Ecosystemic evolution feeded by smart systems / / Dino Giuli, editor.

• TeilnehmendeR: Giuli, Dino,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : MDPI AG - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 pages)

Information Society is advancing along a route of ecosystemic evolution. ICT and Internet advancements, together with the progression of the systemic approach for enhancement and application of Smart Systems, are grounding such an evolution. The needed approach is therefore expected to evolve by increasingly fitting into the basic requirements of a significant general enhancement of human and social well-being, within all spheres of life (public, private, professional). This implies enhancing and exploiting the net-living virtual space, to make it a virtuous beneficial integration of the real-life space. Meanwhile, contextual evolution of smart cities is aiming at strongly empowering that ecosystemic approach by enhancing and diffusing net-living benefits over our own lived territory, while also incisively targeting a new stable socio-economic local development, according to social, ecological, and economic sustainability requirements. This territorial focus matches with a new glocal vision, which enables a more effective diffusion of benefits in terms of well-being, thus moderating the current global vision primarily fed by a global-scale market development view. Basic technological advancements have thus to be pursued at the system-level. They include system architecting for virtualization of functions, data integration and sharing, flexible basic service composition, and end-service personalization viability, for the operation and interoperation of smart systems, supporting effective net-living advancements in all application fields. Increasing and basically mandatory importance must also be increasingly reserved for human-technical and social-technical factors, as well as to the associated need of empowering the cross-disciplinary approach for related research and innovation. The prospected eco-systemic impact also implies a social pro-active participation, as well as coping with possible negative effects of net-living in terms of social exclusion and isolation, which require incisive actions for a conformal socio-cultural development. In this concern, speed, continuity, and expected long-term duration of innovation processes, pushed by basic technological advancements, make ecosystemic requirements stricter. This evolution requires also a new approach, targeting development of the needed basic and vocational education for net-living, which is to be considered as an engine for the development of the related 'new living know-how', as well as of the conformal 'new making know-how'.

Table of Contents

About the Special Issue Editor v -- Dino Giuli -- Ecosystemic Evolution Fed by Smart Systems doi: 10.3390/fi10030028 1 -- Francesca Paradiso, Federica Paganelli, Dino Giuli and Samuele Capobianco Context-Based Energy Disaggregation in Smart Homes doi: 10.3390/fi8010004 4 -- Leonardo Angelini, Stefano Carrino, Omar Abou Khaled, Susie Riva-Mossman and Elena Mugellini -- Senior Living Lab: An Ecological Approach to Foster Social Innovation in an Ageing Society doi: 10.3390/fi8040050 25 -- Patrizia Marti, Carl Megens and Caroline Hummels -- Data-Enabled Design for Social Change: Two Case Studies doi: 10.3390/fi8040046 44 -- Nicola Lettieri -- Computational Social Science, the Evolution of Policy Design and Rule Making in Smart Societies doi: 10.3390/fi8020019 60 -- Gabriele Guidi, Roberto Miniati, Matteo Mazzola and Ernesto Iadanza Case Study: IBM Watson Analytics Cloud Platform as Analytics-as-a-Service System for Heart Failure Early Detection doi: 10.3390/fi8030032 77 -- Francesco Carrino, Elena Mugellini, Omar Abou Khaled, Nabil Ouerhani and Juergen Ehrensberger iNUIT: Internet of Things for Urban Innovation doi: 10.3390/fi8020018 93 Cristina Martelli -- A Point of View on New Education for Smart Citizenship doi: 10.3390/fi9010004 114 -- Barbara Martini and Federica Paganelli -- A Service-Oriented Approach for Dynamic Chaining of Virtual Network Functions over Multi-Provider Software-Defined Networks doi: 10.3390/fi8020024 131 -- Romano Fantacci and Dania Marabissi -- Cognitive Spectrum Sharing: An Enabling Wireless Communication Technology for a Wide -- Use of Smart Systems -- doi: 10.3390/fi8020023 152.