The Internet of Things (IoT) has attracted a lot of attention the last decade due to the unprecedented opportunities it provides for economic growth and for improving the quality of life of citizens. The advances in the IoT domain have been quite important and especially in the areas of IoT hardware, data and context extraction, service provisioning and service composition, cognition, interoper...

Smart government is growing concept in affairs and public administration today. The objective of this study to explore smart make the world rank government. This used official e-government data defined component government: Economic Growth, Policy Making, Citizen Engagement, Accountability, Interoperability, Key Enablers Innovation, Service Government Effectiveness.

A tremendous growth of the Internet over the past years together with the growing availability of wireless communication technologies in the wide, local and personal area, and the maturing of miniaturized Internet hardware technologies like tiny web servers has fertilized the emergence of “smart appliances”: wirelessly ad-hoc networked, mobile, autonomous special purpose computing devices, prov...

Thanks to their anonymity (pseudonymity) and lack of trusted intermediaries, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have created or stimulated growth in many businesses and communities. Unfortunately, some are criminal, e.g., money laundering, marketplaces for illicit goods, and ransomware. Next-generation cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum will include rich scripting languages in support of smart con...

Smart phones have been becoming popular and mobile users are increasingly relying on them to store and handle personal information. The intake of smart phone devices for email writing, online bank transactions growing with growth of the smartphone market and accessing other forms of sensitive content has lead to the emergence of a new and ever changing threat. However, recent studies also revea...

Electric power infrastructure is rapidly running up against oversized growth, scale and efficiency. Electricity production, distribution and consumption play a critical role in the sustainability of the planet and its natural resources. Smart Grids which enable two-way communication and monitoring between producers and end-users need novel computational algorithms for supporting generation of p...

Mobile communication networks face ever-increasing demands on their spectrum and infrastructure resources. Increased minutes of use, capacity-intensive data applications and the steady growth of worldwide mobile subscribers means that carriers will have to find effective ways to accommodate increased wireless traffic in their networks. Thus, the smart antennas system becomes capable to locate a...

One of the main issues in current cities is mobility. The unprecedented growth in urban mobility has led to multiple open challenges to be considered in the design of smart cities that improve the citizens' quality of life. There are several factors involved in the development of urban mobility applications as pollution monitoring, traffic congestion, and environmental conditions. One of the mo...

The paper focuses on the importance of robotics and artificial intelligence inside new urban contexts in which it is possible to consider enhance different dimensions quality life such as safety health, environmental quality, social connection civic participation. Smart technologies help cities meet challenges society, thus making them more livable, attractive responsive order plan improve city...