There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

자연주의적 탐구조사(Naturalistic Inquiry)

Role of social media in online travel information search

This paper presents control and coordination algorithms for groups of vehicles. The focus is on autonomous vehicle networks performing distributed sensing tasks where each vehicle plays the role of a mobile tunable sensor. The paper proposes gradient descent algorithms for a class of utility functions which encode optimal coverage and sensing policies. The resulting closed-loop behavior is adaptive, distributed, asynchronous, and verifiably correct.

Coverage control for mobile sensing networks

https://www.coris.uniroma1.it/sites/default/files/12.08.39_Event%20Toursm%20_GETZ.pdf

Event tourism: Definition, evolution, and research

The tourism product

Airbnb has grown very rapidly over the past several years, with millions of tourists having used the service. The purpose of this study was to investigate tourists’ motivations for using Airbnb and...

Why Tourists Choose Airbnb: A Motivation-Based Segmentation Study:

Part 1 The content, challenge and strategy of tourism research. Part 2 Defining and describing tourism. Part 3 Segmenting the tourism market. Part 4 Understanding the tourist. Part 5 Forecasting tourism demand and tourist trends. Part 6 Selecting a site for business development. Part 7 Defining the geographic scope of the industry. Part 8 Describing tourism regions. Part 9 Determining the value of public resources used in tourism. Part 10 Estimating the local economic magnitude of tourism. Appendices. References.

Tourism Analysis: A Handbook

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2059&context=ttra

Assessing Airbnb as a disruptive innovation relative to hotels: Substitution and comparative performance expectations

This paper is a longitudinal study of 140 articles on residents’ attitudes to tourism published in Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, and Journal of Travel Research from 1984 to 2010. Content analysis was used to determine the nature of the articles and the research approaches used. Although most articles were atheoretical, over the survey period an increasing proportion of studies made use of a variety of theories drawn from other disciplines to investigate the topic. The majority of studies were quantitative in nature, while a few studies used qualitative and mixed-methods approaches. Based on the results, some implications for research design and possibilities for future research are discussed. The paper concludes that studies on the topic have evolved from being low on methodological sophistication and theoretical awareness to being high on both aspects. Research on this topic has reached a stage of active scholarship in theory development followed by empirical testing. The study's limita...

Stephen L. Smith

Papers

The tourism product

Why Tourists Choose Airbnb: A Motivation-Based Segmentation Study:

Tourism Analysis: A Handbook

Assessing Airbnb as a disruptive innovation relative to hotels: Substitution and comparative performance expectations

Residents’ attitudes to tourism: a longitudinal study of 140 articles from 1984 to 2010