Currently, we are experiencing a technological shift, which is expected to change the way
we program and interact with the world. Cloud computing and mobile computing are two …

The Internet of Things (IoT) boom has revolutionized almost every corner of people's daily
lives: healthcare, environment, transportation, manufacturing, supply chain, and so on. With …

This paper promotes the concept of smart and connected communities SCC, which is
evolving from the concept of smart cities. SCC are envisioned to address synergistically the …

In last two decades, various monitoring systems have been designed and deployed in urban
environments, toward the realization of the so called smart cities. Such systems are based …

Ubiquitous sensing enabled by Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies cuts across
many areas of modern day living. This offers the ability to measure, infer and understand …

Mobile phones or smartphones are rapidly becoming the central computer and
communication device in people's lives. Application delivery channels such as the Apple …

Crowdsourcing is traditionally defined as obtaining data or information by enlisting the
services of a (potentially large) number of people. However, due to recent innovations, this …

For the last decade the Smart City concept has been under development, fostered by the
growing urbanization of the world's population and the need to handle the challenges that …

Abstract'Wikification of GIS by the masses' is a phrase-term first coined by Kamel Boulos in
2005, two years earlier than Goodchild's term'Volunteered Geographic Information'. Six …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have emerged as an effective solution for a wide range of
applications. Most of the traditional WSN architectures consist of static nodes which are …