Software product line (SPL) is an approach that develops the family of similar software by maximizing the reusability of development artifacts. As devices have become smarter and diverse the role of middleware for managing such devices has become important and complicated in smart environments such as smart ship, smart home, and smart factory. In this kind of middleware interworking with variou...

Smart cards have opened up possibilities for many exciting applications. However, one problem with conventional smart cards is that they only have very limited computational power. As a result, it takes too long for a smart card to perform a single RSA signature operation in real time applications. Server-aided RSA signature computation protocols offer feasible solutions for this problem. The b...

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...

Accompanied by the deep development of big data technologies in urbanization, the smart city, which is supported by big data technologies, has revealed its potential gradually. As the core content of smart city, the smart information service becomes a frequent subject and direction of related researches. This paper will firstly investigate the information service demand of various groups of peo...

In everyday life we are often faced with the need to monitor the contents of some kind of container e.g. the contents of a medicine cabinet or a tool box. In this paper we show that this entire class of scenarios has similar features and properties. To remove the annoyance associated by the user with this monitoring task we propose a smart box concept. In this concept the monitoring is facilita...

The main goal of the study is development of the classification framework of smart service attributes as a first step in developing methodology of smart services implementation for Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) maintenance. First, we analyze available definitions of the “smart services” concept and concepts related to it: smart services are based on the idea of co-creation of value and re...

Smart monitoring of seniors behavioural patterns and more specifically activities of daily living have attracted immense research interest in recent years. Development of smart decision support systems to support the promotion of health smart homes has also emerged taking advantage of the plethora of smart, inexpensive and unobtrusive monitoring sensors, devices and software tools. To this end,...

The Smart TV is becoming increasingly popular amongst consumers. Many consumers use a Smart TV to gain quick access to the Internet including video on demand, social networking and instant messaging. Most Smart TVs also provide capabilities to connect with external devices such as a USB flash drive, a mobile phone etc. All of these features make a Smart TV a potentially rich source of informati...

This paper provides an exploratory dimension to the current smart city discussion by regarding the smart city as a heterotopia space – a space of otherness. By adopting a Foucauldian approach, this paper briefly describes the ‘discursive formation’ of the smart city by analysing its ‘surfaces of emergence’, ‘authorities of delimitation’, and ‘grids of specification’, in order to capture the sma...

The smart grid refers to next generation power grids, with multi-directional flows of electricity and information to make a wide distributed network. Through smart grid, the power system becomes smart by communicating, sensing, control and applying intelligence. For ideal system, the smart grid technologies are more compatible to permits many functions which can optimize with the combination of...