Enabling Energy Smart Cities through Urban Sharing Ecosystems

Abstract In order to build real smart cities, heterogeneous data from different sources has to be properly collected, integrated and shared. In this paper, a real district scale example of urban sharing ecosystem based on coopetition is presented. This digital ecosystem enables data sharing that can be synergically applied to different sectors relevant to the urban context, e.g., energy and transportation, in order to create innovative solutions for energy monitoring, citizen engagement, and evaluation and monitoring at district and city level

Speaking a Common Language: A Conceptual Model for Describing Service-Oriented Systems

Abstract. The diffusion of service-oriented computing is today heavily influencing many software development and research activities. Despite this, service-oriented computing is a relatively new field, where many aspects still suffer from a lack of standardization. Also, the service-oriented approach is bringing together researchers from different communities or from organizations having developed their own solutions. This introduces the need for letting all these people communicate with each other using a common language and a common understanding of the technologies they are using or building. This paper proposes a conceptual model that describes actors, activities and entities involved in a service-oriented scenario and the relationships between them. While being created for a European project, the model is easily adaptable to address the needs of any other service-oriented initiative.

CHOReOS State of the Art, Baseline, and Beyond (D1.1)

The D1.1 deliverable clarifies baseline, progress, and state of the art that CHOReOS will address. For each of the first four CHOReOS work packages, WP1 to WP4, this deliverable gives a precise definition of the state of the art, an indication of the envisaged progress beyond the state of the art by CHOReOS and the baseline for its research