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T1 - SoS-centric Middleware Services for Interoperability in Smart Cities Systems
AU - Lopes, Frederico
AU - Loss, Stefano
AU - Mendes, Altair
AU - Batista, Thais
AU - Lea, Rodger
N1 - © ACM, 2016. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in SmartCities '16: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Smart https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3009912.3009917
PY - 2016/12/12
Y1 - 2016/12/12
N2 - Modern cities are supported by many IT systems managed by distinct public and private agents. Such legacy systems are often incompatible since, in general, they use old, dependent and nonstandardised technologies. This results in an environment in which there is no interoperability among smart city systems, preventing richer and more interesting applications to be used by citizens, companies, and city administration. An alternative to solve the lack of interoperability is the adoption of a System-of- Systems (SoS) approach. A SoS is a set of independent and heterogeneous constituent systems that interoperate to accomplish a global mission. The collaboration among such constituent systems enables a SoS to offer new functionalities that cannot be provided by any of these systems working as individual entities. The goal of this paper is to propose SoS-centric middleware services to support the management and execution of SoS in Smart Cities environments in a dynamic, transparent and scalable way. The proposed services, once integrated into a smart city platform, support interoperability among different systems operating in a city. Moreover, this paper also presents a motivational case study to make it clear the issues that must be addressed when multiple independent systems are brought together to provide a new Smart City service or application.
AB - Modern cities are supported by many IT systems managed by distinct public and private agents. Such legacy systems are often incompatible since, in general, they use old, dependent and nonstandardised technologies. This results in an environment in which there is no interoperability among smart city systems, preventing richer and more interesting applications to be used by citizens, companies, and city administration. An alternative to solve the lack of interoperability is the adoption of a System-of- Systems (SoS) approach. A SoS is a set of independent and heterogeneous constituent systems that interoperate to accomplish a global mission. The collaboration among such constituent systems enables a SoS to offer new functionalities that cannot be provided by any of these systems working as individual entities. The goal of this paper is to propose SoS-centric middleware services to support the management and execution of SoS in Smart Cities environments in a dynamic, transparent and scalable way. The proposed services, once integrated into a smart city platform, support interoperability among different systems operating in a city. Moreover, this paper also presents a motivational case study to make it clear the issues that must be addressed when multiple independent systems are brought together to provide a new Smart City service or application.
KW - Interoperability
KW - Middleware
KW - Smart Cities
KW - System-of-Systems (SoS)
U2 - 10.1145/3009912.3009917
DO - 10.1145/3009912.3009917
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85009461106
T3 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Smart, SmartCities 2016
BT - SmartCities '16 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Smart
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
CY - New York
T2 - 2nd International Workshop on Smart Cities - People, Technology and Data, IWSC 2016
Y2 - 12 December 2016 through 16 December 2016
ER -