HCI policy and the smart city

While the idea of the ‘Smart City’ has attracted increasing attention from academia, industry, and government this interest has largely had a technical and technological focus. This paper identifies some of the important political and policy challenges facing the idea, the discourse, of a ‘smart city’ as a means to optimise HCI input into the ‘smart city’ debate. It then addresses that gap by detailing a research project that explored how experts in smart city research and development in the UK context responded to this policy challenge. Experts were asked questions regarding their prior experience with the “smart city”, their understandings of what it means for a city to be smart, and what policy potentials they've recognised in the smart city. The paper analyses and offers a synthesis of the responses collected throughout the research with the current policies concerning various smart city proximity, thereby providing a critical assessment of the values underlying the smart city. The paper aims to explore and present some of the policy possibilities for UK smart cities that are potentially useful for politicians, policy makers, planners, academics, and technology companies. I believe that these perspectives for policy development can be used to inform responsible development, spatially and socially inclusive technologies, and ultimately more resilient and liveable cities

Process management model aligned to the civil service law in public entities of Peru

El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado.In Peru, under the framework of the National Policy for the Modernization of public management by 2021, it is intended that state institutions enter the Civil Service Regime that seeks to continuously improve the public administration in order to avoid disorder in hiring, remuneration excessive, breaches of the rights of the servers, among others, which are currently causing delays and poor service to citizens. For this reason, a management model is proposed that allows integrating the guidelines set forth by the Law of Civil Service and the process improvement techniques that will allow the current situation to be identified, prioritizing which are the critical processes and thus being able to define an improvement plan integrating the different areas within the institution.Revisión por pare

Critical Analysis Of Approaches To Smart Economy

The article comprises the critical analysis of the theoretical aspects of the concept of smart economy. This article includes analysis of the structural components of smart city, the presentation of variety of definitions of smart economy, used in scientific articles and strategic documents, the identification of development factors and conditions, necessary for smart economy. The theoretical discussion of the main features of the smart economy, under the aspects of the increase of the long-term urban and national competitiveness seeks to answer the question – is the smart economy in the city is achievable in practice or is only the theoretical myth. This article is the first of the articles‘ complex, appointed to the research of the concept of smart economy and it‘s conditions measurement in Lithuania. This research is funded by the European Social Fund under the Global Grant measure

Integrated MicroRNA-mRNA analysis of human innate immune cells upon leishmania major infection

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EDGE4ALL: edge computing for smart city

This paper describes an Edge Computing based architecture for a complex scenario such as a Smart City. A Smart City can be de scribed (from a technical point of view) as thousands or even millions of small disposable devices (IoTs), each one capturing a physical aspect of the environment and endowed with wireless communication capability. Altogether, the generated data will feed intelligent algorithms allowing smart applications, typically running at the Cloud level. Since the Cloud has bandwidth limitations when trying to deal with such a number of connections, it becomes evident the need to introduce an intermediate stage - the Edge - between the devices and the Cloud. Furthermore, in a Smart City context, it is frequent to highlight information security issues that need to be addressed. So, this project aims to develop an Edge, which main requirements are: enforce IoTs security; be solid and robust enough to handle a huge number of logs/connections; efficiently transform low-level data into high-level information; offer a proper API to integrate with higher-level systems; and be easily scalable. Besides describing the design, this paper also presents some results supporting the decisions taken, and discuss some alternative solutions