Purpose – The concept of smart city is getting more and more relevant for both academics and policy makers. Despite this, there is still confusion on what a smart city is and several similar terms are often used interchangeably. This paper aims at clarifying the meaning of the word “smart” in the context of cities and to identify the main dimensions and elements characterizing a smart city. Fur...

The development of complex software and hardware systems has increased in recent years. One reason is the continuous development in information and communication technologies sectors that enable a smooth and seamless connection of single components or systems. Another reason is the changed way of life, e.g. urbanization leads to new challenges in city planning to deal with large crowds, highene...

“Smart pricing” has been the goal of the networking research community and the telecommunications industry for decades. Yet it has also proved remarkably hard to achieve. This paper presents a brief overview of telecommunications economics and technology, and the major changes that are taking place. Special emphasis is placed on the many popular but harmful notions that continue to lead this in...

Requirements: • The situations in which users perform their activities in urban spaces are characterized by various types of context. • The same piece of information may have different levels of significance for people acting in specific roles. People in specific situations Relevant Information The ambulance approaching to the incident spot An traffic alert The ambulance engaged in the rescue a...

This paper explores the substantial effect that the critical understanding and techno-political consideration of data are having in some smart city strategies. Particularly, the paper presents some results of a comparative study of four cases of smart city transitions: Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao. Likewise, considering how relevant the city-regional path-dependency is in each territ...

TERENCE is an FP7 ICT European project, highly multidisciplinary, that is developing an adaptive learning system for supporting poor comprehenders and their educators. The paper describes the automatic smart games generation process in TERENCE, motivates the need for a manual revision and describes it in detail. The paper thus provides a thorough insight in understanding the quality level of th...

Although various methods of procedurally generating cities have been proposed in recent years, the problem remains that a user desiring a city from a particular time period or country would have to make time-consuming modifications to an already existing engine to achieve acceptable results. This paper proposes a set of programmable elements that can be adjusted to accommodate for buildings fro...

South African communities are constantly being developed through new ICT projects which are initiated by individuals, government and private organisations. The problem with these developments is that they are implemented in isolation. This isolation causes limited sharing of resources, duplication, poor-governance of the resources and in worse-case scenarios, failure of project initiatives. Thi...

Technopark is a union of companies called residents that implement innovation activities. Development of the competence management system for technoparks is currently a relevant task. Such system allows automating the process of resident’s search that can satisfy potential customer tasks. The paper presents a smart space-based approach for competence management system development and implementa...