Smart-M3 is an open-source platform that provides the multi-agent distributed application with the shared view of dynamic knowledge and services in ubiquitous computing environments. Smart-M3 semantic information broker maintains smart space in low-level terms of triples, based on resource description framework (RDF). Smart-M3 application consists of agents (also known as Smart-M3 knowledge pro...

In the European Union, Member States and their regions are responsible for planning, funding and administration of public services, which should be based also on smart city tools. How smart is a city could be evaluated also by its ability to produce favorable conditions to get urban operators actively involved into spatial innovation dynamics, also to develop the innovative public logistics net...

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 ...

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...

Web-based services have become a major commodity. As an increasing number of ISPs make available an even more increasing number of remote services, security becomes a major concern in order to accomplish a fair exchange of commodities in insecure environments. An exchange of services, in order to be fair and secure, usually involves the service provider, the service requestor and a trusted thir...

abstract following the advances in mobile communication and information technology, smart phones have been used in a wide variety of commercial, social, entertainment, file sharing and health transactions and applications. the current procedures in healthcare environment for patient registration, appointment scheduling and payment are time consuming and somehow tiresome. traditionally, patients...

Background: The notion of smart city has grown popular over the past few years. It embraces several dimensions depending on the meaning of the word “smart” and benefits from innovative applications of new kinds of information and communications technology to support communal sharing. Methods: By relying on prior literature, this paper proposes a conceptual framework with three dimensions: (1) h...