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EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities

Issue 8, 2018
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Henrique Santos and Sara Paiva

  • A DSPL Design Framework for SASs: A Smart Building Example

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    Authors:
    A. Achtaich, N. Souissi, R. Mazo, O. Roudies, C. Salinesi

    Abstract:
    The Internet of Things is a land of opportunity for believers and supporters of Smart Cities. Experience already shows that smartphones, smart appliances, wearables, sensors and actuators can be brought together to deliver advanced services like smart markets, smart parking, smart buildings or smar…The Internet of Things is a land of opportunity for believers and supporters of Smart Cities. Experience already shows that smartphones, smart appliances, wearables, sensors and actuators can be brought together to deliver advanced services like smart markets, smart parking, smart buildings or smart energy. But in order to do so in a complex, dynamic, rapidly changing and resource constrained environment, adapting fleets of devices to align with context fluctuations becomes a necessity. This paper describes the framework established to tackle the problem. It represents the dimensions for building Self-adaptive fleets for IoT applications, based on the foundations of the DSPL paradigm and the RE principles. The paper also allocates a model for each dimension of the framework, and through a preliminary proof of concept Smart Building example, confirms the usability of the proposal.
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  • Analysis of Publicly Available Business E-Data in Slovakia

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    sc 18(8): e2

    Authors:
    Romana Hricová, Stanislav Adamčík

    Abstract:
    The paper analyzes publicly available e-data that entrepreneurs need and use for their business in Slovakia. Today is not the problem of getting to the information, but getting to it as quickly as possible, the cheapest and, most importantly, getting it as accurately as possible. Although data has …The paper analyzes publicly available e-data that entrepreneurs need and use for their business in Slovakia. Today is not the problem of getting to the information, but getting to it as quickly as possible, the cheapest and, most importantly, getting it as accurately as possible. Although data has been published in various forms and public institutions in the past, a major shift has been made by launching the slovensko.digital platform. The aim of this initiative is to improve informatization in Slovakia. The ambition of the article is to point out what e-data is being provided today and what are the ways to use it.
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  • C-ABAC: An ABAC based Model for Collaboration in Multi-tenant Environment

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    sc 18(8): e3

    Authors:
    Mohamed Amine Madani, Mohammed Erradi, Yahya Benkaouz

    Abstract:
    Collaborative systems allow a group of users to collaborate through distributed platforms in order to perform a common task. Collaborators usually use cloud-based solutions to outsource their data and to benefit from the cloud capabilities. Ensuring access control in a cloud-based collaborative ses…Collaborative systems allow a group of users to collaborate through distributed platforms in order to perform a common task. Collaborators usually use cloud-based solutions to outsource their data and to benefit from the cloud capabilities. Ensuring access control in a cloud-based collaborative session is an important problem that should be addressed, especially in a multi-tenant configuration. In this paper, we present C-ABAC, a Collaboration Attributes Based Access Control model that ensures access control in multi-tenant cloud environments. C-ABAC supports the workflow concept, preserves the tenants autonomy in defining their local policies and preserves the confidentiality of the object attributes. The implementation of C-ABAC in the SwiftStack environment demonstrates the feasibility of the suggested model.
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Scope

Smart Cities are transforming our urban life with digital technologies, offering new citizen-centric public services, optimizing the usage of resources and reducing the impact of service provisioning on the environment. Cities are too big to ignore, they are at the core of our work and leisure live…

Smart Cities are transforming our urban life with digital technologies, offering new citizen-centric public services, optimizing the usage of resources and reducing the impact of service provisioning on the environment. Cities are too big to ignore, they are at the core of our work and leisure lives, hosting the majority of World's population, and the majority of its innovation infrastructure and assets.

Regarding key fundamental dynamics and mobility issues, many cities continue to grow in world-wide while demographic aging will also create pressure of the costs of running staff-intensive mobility infrastructure. It is necessary to improved performance in basic city management areas starting from smart and sustainable mobility, traffic and road networks, to transport systems, but also considering street cleaning to water management, to sustainable energy and affordable low carbon environments.

Generally, a smart city combines legacy networks and new communication architectures in order to achieve compatibility and interoperability among public administrations, operators, companies and population. Then, it goes beyond the use of ICT to provide new advanced services in diverse business and technological domains, such as urban transports, water supply, disposal facilities, lightning, heat buildings and so on. To this aim, the integration of information and communication systems, sensors and data analytics over different systems and infrastructures of a city is necessary.

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Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Applications for Smart Cities able to leverage Big-Data Applications, ICT devices used in Factory of the Future, HPC, Industrial Processes, Energy Efficiency Systems, Social Platforms, etc.
  • Building Trust-based communication and computi…

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Applications for Smart Cities able to leverage Big-Data Applications, ICT devices used in Factory of the Future, HPC, Industrial Processes, Energy Efficiency Systems, Social Platforms, etc.
  • Building Trust-based communication and computing systems for IoT and Clouds applications being Secure for Citizens
  • eHealth applications for Citizens.
  • Connecting in City Buildings for optimizing resources and utilities.
  • Software engineering methodology for the design of Smart Cities Systems
  • Energy Efficient and Green Software-defined Infrastructures aimed at Smart Cities facilities.
  • Re-allocation of resources and services (independently of their location) across distributed computing and geographically separated data storage and processing infrastructures. Inter-Cities along with Federation Services: availability, Disaster recovery, etc.
  • Federation of Services (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) aimed at Public Administrations
  • Service discovery in Smart Cities - device Discovery and Data Discovery.
  • Easy and Large Deployment and autonomic management of densely interconnected and decentralised Cloud, Networks and IoTs infrastructures aimed at Smart Cities.
  • Control Architectures/Network Programmability in Smart Cities aimed at mobility, traffic and road networks, transport systems, energy, economy, and so on.
  • ICT applications enabling Energy-aware, smart and sustainable mobility solutions for Smart Cities.
  • Verification/Debugging/ Auditing Tools for all Applications in Smart Cities Domains
  • Energy-aware and sustainable computing solutions for Smart Cities applications
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Indexing

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Editorial Board

  • Andrea Prati (University of Parma)
  • Antonio Celesti (Universitá degli Studi di Messina)
  • Antonio Jara (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland)
  • Bin Guo (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
  • Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa)
  • Dhananjay Singh (Hankuk Univers…
  • Andrea Prati (University of Parma)
  • Antonio Celesti (Universitá degli Studi di Messina)
  • Antonio Jara (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland)
  • Bin Guo (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
  • Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa)
  • Dhananjay Singh (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea)
  • Luca Foschini (University of Bologna)
  • Marco Zappatore (University of Salento)
  • Maria Fazio (Universitá degli Studi di Messina)
  • Philipp Leitner (University of Zurich)
  • Rajiv Ranjan (Newcastle University)
  • Yanmin Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
  • Mohd Abdul Ahad (Jamia Hamdard, India)
  • Sérgio Adriano Fernandes Lopes (University of Minho Portugal)
  • Gautami Tripathi (School of Engineering Sciences and technology, Jamia Hamdard, India)
  • Anand Nayyar (Duy Tan University, Viet Nam)
  • Yuanqing Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  • Nishu Gupta (Vaagdevi College of Engineering, India)
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Journal Blurb

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on applications for Smart Cities with leverage on big-data applications, ICT devices used in the factory of the future, HPC, industrial processes, energy efficiency systems, social platforms and mor…

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on applications for Smart Cities with leverage on big-data applications, ICT devices used in the factory of the future, HPC, industrial processes, energy efficiency systems, social platforms and more. The journal publishes research articles, review articles, commentaries, editorials, technical articles, and short communications with a quarterly frequency. Authors are not charged for article submission and processing.

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Publisher
EAI
ISSN
2518-3893
Volume
3
Published
2018-06-26