ERCIM News 98
July 2014
Special theme Smart Cities
Guest editors Ioannis Askoxylakis (ICS-FORTH and Theo Tryfonas (University of Bristol)
Smart Cities
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by Eberhard van der Laan, Mayor of Amsterdam
Smart Cities are a bit like football: Every city has a team working on a “Smart City” and wants to be the Smartest City in the world, and at the start of every season every supporter thinks his or her team will be the global champion. Various ranking systems exist, comparing cities on indicators ranging from energy consumption per capita to life expectancy; from Wifi coverage to crime-rates. In other words: Smart Cities are about everything and therefore about nothing. To be frank: I do not really believe all this Smart City marketing. I do believe that innovation and technology gives us the opportunity to improve the quality of life of the citizens and make our cities more competitive.
Introduction to the Special Theme - Future Cities and Smart Technologies: A Landscape of Ambition and Caution
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by Theo Tryfonas and Ioannis Askoxylakis
The old Chinese curse of “may you live in interesting times” has never been more relevant than in the field of urban development. For some time now, the global urban population has exceeded the global rural population. Cities and city regions have therefore emerged as the only growth models capable of meeting the increased demands and strains facing global supply systems, which are seriously affected by population growth, climate change, globalization and international security issues. Given these constraints, urban development is becoming a tough challenge.
- Urban Future Outline - A Roadmap on Research for Livable Cities
- Urban Civics - Democratizing Urban Data for Healthy Smart Cities
- AppCivist - A Service-oriented Software Platform for Social Activism
- CityLab@Inria - A Lab on Smart Cities fostering Environmental and Social Sustainability
- A Framework for Improving the Multi-Device User Experience in Smart Cities
- Moving Towards Interoperable Internet-of-Things Deployments in Smart Cities
- Realizing Smart City Scenarios with the ALMANAC and DIMMER Platforms
- Internet of Things Applications for Neighbourhood Embedded Devices
- Internet of Things: A Challenge for Software Engineering
- Semantic Management of Moving Objects in Smart Cities
- Flexible Access to Services in Smart Cities: Let SHERLOCK Advise Modern Citizens
- Quantifying the Benefits of Taxi Trips in New York through Shareability Networks
- Integrated Electric Vehicles Sharing and Pooling Mobility Solutions for Smart Cities
- A Carpooling Recommendation System in the Smartphone Age
- A Smart Parking Campus: An Example of Integrating Different Parking Sensing Solutions into a Single Scalable System
- Stochastic Travel Planning for Unreliable Public Transportation Systems
- A Quantitative Approach to the Design and Analysis of Collective Adaptive Systems for Smart Cities
- Query-Driven Smart Grid City Management
- ‘U-Sense’, A Cooperative Sensing System for Monitoring Air Quality in Urban Areas
- Monitoring and Controlling Energy-positive Public Lighting: The E+grid System
- Demand-Side Management in Smart Micro-Grids: An Optimization Perspective
- Cyber Physical Systems give Life to the Internet of Energy
- When Smart Cities meet Big Data
- cItyAM: Managing Big Urban Data for Analyzing and Modelling Cities
- Urban-Scale Quantitative Visual Analysis
- Mobile Augmented Reality Applications for Smart Cities
- Monitoring People’s Behaviour using Video Analysis and Trajectory Clustering
- Trusted Cells: Ensuring Privacy for the Citizens of Smart Cities
- Smart City Operation Center: A Platform to Optimize Urban Service Rendering
- Building Smarter Cities through ICT-driven Co-Innovation
- W3C and the Web of Things
- COMPOSE - Converging the Internet of Services with the Internet of Things
- Supporting the Design Process of Networked Control Systems
- How to Detect Suspect Behaviour at Sea
- A Breakthrough for Balanced Graph Partitioning
- International Innovation Award for Martin Kersten
- European Project on Precision Farming
- Roberto Scopigno receives the Eurographics “Distinguished Career Award” 2014