IJEGR - Special Issue Released on Smart Cities in Practice: Value Sources, Applications and Functionalities

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GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE

Special Issue on Smart Cities in Practice: Value Sources, Applications and
Functionalities

Leonidas Anthopoulos (Business School, TEI of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece),
Vishanth Weerakkody (Brunel Business School, Brunel University London,
Uxbridge, UK), Marijn Janssen (Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management,
Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands)

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ARTICLE 1

Using a Use Case Methodology and an Architecture Model for Describing Smart
City Functionalities

Marion Gottschalk (OFFIS e.V., Oldenburg, Germany), Mathias Uslar (OFFIS
e.V., Oldenburg, Germany)

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, high-energy consumption, or big garbage quantities.
The future or rather present city planning focuses on the concept of these
complex systems (alias smart city). Information technologies interconnect
smart city components and enable several smart city sub-systems like smart
grid, smart building, supply/waste management, smart traffic, smart
government etc. A definition of component functionalities and interfaces is
needed to demonstrate their interconnections and information flow.
Therefore, alternative techniques can be utilized to specify these both
component and system requirements.

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ARTICLE 2

Design of Interactional Decision Support Applications for E-Participation in
Smart Cities

Erich Ortner (Technum, Constance, Germany), Marco Mevius (HTWG-Konstanz,
Constance, Germany), Peter Wiedmann (Axon Ivy AG, Munich, Germany), Florian
Kurz (HTWG-Konstanz, Constance, Germany)

Nowadays, the number of human to application system interactions is
dramatically increasing. For instance, citizens interact with the help of
the internet to organize meetings spontaneously. Furthermore, standards such
as Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) and the Decision Modeling
Notation (DMN) allow the creation of graphical models to document the
(interaction) processes. Moreover, simulations and automations can be set up
to encounter new technical challenges. Smart Cities aim at enabling their
citizens to use these digital services. However, looking beyond technology,
there is still a significant lack of interaction and support between
"normal" citizens and the public administration. This article introduces an
approach, which describes the design of enhanced interactional applications
for decision support in Smart Cities based on Dialogical Logic process
patterns. The authors demonstrate the approach with the help of a use case
concerning a budgeting scenario as well as a summary and outlook on further
research.

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ARTICLE 3

A Location-Aware Architecture for an IoT-Based Smart Museum

Giuseppe Del Fiore (IDALab, Department of Innovation Engineering, University
of Salento, Lecce, Italy), Luca Mainetti (IDALab, Department of Innovation
Engineering, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy), Vincenzo Mighali (IDALab,
Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy),
Luigi Patrono (IDALab, Department of Innovation Engineering, University of
Salento, Lecce, Italy), Stefano Alletto (ImageLab, University of Modena and
Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy), Rita Cucchiara (ImageLab, University of
Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy), Giuseppe Serra (ImageLab,
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy)

The Internet of Things, whose main goal is to automatically predict users'
desires, can find very interesting opportunities in the art and culture
field, as the tourism is one of the main driving engines of the modern
society. Currently, the innovation process in this field is growing at a
slower pace, so the cultural heritage is a prerogative of a restricted
category of users. To address this issue, a significant technological
improvement is necessary in the culture-dedicated locations, which do not
usually allow the installation of hardware infrastructures. In this paper,
we design and validate a no-invasive indoor location-aware architecture able
to enhance the user experience in a museum. The system relies on the user's
smartphone and a wearable device (with image recognition and localization
capabilities) to automatically deliver personalized cultural contents
related to the observed artworks. The proposal was validated in the MUST
museum in Lecce (Italy).

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ARTICLE 4

What is the Source of Smart City Value?: A Business Model Analysis

Leonidas Anthopoulos (Business School, TEI of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece),
Panos Fitsilis (Business School, TEI of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece), Christos
Ziozias (Business School, TEI of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece)

Smart cities have attracted an increasing international scientific and
business attention and an enormous niche market is being evolved, which
engages almost all the business sectors. Being engaged in the smart city
market is not free-of-charge and corresponding investments are extensive,
while they usually concern innovation development and always demand careful
planning. However, until today it is not clear how the smart city creates
value to its stakeholders or simply how profit is being created. To this
end, this paper performs an investigation on the smart city business models
and utilizes decision making process with the contribution of smart city
experts in order to conclude on the most appropriate one. This paper's
findings demonstrate that business models that are followed in practice by
smart cities are different to the ones suggested in literature. Moreover,
the decision making processes that were followed showed that the optimal
choice is the ownership business model group and from its contents preferred
the Open Business Model (OBM), with the Municipal-Owned-Development (MOD) as
an alternative option.

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ARTICLE 5

A Unified Smart City Model (USCM) for Smart City Conceptualization and
Benchmarking

Leonidas Anthopoulos (Business School, TEI of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece),
Marijn Janssen (Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft
University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands), Vishanth Weerakkody (Brunel
Business School, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK)

Smart cities have attracted an extensive and emerging interest from both
science and industry with an increasing number of international examples
emerging from all over the world. However, despite the significant role that
smart cities can play to deal with recent urban challenges, the concept has
been being criticized for not being able to realize its potential and for
being a vendor hype. This paper reviews different conceptualization,
benchmarks and evaluations of the smart city concept. Eight different
classes of smart city conceptualization models have been discovered, which
structure the unified conceptualization model and concern smart city
facilities (i.e., energy, water, IoT etc.), services (i.e., health,
education etc.), governance, planning and management, architecture, data and
people. Benchmarking though is still ambiguous and different perspectives
are followed by the researchers that measure -and recently monitor- various
factors, which somehow exceed typical technological or urban
characteristics. This can be attributed to the broadness of the smart city
concept. This paper sheds light to parameters that can be measured and
controlled in an attempt to improve smart city potential and leaves space
for corresponding future research. More specifically, smart city progress,
local capacity, vulnerabilities for resilience and policy impact are only
some of the variants that scholars pay attention to measure and control.

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