Careless usage of the term smart in today's world leads to wondering whether it means
anything beyond involving a currently impressive application of IT. This paper characterizes …

Smart service integrates digital and physical competencies for automated service delivery in
smart service systems to co-create value. Smart services envelop digital services delivered …

Deployment of embedded technologies is increasingly being examined in industrial supply
chains as a means for improving efficiency through greater control over purchase orders …

Over the last half century," smartness"—the drive for ubiquitous computing—has become a
mandate: a new mode of managing and governing politics, economics, and the …

Infrastructure can mean several things and has been defined in several ways. It could refer
to the fundamental systems and facilities that an organization, city, or country needs to …

Enterprises and governments are focusing their efforts on reducing the gap between the
physical and the digital world to address various challenges. This digital transformation is …

We are approaching the tipping point in the development of technologies that promise to
enable an era of smart everything (cities, cars, buildings, etc.). Concurrently, service systems …

Artificial Intelligence has changed significantly in recent years and many new resources and
approaches are now available to explore and implement this important technology …

Computing is a critical driving force in the development of human civilization. In recent years,
we have witnessed the emergence of intelligent computing, a new computing paradigm that …

This book reveals the general laws of the theory of smart systems with the help of a very
powerful and expressive language of algebraic formalization. It also shows how this …