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Urbanization and knowledge economy have highly marked the new millennium. Urbanization brings new challenges which can be addressed by the knowledge economy, which opens up scientific and technical innovation opportunities. The enhancement of cities’ intelligence has heavily impacted city transformation and sustainable decision-making based on urban data knowledge extraction. This work is motivated by the strong demand for robust standardization efforts to steer and measure city performance and dynamics, given the growing tendency of conventional cities’ transformation into smart and resilient ones. This paper revises the earlier so-called “cityDNA” framework, which was designed to detect the interrelations between the six smart city dimensions, such that a city’s profile and capacities are recognized in a systematic manner. The updated framework implements the widely accepted smart city (ISO 37120:2018) standard, along with an adaptive Web service, which processes urban data and visualizes the city’s profile to facilitate decision-making. The proposed framework offers a solid benchmarking service, at which the value of crowdsourced data is exploited for the production of urban knowledge and city transformation empowerment. The proposed benchmarking approach is tested and validated through relevant case studies and a proof-of-concept scenario, in which open data and crowdsourced data are exploited. The outcomes revealed that cities should intensify their KPI-driven data production and exploitation along with a set of solid standards for cities to enable cities with customizable scenarios enriched with indicators that reflect each city’s vibrancy.
Vaia Moustaka; Antonios Maitis; Athena Vakali; Leonidas Anthopoulos. Urban Data Dynamics: A Systematic Benchmarking Framework to Integrate Crowdsourcing and Smart Cities’ Standardization. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8553 .
AMA StyleVaia Moustaka, Antonios Maitis, Athena Vakali, Leonidas Anthopoulos. Urban Data Dynamics: A Systematic Benchmarking Framework to Integrate Crowdsourcing and Smart Cities’ Standardization. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (15):8553.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVaia Moustaka; Antonios Maitis; Athena Vakali; Leonidas Anthopoulos. 2021. "Urban Data Dynamics: A Systematic Benchmarking Framework to Integrate Crowdsourcing and Smart Cities’ Standardization." Sustainability 13, no. 15: 8553.
The proliferation of social platforms and the enhanced connectivity have led people of different age groups, ethnicity, social or economic status to reveal a great deal about themselves online. Data collected from online social networks (OSN) provides social, economic, and cultural information which can be utilized by governments, policy makers, authorities and even commercial industries to better understand market trends and behavioral patterns, that can influence the individual dynamics through open data sources. OSN constitute a breeding ground for the spread of several risks and threats to privacy and security that affect participation and quality of life in smart cities. Although the aspects of privacy and security, and individuals' behavior in social networking are important for the successful development of smart cities, they have not been adequately discussed. To this end, this study aims to address this issue by revealing the risks, threats and individuals' behavior on OSN as an attempt to enhance privacy and security, and boost community's engagement in smart cities. Furthermore, a novel model which outlines the relationships between privacy and security threats, along with some effective countermeasures for the protection of OSN users in smart cities are proposed.
Vaia Moustaka; Zenonas Theodosiou; Athena Vakali; Anastasis Kounoudes; Leonidas G. Anthopoulos. Εnhancing social networking in smart cities: Privacy and security borderlines. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2018, 142, 285 -300.
AMA StyleVaia Moustaka, Zenonas Theodosiou, Athena Vakali, Anastasis Kounoudes, Leonidas G. Anthopoulos. Εnhancing social networking in smart cities: Privacy and security borderlines. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2018; 142 ():285-300.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVaia Moustaka; Zenonas Theodosiou; Athena Vakali; Anastasis Kounoudes; Leonidas G. Anthopoulos. 2018. "Εnhancing social networking in smart cities: Privacy and security borderlines." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 142, no. : 285-300.