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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Communications Workshops (ICC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Budapest
DOI :
10.1109/ICCW.2013.6649227
