DocumentCode
1964876
Title
Collective awareness and action in urban superorganisms
Author
Bicocchi, Nicola ; Fontana, Damiano ; Mamei, Marco ; Zambonelli, Franco
Author_Institution
Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
fYear
2013
fDate
9-13 June 2013
Firstpage
194
Lastpage
198
Abstract
Future urban scenarios will be characterized by the close integration of ICT devices and humans. Citizens using their own capabilities integrated with ICT technologies could collaboratively constitute a large-scale socio-technical superorganism to support collective urban awareness and activities. This position paper, with the help of a representative case study, identifies the key challenges for future urban superorganisms and proposes a two-tier architecture to support their development.
Keywords
middleware; socio-economic effects; ubiquitous computing; ICT devices; ICT technologies; collective urban awareness; large-scale socio-technical superorganism; urban superorganisms; Cities and towns; Computer architecture; Middleware; Robot sensing systems; Social network services; Urban areas; Cyber-Physical Convergence; Middleware; Pervasive Computing; Self-Organization;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Communications Workshops (ICC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Budapest
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICCW.2013.6649227
Filename
6649227
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