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Lecture notes in intelligent transportation and infrastructure, Oct 10, 2018

Smart Cities Strategies are designed to mitigate one’s city problems and transform it into a smar... more Smart Cities Strategies are designed to mitigate one’s city problems and transform it into a smart one. This transformation is repeatedly reused by cities around the world. The complexity of the multi-disciplinary domain of smart cities renders this transformation is very hard. Unless, it is done with the help of experts in the domain. To facilitate this transformational process, this paper relies on the definition of design process of smart cities strategies and on the use of ontologies as a proven formalism to represent knowledge and expertise from experts, more specifically well-designed Ontology Design Patterns (ODP). The use of ODPs seems to be a promising solution that drives the process of cities transformation. The definition of the design process and of the Ontology Design Patterns is guided by a literature review on smart cities strategies. A web-based platform is then used to provide a common space for stakeholders to communicate and propose transformational strategies based on ODPs. The proposed solution is then validated by a use case related to educational domain in the city of Sousse, Tunisia.

Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Edition 2, 2019

Smart Cities Strategies are designed to mitigate one’s city problems and transform it into a smar... more Smart Cities Strategies are designed to mitigate one’s city problems and transform it into a smart one. This transformation is repeatedly reused by cities around the world. The complexity of the multi-disciplinary domain of smart cities renders this transformation is very hard. Unless, it is done with the help of experts in the domain. To facilitate this transformational process, this paper relies on the definition of design process of smart cities strategies and on the use of ontologies as a proven formalism to represent knowledge and expertise from experts, more specifically well-designed Ontology Design Patterns (ODP). The use of ODPs seems to be a promising solution that drives the process of cities transformation. The definition of the design process and of the Ontology Design Patterns is guided by a literature review on smart cities strategies. A web-based platform is then used to provide a common space for stakeholders to communicate and propose transformational strategies ba...

Recepción: 15-03-2015 Revisión: 04-05-2015 Aceptación: 14-08-2015 Publicación: 01-12-2015 IMS LD;... more Recepción: 15-03-2015 Revisión: 04-05-2015 Aceptación: 14-08-2015 Publicación: 01-12-2015 IMS LD; LOM; Experience API; Internet de las cosas; objetos inteligentes de aprendizaje; ambiente inteligente de aprendizaje. IMS LD; LOM; Experience API; Internet of Things; smart objects; smart learning objects; smart learning environment. Nowadays, learning is more and more taking place anywhere and anytime. This implies that e-learning environments are expanded from only virtual learning environments to both virtual and physical ones. Thanks to the evolution of Internet, ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and Internet of Things, new learning scenarios could be experienced by learners either individually or collaboratively. These learning scenarios are Pervasive in such a way that they allow to mix virtual and physical learning environments as well. They are therefore characterized by possible interactions of the learner with the physical environment, the Learner’s contextual dat...

Tunisia suffers from economic, social, and environmental issues. To mitigate those issues a Digit... more Tunisia suffers from economic, social, and environmental issues. To mitigate those issues a Digital Tunisia 2020 strategic development plan has been adopted. It aims to transform Tunisia to an international economic hub. It is composed of strategic directions, namely infrastructure, e-Gov, e-business, and Smart Tunisia. We focus on the description of e-Gov strategic direction, especially the Smart Gov 2020 Project. We compare between the planned actions and the implemented ones to distinguish the theory from the reality. Smart Tunisia is in its infancy, and many efforts should be done to become competitive to successful smart cities such as Amsterdam and Barcelona.

Smart city initiates the promise to address current problems of climate change, fossil fuels, and... more Smart city initiates the promise to address current problems of climate change, fossil fuels, and others. Decision makers call for innovative strategies to transform cities to smart ones. The transformational process to smart cities is hard, complex, and repetitive. We propose a generalized development process of smart city strategies as a support to the different stakeholders and which is validated with examples of smart city initiatives. In addition, a web-based platform is proposed for strategy formulation, sharing, and simulation. It allows stakeholders to communicate, design, and share strategies for smart city development and it is based on ontologies for a formal design and representation of strategies. A group of stakeholders, especially researchers and decision makers, test the proposed framework in a case of strategy formulation related to educational domain in a Tunisian city. They also evaluate the framework. The preliminary results of the use of the framework show that ...

Introduction Advances in mobile devices and related technologies are increasingly allowing the em... more Introduction Advances in mobile devices and related technologies are increasingly allowing the emergence of new applications. However, the very changing characteristics of mobile devices and their surrounding environment may lead to undesired and unpredictable situations preventing the user to use required services at a given time. Moreover, even though those characteristics may still unchanged, the user's mobility or her disabilities implies new or different situations and activities requiring new supporting services or adaptation of existing ones (Conde et al., 2009). For instance, during a common day life, the user may experience activities within which she is required to communicate and use domain specific expressions. She may be required to speak in a different language than her native or also experience strong communication problems and can't be aware of her surrounding environment (Massaro, 2004). Acquiring new communication skills in formal or informal way by making ...

Smart Cities Strategies are designed to mitigate one's city problems and transform it into a ... more Smart Cities Strategies are designed to mitigate one's city problems and transform it into a smart one. This transformation is repeatedly reused by cities around the world. The complexity of the multi-disciplinary domain of smart cities renders this transformation is very hard. Unless, it is done with the help of experts in the domain. To facilitate this transformational process, this paper relies on the definition of design process of smart cities strategies and on the use of ontologies as a proven formalism to represent knowledge and expertise from experts, more specifically well-designed Ontology Design Patterns (ODP). The use of ODPs seems to be a promising solution that drives the process of cities transformation. The definition of the design process and of the Ontology Design Patterns is guided by a literature review on smart cities strategies. A web-based platform is then used to provide a common space for stakeholders to communicate and propose transformational strategie...

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2016

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development

Lecture notes in intelligent transportation and infrastructure, Oct 10, 2018

Smart Cities Strategies are designed to mitigate one’s city problems and transform it into a smar... more Smart Cities Strategies are designed to mitigate one’s city problems and transform it into a smart one. This transformation is repeatedly reused by cities around the world. The complexity of the multi-disciplinary domain of smart cities renders this transformation is very hard. Unless, it is done with the help of experts in the domain. To facilitate this transformational process, this paper relies on the definition of design process of smart cities strategies and on the use of ontologies as a proven formalism to represent knowledge and expertise from experts, more specifically well-designed Ontology Design Patterns (ODP). The use of ODPs seems to be a promising solution that drives the process of cities transformation. The definition of the design process and of the Ontology Design Patterns is guided by a literature review on smart cities strategies. A web-based platform is then used to provide a common space for stakeholders to communicate and propose transformational strategies based on ODPs. The proposed solution is then validated by a use case related to educational domain in the city of Sousse, Tunisia.

Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Edition 2, 2019

Smart Cities Strategies are designed to mitigate one’s city problems and transform it into a smar... more Smart Cities Strategies are designed to mitigate one’s city problems and transform it into a smart one. This transformation is repeatedly reused by cities around the world. The complexity of the multi-disciplinary domain of smart cities renders this transformation is very hard. Unless, it is done with the help of experts in the domain. To facilitate this transformational process, this paper relies on the definition of design process of smart cities strategies and on the use of ontologies as a proven formalism to represent knowledge and expertise from experts, more specifically well-designed Ontology Design Patterns (ODP). The use of ODPs seems to be a promising solution that drives the process of cities transformation. The definition of the design process and of the Ontology Design Patterns is guided by a literature review on smart cities strategies. A web-based platform is then used to provide a common space for stakeholders to communicate and propose transformational strategies ba...

Recepción: 15-03-2015 Revisión: 04-05-2015 Aceptación: 14-08-2015 Publicación: 01-12-2015 IMS LD;... more Recepción: 15-03-2015 Revisión: 04-05-2015 Aceptación: 14-08-2015 Publicación: 01-12-2015 IMS LD; LOM; Experience API; Internet de las cosas; objetos inteligentes de aprendizaje; ambiente inteligente de aprendizaje. IMS LD; LOM; Experience API; Internet of Things; smart objects; smart learning objects; smart learning environment. Nowadays, learning is more and more taking place anywhere and anytime. This implies that e-learning environments are expanded from only virtual learning environments to both virtual and physical ones. Thanks to the evolution of Internet, ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and Internet of Things, new learning scenarios could be experienced by learners either individually or collaboratively. These learning scenarios are Pervasive in such a way that they allow to mix virtual and physical learning environments as well. They are therefore characterized by possible interactions of the learner with the physical environment, the Learner’s contextual dat...

Tunisia suffers from economic, social, and environmental issues. To mitigate those issues a Digit... more Tunisia suffers from economic, social, and environmental issues. To mitigate those issues a Digital Tunisia 2020 strategic development plan has been adopted. It aims to transform Tunisia to an international economic hub. It is composed of strategic directions, namely infrastructure, e-Gov, e-business, and Smart Tunisia. We focus on the description of e-Gov strategic direction, especially the Smart Gov 2020 Project. We compare between the planned actions and the implemented ones to distinguish the theory from the reality. Smart Tunisia is in its infancy, and many efforts should be done to become competitive to successful smart cities such as Amsterdam and Barcelona.

Smart city initiates the promise to address current problems of climate change, fossil fuels, and... more Smart city initiates the promise to address current problems of climate change, fossil fuels, and others. Decision makers call for innovative strategies to transform cities to smart ones. The transformational process to smart cities is hard, complex, and repetitive. We propose a generalized development process of smart city strategies as a support to the different stakeholders and which is validated with examples of smart city initiatives. In addition, a web-based platform is proposed for strategy formulation, sharing, and simulation. It allows stakeholders to communicate, design, and share strategies for smart city development and it is based on ontologies for a formal design and representation of strategies. A group of stakeholders, especially researchers and decision makers, test the proposed framework in a case of strategy formulation related to educational domain in a Tunisian city. They also evaluate the framework. The preliminary results of the use of the framework show that ...

Introduction Advances in mobile devices and related technologies are increasingly allowing the em... more Introduction Advances in mobile devices and related technologies are increasingly allowing the emergence of new applications. However, the very changing characteristics of mobile devices and their surrounding environment may lead to undesired and unpredictable situations preventing the user to use required services at a given time. Moreover, even though those characteristics may still unchanged, the user's mobility or her disabilities implies new or different situations and activities requiring new supporting services or adaptation of existing ones (Conde et al., 2009). For instance, during a common day life, the user may experience activities within which she is required to communicate and use domain specific expressions. She may be required to speak in a different language than her native or also experience strong communication problems and can't be aware of her surrounding environment (Massaro, 2004). Acquiring new communication skills in formal or informal way by making ...

Smart Cities Strategies are designed to mitigate one's city problems and transform it into a ... more Smart Cities Strategies are designed to mitigate one's city problems and transform it into a smart one. This transformation is repeatedly reused by cities around the world. The complexity of the multi-disciplinary domain of smart cities renders this transformation is very hard. Unless, it is done with the help of experts in the domain. To facilitate this transformational process, this paper relies on the definition of design process of smart cities strategies and on the use of ontologies as a proven formalism to represent knowledge and expertise from experts, more specifically well-designed Ontology Design Patterns (ODP). The use of ODPs seems to be a promising solution that drives the process of cities transformation. The definition of the design process and of the Ontology Design Patterns is guided by a literature review on smart cities strategies. A web-based platform is then used to provide a common space for stakeholders to communicate and propose transformational strategie...

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2016

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development