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Nicos Komninos is a researcher and author. His research interests are in two interrelated fields, (a) intelligent/smart cities, and (b) hybrid (cyber-physical) systems of innovation. He is a professor emeritus at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a master’s degree in Architecture-Engineering from Aristotle University, post-graduate studies in Semantics, and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Research from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (EHESS Paris). He has coordinated numerous research projects, participated in the design of science and technology parks, smart cities, and regional innovation strategies in most regions of Europe, and member of the group of experts for the OECD innovation strategy. He is the author of 180 publications, including thirteen books, on intelligent and smart cities, urban planning, innovation territories, and strategies. He is an associate editor and member of the editorial board in fifteen academic journals, subject editor of IET Smart Cities, and co-editor of Elsevier’s book series on smart cities. More at www.komninos.eu
The paper is a follow-up of a previous investigation and effort to develop the ontology of the smart city (Komninos, N., Bratsas, C., Kakderi, C., and Tsarchopoulos, P. "Smart city ontologies: Improving the effectiveness of smart city applications". Journal of Smart Cities, vol. 1(1), 1-17. https://www.komninos.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2015-Smart-City-Ontologies-Published.pdf). Since the publication of this article in 2015, research and literature on smart cities have evolved significantly, as have the technologies for digital spaces and applications that support city functions. These developments are reflected in the present form of the smart city ontology 2.0 we propose. It depicts the building blocks of the smart city ontology (technologies, structure, function, planning), and the object properties and data properties that connect structural blocks and classes. The aim of the SCO 2.0 is to provide a better understanding and description of the smart/intelligent city landscape; identify the main components and processes, the terms used to describe them, their definition and meaning; clarify key processes related to the integration of the different dimensions of the smart city, mainly the physical, social, and digital dimensions. The paper is accompanied by an owl file, developing the ontology through the editor Protégé.
Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Christina Kakderi. The Smart City Ontology 2.0: Assessing the Components and Interdependencies of City Smartness. 2021, 1 .
AMA StyleNicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori, Christina Kakderi. The Smart City Ontology 2.0: Assessing the Components and Interdependencies of City Smartness. . 2021; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Christina Kakderi. 2021. "The Smart City Ontology 2.0: Assessing the Components and Interdependencies of City Smartness." , no. : 1.
Intelligent cities or smart cities evolve bottom-up along with the digitisation and the creation of digital entities linked to human activities, physical space, and institutional settings of cities; but also, they progress top-down through smart city strategies and projects designed and implemented by public authorities. Yet, thirty-five years since the first use of the term “smart city” or “intelligent city” in the second half of the 1980s, and more than ten years of intense publications in this field, since 2009, there is still a great deal of fuzziness about the projects that make cities intelligent or smart. There is low awareness about the big differences between large, complex urban projects, such as ‘Zero Energy Districts’ or “Mobility-as-a-Service” and projects for automation of city infrastructures, such as smart city lighting, smart metering or finding a parking place. There is a widespread misconception that city intelligence or smartness, the core attribute of smart cities, can be achieved through automation of the city infrastructure. This paper focuses on projects that make cities intelligent or smart. Our intention is to show the complexity and effort needed to achieve this objective. It is an inquiry on projects and data from a large number of smart cities around the world. We analyse core properties of smart city projects, such as (a) interventions on the physical, social, and digital space of cities, (b) the relation to city sectors and ecosystems, (c) engagement of users and stakeholders in decision-making, and (c) impact through optimisation and innovation of city processes and routines. We discuss also projects we have designed and implemented in the framework of URENIO Research and ITI-CERTH. Our conclusions are two-fold. First, we propose a typology of smart city projects along 3 axes and 9 properties. Second, we argue that success and failure to achieve city smartness are mainly institutional. Most barriers to implementation are organisational, legal, and institutional. This can be explained by the social and institutional inertia of the urban system against new solutions, especially when innovation and radical change of existing routines take place. Change management should be a permanent companion of smart city projects implementation, and the modification of routines should be clearly defined and considered already at the design phase of projects.
Nicos Komninos; Ioannis Tsampoulatidis; Christina Kakderi; Spiros Nikolopoulos; Ioannis Kompatsiaris. Projects for Intelligent and Smart Cities: Technology and Innovation Transforming City Ecosystems. 2021, 1 .
AMA StyleNicos Komninos, Ioannis Tsampoulatidis, Christina Kakderi, Spiros Nikolopoulos, Ioannis Kompatsiaris. Projects for Intelligent and Smart Cities: Technology and Innovation Transforming City Ecosystems. . 2021; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicos Komninos; Ioannis Tsampoulatidis; Christina Kakderi; Spiros Nikolopoulos; Ioannis Kompatsiaris. 2021. "Projects for Intelligent and Smart Cities: Technology and Innovation Transforming City Ecosystems." , no. : 1.
Fundamental principles of modern cities and urban planning are challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the advantages of large city size, high density, mass transport, free use of public space, unrestricted individual mobility in cities. These principles shaped the development of cities and metropolitan areas for more than a century, but currently, there are signs that they have turned from advantage to liability. Cities Public authorities and private organisations responded to the COVID-19 crisis with a variety of policies and business practices. These countermeasures codify a valuable experience and can offer lessons about how cities can tackle another grand challenge, this of climate change. Do the measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis represent a temporal adjustment to the current health crisis? Or do they open new ways towards a new type of urban development more effective in times of environmental and health crises? We address these questions through literature review and three case studies that review policies and practices for the transformation of city ecosystems mostly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: (a) the central business district, (b) the transport ecosystem, and (c) the tourism–hospitality ecosystem. We assess whether the measures implemented in these ecosystems shape new policy and planning models for higher readiness of cities towards grand challenges, and how, based on this experience, cities should be organized to tackle the grand challenge of environmental sustainability and climate change.
Christina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Eleni Oikonomaki. Next City: Learning from Cities during COVID-19 to Tackle Climate Change. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3158 .
AMA StyleChristina Kakderi, Nicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori, Eleni Oikonomaki. Next City: Learning from Cities during COVID-19 to Tackle Climate Change. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3158.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Eleni Oikonomaki. 2021. "Next City: Learning from Cities during COVID-19 to Tackle Climate Change." Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3158.
Smart cities constitute a new urban paradigm and a hegemonic phenomenon in contemporary city development. The concept envisages a data-enhanced future and efficiency gains made possible by automation and innovation in city activities and utilities. However, the way smart cities are created brings about two weaknesses. First, there is strong compartmentation of solutions and systems, which are developing in vertical markets for energy, transport, governance, safety, etc., silos with little interoperability and sharing of resources. Second, there is a low impact, some increase in efficiency, some reduction in costs, time gained, some decrease in CO2 emissions. There is an important knowledge gap about developing cross-sector, high-impact smart city systems. This paper deals with these challenges and investigates a different direction in smart city design and efficiency. We focus on ‘Connected Intelligence Spaces’ created in smart city ecosystems, which (a) have physical, social, and digital dimensions; (b) work as systems of innovation enabling synergies between human, machine, and collective intelligence; and (c) improve efficiency and performance by innovating rather than optimizing city routines. The research hypothesis we assess is about a universal architecture of high impact smart city projects, due to underlying connected intelligence spaces and cyber-physical-social systems of innovation. We assess this hypothesis with empirical evidence from case studies related to smart city projects dealing with safety (Vision-Zero), transportation (MaaS), and energy (positive energy districts). We highlight the main elements of operation and how high efficiency is achieved across these verticals. We identify commonalities, common innovation functions, and associations between functions, allowing us to define a common architecture enabling innovation and high performance across smart city ecosystems.
Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Luca Mora; Anastasia Panori; Elena Sefertzi. Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces. Journal of the Knowledge Economy 2021, 1 -29.
AMA StyleNicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi, Luca Mora, Anastasia Panori, Elena Sefertzi. Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces. Journal of the Knowledge Economy. 2021; ():1-29.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Luca Mora; Anastasia Panori; Elena Sefertzi. 2021. "Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces." Journal of the Knowledge Economy , no. : 1-29.
Fundamental principles of modern cities and urban planning are challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the advantages of large city size, high density, mass transport, free use of public space, unrestricted individual mobility in cities. These principles shaped the development of cities and metropolitan areas for more than a century, but currently, there are signs that they have turned from advantage to liability. Cities Public authorities and private organisations responded to the COVID-19 crisis with a variety of policies and business practices. These countermeasures codify a valuable experience and can offer lessons about how cities can tackle another grand challenge, this of climate change. Do the measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis represent a temporal adjustment to the current health crisis? Or do they open new ways towards a new type of urban development more effective in times of environmental and health crises? We address these questions through literature review and three case studies that review policies and practices for the transformation of city ecosystems mostly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: (a) the central business district, (b) the transport ecosystem, and (c) the tourism-hospitality ecosystem. We assess whether the measures implemented in these ecosystems shape new policy and planning models for higher readiness of cities towards grand challenges. And how, based on this experience, cities should be organized to tackle the grand challenge of environmental sustainability and climate change.
Christina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Eleni Oikonomaki. Next City: Learning from Cities During COVID-19 to Tackle Climate Change. 2021, 1 .
AMA StyleChristina Kakderi, Nicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori, Eleni Oikonomaki. Next City: Learning from Cities During COVID-19 to Tackle Climate Change. . 2021; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Eleni Oikonomaki. 2021. "Next City: Learning from Cities During COVID-19 to Tackle Climate Change." , no. : 1.
The paper focuses on the design of urban digital transformation strategies. It builds upon the lessons learned from the Digital Cities Challenge initiative, developed by the European Commission, designed to empower European cities to design and implement digital transformation strategies for the uptake of advanced digital services and the smart growth of city ecosystems. We study three cities that participated in the Digital Cities Challenge—Sofia, Granada, and Kavala—and provide an overview of the strategy designs they adopted. The results indicate that beside significant differences in context, sectors, and ecosystems targeted at those cities, common features shape the design of their digital transformation strategies based on digital platforms, such as opening markets for e-services, enhancement of local infrastructures, improving digital skills, and innovation funding mechanisms. We argue that creating digital platforms for ecosystem building is an essential strategy of digital transformation as it can produce network effects and externalities in digital space, similar to those deriving from spatial proximity in physical space. As a result, both spatial and digital network effects lead the development of externalities that play a key role in the formation, expansion, and sustainability of ecosystems.
Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Antonio Collado; Ilektra Papadaki; Anastasia Panori. Digital Transformation of City Ecosystems: Platforms Shaping Engagement and Externalities across Vertical Markets. Journal of Urban Technology 2020, 28, 93 -114.
AMA StyleNicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi, Antonio Collado, Ilektra Papadaki, Anastasia Panori. Digital Transformation of City Ecosystems: Platforms Shaping Engagement and Externalities across Vertical Markets. Journal of Urban Technology. 2020; 28 (1-2):93-114.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Antonio Collado; Ilektra Papadaki; Anastasia Panori. 2020. "Digital Transformation of City Ecosystems: Platforms Shaping Engagement and Externalities across Vertical Markets." Journal of Urban Technology 28, no. 1-2: 93-114.
The paper negotiates two main questions of the methodology of EDP in Smart Specialisation. First is the granularity level of detail in the analysis and the assessment of dynamism of economic activities. We argue that NACE three-digit codes offer the best combination of homogeneity of statistics and sectoral studies. Still, all NACE three-digit codes are not cadets for discovering business opportunities and new innovation activities and therefore, further research for the selection of priority fields is necessary. Second question is about the collective nature of interventions and investments developed through EDP. We argue that business ecosystems that unite large number of enterprises may exceed the risk of priority investments for specific businesses and groups. The demarcation of investments in relation to platform-based ecosystems as well as of ecosystems which are developed on top of value chains is of particular importance. Both methodological principles which are proposed in the paper (selection of three-digit NACE code ecosystems and platforms based on functions/needs of such ecosystems) can complement the theoretical weaknesses that reasonably exist in terms of discovery and innovation.
Christina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Artemis Psaltoglou. Smart Specialisation 2.0: Driving Public Funds Towards Platforms and Ecosystems. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 68 -79.
AMA StyleChristina Kakderi, Nicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori, Artemis Psaltoglou. Smart Specialisation 2.0: Driving Public Funds Towards Platforms and Ecosystems. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():68-79.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Artemis Psaltoglou. 2020. "Smart Specialisation 2.0: Driving Public Funds Towards Platforms and Ecosystems." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 68-79.
Anastasia Panori; Christina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Katharina Fellnhofer; Alasdair Reid; Luca Mora. Smart systems of innovation for smart places: Challenges in deploying digital platforms for co-creation and data-intelligence. Land Use Policy 2020, 1 .
AMA StyleAnastasia Panori, Christina Kakderi, Nicos Komninos, Katharina Fellnhofer, Alasdair Reid, Luca Mora. Smart systems of innovation for smart places: Challenges in deploying digital platforms for co-creation and data-intelligence. Land Use Policy. 2020; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Panori; Christina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Katharina Fellnhofer; Alasdair Reid; Luca Mora. 2020. "Smart systems of innovation for smart places: Challenges in deploying digital platforms for co-creation and data-intelligence." Land Use Policy , no. : 1.
Anastasia Martzopoulou; Nicos Komninos. The Effect of Solar Energy on the EnvironmentalImpacts and Sustainability of Food Industry. Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management 2019, 7, 303 -321.
AMA StyleAnastasia Martzopoulou, Nicos Komninos. The Effect of Solar Energy on the EnvironmentalImpacts and Sustainability of Food Industry. Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management. 2019; 7 (3):303-321.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Martzopoulou; Nicos Komninos. 2019. "The Effect of Solar Energy on the EnvironmentalImpacts and Sustainability of Food Industry." Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management 7, no. 3: 303-321.
This chapter discusses the preconditions for the development of public smart city services by grounding their design on service-dominant logic. The aim is to pinpoint the critical aspects of the service-dominant approach in the public sector context and smart city development, and on that basis provide an analytical picture of how the instances of smart city development can potentially enhance the ability of public organizations to create public value within service-dominant logic. Methodologically, we rely on an ontological analysis that clarifies the core components of both service-dominant logic and the smart city concept. Our findings show that critical intersecting areas, which are vital in utilizing smart city tools in service-dominant logic-oriented public service development, include people’s involvement, knowledge function, smart services, and the service ecosystem. We assert that service design should be based on mechanisms that facilitate resource integration and user involvement within service ecosystems rather than on stand-alone solutions. Cyber-physical systems have a key role in such a process, especially regarding information-intensive services. The development of cyber-physical systems for public services at the core of the public service ecosystem provides a strategic tool for service transformation that opens up a horizon for a major advance in value co-creation in the public domain.
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko; Nicos Komninos. Smart Public Services: Using Smart City and Service Ontologies in Integrative Service Design. Smart Cities and Smart Governance 2019, 17 -47.
AMA StyleAri-Veikko Anttiroiko, Nicos Komninos. Smart Public Services: Using Smart City and Service Ontologies in Integrative Service Design. Smart Cities and Smart Governance. 2019; ():17-47.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAri-Veikko Anttiroiko; Nicos Komninos. 2019. "Smart Public Services: Using Smart City and Service Ontologies in Integrative Service Design." Smart Cities and Smart Governance , no. : 17-47.
The emergence of the cloud computing paradigm has found fertile ground in the smart cities discipline, especially with regards to its benefits both in terms of big data storage and analytic capabilities and in terms of smart city service provision. Over the past years we have noticed an abundance of publications on cloud computing; from government reports to corporate studies, all show the significant benefits of cloud computing and the opportunities presented by the migration of public/municipal services to the cloud. Despite the availability of information, the landscape with regard to cloud computing adoption is still quite blurry. This chapter aims to provide methodological guidance to public/city authorities on the use of and the actual steps towards taking up the cloud computing paradigm. More specifically, it offers a simple methodology in the form of a roadmap with the main roadblocks one can expect to encounter when migrating public services to the cloud, along with a set of recommendations that facilitate decision-making in various stages of this process. We also argue that cloud computing adoption should not be an isolated action of an organization (city authority/governmental agency), but part of a wider strategic model based on open innovation practices (the use of open source technologies for the cloud platform and applications, the use of open data, the adoption of user engagement methodologies etc.) as well as the use of innovative business models.
Christina Kakderi; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori. Smart Cities on the Cloud. Progress in IS 2018, 57 -80.
AMA StyleChristina Kakderi, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos, Nicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori. Smart Cities on the Cloud. Progress in IS. 2018; ():57-80.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristina Kakderi; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori. 2018. "Smart Cities on the Cloud." Progress in IS , no. : 57-80.
Nicos Komninos. Smart Cities. The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet 2018, 1 .
AMA StyleNicos Komninos. Smart Cities. The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet. 2018; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicos Komninos. 2018. "Smart Cities." The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet , no. : 1.
Regions in the European Union (EU) are called to design and implement Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3), as a prerequisite to receive funding for research and innovation from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). To facilitate and streamline this process, the European Commission (EC) has published a Guide to RIS3 and a handbook for implementing Smart Specialisation, providing a set of methodological steps on how to design a RIS3 strategy. Although these publications provide valuable resources to facilitate RIS3 design and implementation, their inputs are focused mostly on the methodological framework, without pointing out any operational directions that could support an undertaking of the proposed methodological tasks in a streamlined and user-friendly way. The Online-S3 project, funded under the Horizon 2020, tries to address this challenge, by developing an online platform for policy advice. This study explores the information links amongst a set of methodologies, across the six phases of RIS3 design process, highlighting underlying relationships in a logical manner, based on the information flows that are detected. The results reveal parts of the overall mechanism for RIS3 policy making processes, providing guidance to regional authorities and encouraging them to use additional methods throughout their RIS3 strategy-design process, that could be managed and delivered through online platforms and applications. This prepares the grounds for future, empirical investigations of this currently under-researched topic, which appears to be crucial for policy-makers.
Anastasia Panori; Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Katharina Fellnhofer. Smart Specialisation Strategies: An Online Platform for Strategy Design and Assessment. Inventive Computation and Information Technologies 2018, 3 -16.
AMA StyleAnastasia Panori, Nicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi, Katharina Fellnhofer. Smart Specialisation Strategies: An Online Platform for Strategy Design and Assessment. Inventive Computation and Information Technologies. 2018; ():3-16.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Panori; Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Katharina Fellnhofer. 2018. "Smart Specialisation Strategies: An Online Platform for Strategy Design and Assessment." Inventive Computation and Information Technologies , no. : 3-16.
In the theory of urban development, the evolutionary perspective is becoming dominant. Cities are understood as complex systems shaped by bottom-up processes with outcomes that are hard to foresee and plan for. This perspective is strengthened by the current turn towards smart cities and the intensive use of digital technologies to optimize urban ecosystems. This paper extends the evolutionary thinking and emerging dynamics of cities to smart city planning. It is based on recent efforts for a smart city strategy in Thessaloniki that enhances the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of the city. Taking advantage of opportunities offered by the IBM Smarter Cities Challenge, the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities, the World Bank, and the EU Horizon 2020 Program, Thessaloniki shaped a strategy for an inclusive economy, resilient infrastructure, participatory governance, and open data. This process, however, does not have the usual features of planning. It reveals the complex dimension of smart city planning as a synthesis of technologies, user engagement, and windows of opportunity, which are fuzzy at the start of the planning process. The evolutionary features of cities, which until now were ascribed to the working of markets, are now shaping the institutional aspects of planning for smart cities.
N. Komninos; C. Kakderi; A. Panori; P. Tsarchopoulos. Smart City Planning from an Evolutionary Perspective. Journal of Urban Technology 2017, 26, 3 -20.
AMA StyleN. Komninos, C. Kakderi, A. Panori, P. Tsarchopoulos. Smart City Planning from an Evolutionary Perspective. Journal of Urban Technology. 2017; 26 (2):3-20.
Chicago/Turabian StyleN. Komninos; C. Kakderi; A. Panori; P. Tsarchopoulos. 2017. "Smart City Planning from an Evolutionary Perspective." Journal of Urban Technology 26, no. 2: 3-20.
Purpose This paper investigates the potential contribution of smart city approaches and tools to sustainable urban development in the environment domain. Recent research has highlighted the need to explore the relation of smart and sustainable cities more systematically, focusing on practical applications that could enable a deeper understanding of the included domains, typologies and design concepts, and this paper aims to address this research gap. At the same time, it tries to identify whether these applications could contribute to the “zero vision” strategy, an extremely ambitious challenge within the field of smart cities. Design/methodology/approach This objective is pursued through an in-depth investigation of available open source and proprietary smart city applications related to environmental sustainability in urban environments. A total of 32 applications were detected through the Intelligent/Smart Cities Open Source (ICOS) community, a meta-repository for smart cities solutions. The applications are analyzed comparatively regarding (i) the environmental issue addressed, (ii) the associated mitigation strategies, (iii) the included innovation mechanism, (iv) the role of information and communication technologies and (v) the overall outcome. Findings The findings suggest that the smart and sustainable city landscape is extremely fragmented both on the policy and the technical levels. There is a host of unexplored opportunities toward smart sustainable development, many of which are still unknown. Similar findings are reached for all categories of environmental challenges in cities. Research limitations pertain to the analysis of a relatively small number of applications. The results can be used to inform policy making toward becoming more proactive and impactful both locally and globally. Given that smart city application market niches are also identified, they are also of special interest to developers, user communities and digital entrepreneurs. Originality/value The value added by this paper is two-fold. At the theoretical level, it offers a neat conceptual bridge between smart and sustainable cities debate. At the practical level, it identifies under-researched and under-exploited fields of smart city applications that could be opportunities to attain the “zero vision” objective.
Margarita Angelidou; Artemis Psaltoglou; Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos; Anastasia Panori. Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications. Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management 2017, 9, 146 -169.
AMA StyleMargarita Angelidou, Artemis Psaltoglou, Nicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos, Anastasia Panori. Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications. Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management. 2017; 9 (2):146-169.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMargarita Angelidou; Artemis Psaltoglou; Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos; Anastasia Panori. 2017. "Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications." Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management 9, no. 2: 146-169.
Since the emergence of cloud computing paradigm, there has been an increasing interest on the adoption of cloud computing from municipalities and city governments towards their effort to address complex urban problems. This paper explores the significant role that cloud computing can play in helping cities on their way to become smart. We focus on the STORM CLOUDS paradigm as a solution for municipalities everywhere in order to (i) deploy a portfolio of smart cities applications related to governance, economy and quality of life on a single cloud-based platform and (ii) use the platform and its accompanied tools to migrate their existing applications to the cloud environment. Besides the conclusions from the STORM experience, the paper closes with a number of research trends and future challenges that are expected to define the adoption of cloud computing from municipalities and city governments in the following years
Christina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos. Smart cities and cloud computing: lessons from the STORM CLOUDS experiment. Journal of Smart Cities 2016, 2, 1 .
AMA StyleChristina Kakderi, Nicos Komninos, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos. Smart cities and cloud computing: lessons from the STORM CLOUDS experiment. Journal of Smart Cities. 2016; 2 (1):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos. 2016. "Smart cities and cloud computing: lessons from the STORM CLOUDS experiment." Journal of Smart Cities 2, no. 1: 1.
The special issue “Smart Cities and Cloud Compu-ting” of the Journal of Smart Cities focuses on smart city solutions that are deployed over various types of cloud environment and discuss challenges and solu-tions related to the use of cloud computing, and main-ly the migration of smart city services to the Cloud.
Christina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos. Smart cities and cloud computing: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Smart Cities 2016, 2, 1 .
AMA StyleChristina Kakderi, Nicos Komninos, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos. Smart cities and cloud computing: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Smart Cities. 2016; 2 (1):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos. 2016. "Smart cities and cloud computing: Introduction to the special issue." Journal of Smart Cities 2, no. 1: 1.
This paper addresses the problem of low impact of smart city applications observed in the fields of energy and transport, which constitute high-priority domains for the development of smart cities. However, these are not the only fields where the impact of smart cities has been limited. The paper provides an explanation for the low impact of various individual applications of smart cities and discusses ways of improving their effectiveness. We argue that the impact of applications depends primarily on their ontology, and secondarily on smart technology and programming features. Consequently, we start by creating an overall ontology for the smart city, defining the building blocks of this ontology with respect to the most cited definitions of smart cities, and structuring this ontology with the Protégé 5.0 editor, defining entities, class hierarchy, object properties, and data type properties. We then analyze how the ontologies of a sample of smart city applications fit into the overall Smart City Ontology, the consistency between digital spaces, knowledge processes, city domains targeted by the applications, and the types of innovation that determine their impact. In conclusion, we underline the relationships between innovation and ontology, and discuss how we can improve the effectiveness of smart city applications, combining expert and user-driven ontology design with the integration and or-chestration of applications over platforms and larger city entities such as neighborhoods, districts, clusters, and sectors of city activities.
Nicos Komninos; Charalampos Bratsas; Christina Kakderi; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos. Smart City Ontologies: Improving the effectiveness of smart city applications. Journal of Smart Cities 2016, 1, 1 .
AMA StyleNicos Komninos, Charalampos Bratsas, Christina Kakderi, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos. Smart City Ontologies: Improving the effectiveness of smart city applications. Journal of Smart Cities. 2016; 1 (1):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicos Komninos; Charalampos Bratsas; Christina Kakderi; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos. 2016. "Smart City Ontologies: Improving the effectiveness of smart city applications." Journal of Smart Cities 1, no. 1: 1.
Nicos Komninos. Intelligent cities and the evolution toward technology-enhanced, global and user-driven territorial systems of innovation. Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation 2016, 187 -200.
AMA StyleNicos Komninos. Intelligent cities and the evolution toward technology-enhanced, global and user-driven territorial systems of innovation. Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation. 2016; ():187-200.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicos Komninos. 2016. "Intelligent cities and the evolution toward technology-enhanced, global and user-driven territorial systems of innovation." Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation , no. : 187-200.
This paper discusses the interface between innovation systems and digital systems. It is based on a literature review that examines how innovation and smart environments converge from the bottom up, and how innovation strategies and digital strategies are connected and shape a common set of objectives and actions for growth. Following an introduction which looks at the current outlook for growth, we focus on digital drivers of growth as outlined in various strands of the literature. We discuss the digital disruption of business practices, the use of digital tools and smart environments for innovation and new product development, the rise of cyber-physical infrastructures, and systems of innovation. We also examine how various types of innovation and digital strategies contribute to smart growth. In conclusion, we portray connectors and bridges between innovation and digital strategies, such as sector-specific smart environments, innovation over platforms, and digital solutions for collaborative product development.
Nicos Komninos. Smart environments and smart growth: connecting innovation strategies and digital growth strategies. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development 2016, 7, 240 .
AMA StyleNicos Komninos. Smart environments and smart growth: connecting innovation strategies and digital growth strategies. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development. 2016; 7 (3):240.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicos Komninos. 2016. "Smart environments and smart growth: connecting innovation strategies and digital growth strategies." International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development 7, no. 3: 240.