POPEYE: providing collaborative services for ad hoc and spontaneous communities

Abstract

Next generation collaborative systems will offer mobile users seamless and natural collaboration amongst a diversity of agents, within distributed, knowledge-rich and virtualized working environments. This ambitious goal faces numerous challenges from the underlying communication infrastructure to the high level application services, with the aim to provide services with the appropriate quality (such as persistence, synchronization, and security). Most currently available tools supporting collaboration address either rather traditional and rigid intra-organizational collaboration scenarios or, at the opposite, completely free and unstructured open communities's interactions. Emerging dynamic, flexible and ad hoc collaboration schemes are hardly or not supported at all. The POPEYE framework offers collaborative services for applications that aim to enable spontaneous collaboration over P2P wireless ad hoc groups, where fixed infrastructure is not a prerequisite, where virtual communities can emerge spontaneously and share data with the appropriate quality of service for business applications (persistence, synchronization, security, etc.).

Flying high: a human perspective of unmanned aerial systems in future cities

“…Whilst intelligent systems and autonomy are seen as key technology drivers within smart city concepts, the use of unmanned systems are beginning to offer solutions to many service-orientated activities within our cities. For example, the use of autonomous vehicles for refuse collection (Ferri et al 2011), public transportation services (Shut and Kasyanik 2013), freight delivery (Boysen, Schwerdfeger, and Weidinger 2018) and even working collaboratively with humans in emergency scenarios (Blaya et al 2009). These are a small selection of autonomous services being tested within cities.…”