Emergence and Ubiquity in the Smart Cities

Abstract

This paper aims to add two concepts to the term of Smart City, ubiquity and emergence. The first term used recently in computer science to describe the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in all areas of society, being the basis of two new research areas that currently have great interest, called the Internet of Things and smart environments. The second term, widely used by some sciences (biology, theology, etc.) to describe the behavior and dynamics that occur in the real phenomena in their areas. In this paper, we analyze their contributions to help to design cities more autonomous, with more capacities of self-management and adaptation.

Performance analysis of the ubiquitous and emergent properties of an autonomic reflective middleware for smart cities

“…This architecture was defined in a general way in [2]. In the present work is detailed the description of the MiSCi architecture, as well as is carried out one analysis of its Ubiquitous and Emergent capabilities, which are fundamental properties in a smart city [3]. Particularly, we evaluate the emergent and ubiquitous performance of the MiSCi platform in several case studies, in order to test its capacity to sense the environment, to reason, and execute a solution in an independent, proactive, contextaware and intelligent way, through emergent ontologies arising from the dynamics of the moment.…”

“…In specific, this study aims to analysis the emerging and ubiquitous capabilities of MiSCi, through intelligent agents that must adapt to the existing dynamism in a city for ubiquitously responding to the requirements of citizens, by using emerging ontologies that allow not only adapting to the context of the moment and in real-time, but also responding to unforeseen situations [3]. For example, in the vehicular system of a smart city, a meta-ontology can handle generic concepts about transport media, routes, etc.…”