Special Issue on Smart Applications for Smart Cities - New Approaches to Innovation: Guest Editors' Introduction

Guest editors' introduction: IT in Smart Cities

Smart Cities and the Future Internet: Innovation ecosystems of embedded spatial intelligence

Intelligent or smart cities rely on collaboration networks among human communities, innovation ecosystems, and digital infrastructure, applications and e-services, which enable the urban challenges of competitiveness, sustainability and inclusion to be addressed more efficiently. This urban paradigm is characterized by continuous transformation, fuelled by evolutions in innovation ecosystems, b...

Sensors and Actuators in Smart Cities

With the city, from its earliest emergence in the Near East between 4500 and 3100 BCE, came a wide range of new discoveries and inventions, from synthetic materials to wheeled vehicles. Through its dense population, irrigation, social continuity and physical security, emerged civil engineering, monumental construction, sculpture, mathematics, arts and law. Today, there is an enormous set of ide...

The Internet of Things Revolution

......Welcome to the November/ December 2016 special issue on the Internet of Things. The IoT revolution is happening at an unprecedented pace. New devices are emerging every day that have embedded electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity. All of these devices collect and exchange data. The widespread connectivity among these intelligent devices has the potential to t...

Special Issue on Innovation through Open Data - A Review of the State-of-the-Art and an Emerging Research Agenda: Guest Editors' Introduction

Anneke Zuiderwijk Natalie Helbig J. Ramón Gil-García Marijn Janssen Special Issue on Innovation through Open Data A Review of the State-of-the-Art and an Emerging Research Agenda: Guest Editors’ Introduction Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research ISSN 0718–1876 Electronic Version VOL 9 / ISSUE 2 / MAY 2014 / I-XIII © 2014 Universidad de Talca Chile This paper is availab...