The Internet of things (IoT) is a network of smart objects that bridges the gap between the physical and the digital world. The prevalence of IoT leads towards a new digital ecosystem for building novel applications and services. However, heterogeneity in devices, technologies and standards are causing to impede the widespread adoption of IoT. Advances in embedded service oriented architecture ...

During recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the potential opportunities that can be attained with the use of smart devices in order to gather data or automate processes. This type of communications between devices with minimal human intervention is referred to as Machineto-machine (M2M) communications that can be applied to optimize resources and improve service delivery appli...

Compared with the conventional industrial product–service system, smart service ecosystem (SISE) mentioned in this study contains more activity according to characteristics of context, participation various stakeholders and interconnected technologies. This proposes a detailed modularization design framework for SISE, which can be referenced contexts. Firstly, context-based identification bluep...

The increasing number of smart phones presents a significant opportunity for the development of m-payment services. Despite the predicted success of m-payment, the market remains immature in most countries. This can be explained by the lack of agreement on standards and business models for all stakeholders in m-payment ecosystem. In this paper, the STOF business model framework is employed to a...

Smart cities and digital democracy have begun to converge around mobile computing, enabling, web services, and different operational and shared databases to create new opportunities for civic engagement for concerned citizens as well as new efficiencies for public services provided by local government. While many of these projects remain siloed to specific departments of local government, when ...

The Internet of Things allows things in the world to be connected to each other and enables them to automate daily tasks without human intervention, eventually building smart spaces. This article demonstrates a prototype service based on the Internet of Things, TTEO (Things Talk to Each Other). We present the full details on the system architecture and the software platforms for IoT servers and...

Despite the increasing importance of data and information quality, current research related to Big Data quality is still limited. It is particularly unknown how to apply previous data quality models to Big Data. In this paper we review Big Data quality research from several perspectives and apply a known quality model with its elements of conformance to specification and design in the context o...

Clouds have considerably changed the design and provisioning of modern ICT applications creating ecosystems of services that ease and simplify the related technical and business processes. However, the above mainly refers to the private sector with the solutions targeting the public sector and cities to be few and also limited in terms of capabilities and acceptance. In this paper we present an...

At date, there is no standardized definition of what a smart city is, in spite many apply to propose a definition that fit with their offer, subsuming the whole of the city in one of its functions (smart grid, smart mobility...). Considering the smart cities as an ecosystem, that is to say a city that has systemic autopoeitic properties that are more than the sum of its parts, we develop an app...

With the spreading of sensors networks, the management of business reality has been progressively changed exploiting the inherent features of the future IoT and smart objects. Today’s enterprises need to become self-aware not only in terms of their networked ecosystem but also in face of their inner sub-systems and devices. Indeed, the integration of service and event technology, smart agents a...