a …

Smart cities could be defined as urban areas that use Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) to solve city problems in efficient and sustainable ways. Intent‐aware …

This monograph begins with a presentation of the concept of and selected issues in fuzzy
sets and fuzzy logic, interval-valued fuzzy sets, and I-fuzzy sets-Atanassov's intuitionistic …

This paper is devoted to the problem of measuring similarity between pieces of uncertain
(incomplete) information in the framework of I-fuzzy set theory (Atanassov's intuitionistic …

E-participation refers to the use of digital technologies and online platforms to engage
citizens and other stakeholders in democratic and government decision-making processes …

In recent times, a phenomenon that threatens the representative democracy of many
developed countries is the low voter turnout. Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) are used to …

In this paper, we present ongoing work on the automatic extraction of arguments from textual
content, and on the use of interconnected argument structures by recommender systems …