The Internet of Things (IoT) envisions a world-wide, interconnected network of smart
physical entities. These physical entities generate a large amount of data in operation, and …

With more and more data generated, it has become a big challenge for traditional
architectures and infrastructures to process large amounts of data within an acceptable time …

The emergence of smart cities aims at mitigating the challenges raised due to the
continuous urbanization development and increasing population density in cities. To face …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is set to become one of the key technological developments of
our times provided we are able to realize its full potential. The number of objects connected …

Provides the foundations and principles needed for addressing the various challenges of
developing smart cities Smart cities are emerging as a priority for research and development …

The integration of things' data on the Web and Web linking for things' description and
discovery is leading the way towards smart Cyber–Physical Systems (CPS). The data …

Summary The Internet of things (IoT) is emerging as the next big wave of digital presence for
billions of devices on the Internet. Smart cities are a practical manifestation of IoT, with the …

Understanding crowd mobility behaviors would be a key enabler for crowd management in
smart cities, benefiting various sectors such as public safety, tourism and transportation. This …

In mobile crowd-sensing systems, the value of crowd-sensed big data can be increased by
incentivizing the users appropriately. Since data acquisition is participatory, crowd-sensing …

Humans are blessed with the intelligence to create links, develop semantic metaphors and
models for reasoning; construct rules for decision making; and to form bounded loops for …