information and communication technology (ict) has transformed how we live our lives and the way we interact in different contexts. benefits of ict and its upcoming efficiencies (i.e. energy efficiency) are becoming the heart of many public services’ reforms which have influenced the time, distance and space concepts. at present, not only there is a lack of clarity about what high-quality ictba...

In course of the European project AVALON, highly innovative ontology-based services (Smart Services) for supporting collaboration in knowledge-intensive industrial innovation networks (Smart Networks) were defined and prototypically implemented. Due to the immanent complexity of the general innovation problem in networks, Smart Networks are facing multi-level (1) knowledge integration, (2) netw...

The main goal of the study is development of the classification framework of smart service attributes as a first step in developing methodology of smart services implementation for Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) maintenance. First, we analyze available definitions of the “smart services” concept and concepts related to it: smart services are based on the idea of co-creation of value and re...

renewable energy sources (res), especially wind power plants, have high priority of promotion in the energy policies worldwide. an increasing share of res and distributed generation (dg), should, as has been assumed, provide improvement in reliability of electricity delivery to the customers. paper presented here concentrates on electricity storage systems technologies and applications pinpoint...

Consumer adoption of Smart Phones is growing internationally at a phenomenal rate. Smart Phones integrate functionality that previously required numerous technological artifacts. Smart Phones present significant M-Commerce opportunities for all organisations, but such potential has yet to be realised. If such potential is to be realised, the ability of consumers to utilise a Smart Phone to enga...

Context-aware technologies can make e-learning services smarter and more efficient since context-aware services are based on the user's behavior. To add those technologies into existing e-learning services, a service architecture model is needed to transform the existing e-learning environment, which is situation-aware, into the environment that understands context as well. The context-awarenes...

This paper is to leverage familiarity with smart card application, i.e. understanding and practical experiences of implementing trustworthy smart card application, to uncover secret veil surrounding the SOA-Based Web Services, and further develop and implement effective strategies for achieving trustworthy Web Services. Aspects being compared, of smart card application and SOA-Based Web Service...

Creating security architectures and processes that directly interact with consumers, especially in consumer electronics, has to take into account usability, user-experience and skill level. Smart cards provide secure services, even in malicious environments, to end-users with a fairly straightforward limited usage pattern that even an ordinary user can easily deal with. The way the smart card i...

With the brilliant advance of ubiquitous technologies, it is possible to provide more smart and pervasive healthcare services in a smart home environment. Despite of these remarkable advances of technologies, there are few smart home-based personalized healthcare services which fully consider not only user’s current situation but also user’s social relationship. In this paper, we try to model c...

The concept of smart city was born to provide improved quality of life to citizens. The key idea is to integrate information system services of each domain, such as health, education, transportation, power grid etc., of the city to provide public services to citizens efficiently and ubiquitously. These expectations induce massive challenges and requirements. This research is aimed to highlight ...