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VeidBlock: Verifiable identity using blockchain and ledger in a software defined network (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Blockchain and verifiable identities have a lot of potential in future distributed software applications e.g. smart cities. In this paper, we proposed a novel technique, namely VeidBlock, to generate verifiable identities by following a reliable auth... Read More about VeidBlock: Verifiable identity using blockchain and ledger in a software defined network.

Chair’s welcome: SCCTSA workshop (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Welcome note for the 4th International workshop - Smart City Clouds: Technologies Systems and Applications co-located with 10 IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, 5-8 December 2017.

eLEM: A novel e-Learner Experience Model (2017)
Journal Article

Many e-learning artefacts have been developed and promoted based on their ability to enhance learning and e-learner experience. However, there is a lack of precise definition of what the e-learner experience implies and associated models to inform th... Read More about eLEM: A novel e-Learner Experience Model.

Towards a secure service provisioning framework in a Smart city environment (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Over the past few years the concept of Smart cities has emerged to transform urban areas into connected and well informed spaces. Services that make smart cities “smart” are curated by using data streams of smart cities i.e., inh... Read More about Towards a secure service provisioning framework in a Smart city environment.

A network-based approach to capture provenance of a policy-making process (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A policy-making process entails large sources of data for its creation, the tracking of which can provide a significant insight into a process and data that was being employed for its creation. However, a process employed for creating policies varies... Read More about A network-based approach to capture provenance of a policy-making process.

Using a model-driven approach in building a provenance framework for tracking policy-making processes in Smart Cities (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The significance of provenance in various settings has emphasized its potential in the policy-making process for analytics in Smart Cities. At present, there exists no framework that can capture the provenance in a policy-making setting. This researc... Read More about Using a model-driven approach in building a provenance framework for tracking policy-making processes in Smart Cities.

Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 by the authors. Citizen participation for social innovation and co-creating urban regeneration proposals can be greatly facilitated by innovative IT systems. Such systems can use Open Government Data, visualise urban proposals in 3D models and... Read More about Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study.

ELCMM: An e-learning capability maturity model (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The widespread applications of e-learning or technology-enhanced learning in academic institutions have led to a huge escalation in the development of e-learning evaluation models. Such models are focused on the assessment of e-learning systems at th... Read More about ELCMM: An e-learning capability maturity model.

Towards a generalised e-learning business process model (2017)
Journal Article

Modelling learning scenarios is central for e-learning domain. This has been manifested in the proliferation of the different Educational Modelling Languages, as well as in developed e-learning models. However, the existing modelled scenarios are def... Read More about Towards a generalised e-learning business process model.

Dynamic, interactive and visual analysis of population distribution and mobility dynamics in an urban environment using the mobility explorer framework (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 by the authors. This paper investigates the extent to which a mobile data source can be utilised to generate new information intelligence for decision-making in smart city planning processes. In this regard, the Mobility Explorer framework is... Read More about Dynamic, interactive and visual analysis of population distribution and mobility dynamics in an urban environment using the mobility explorer framework.

Towards provisioning of real-time smart city services using clouds (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

ICT is becoming an enabler for smart city applications by making effective use of various data resources generated daily in an urban environment. Mostly this data is utilised by city authorities for city planning purposes and often citi- zens become... Read More about Towards provisioning of real-time smart city services using clouds.

eLearner experience model (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In literature, there have been many e-learning artefacts developed and promoted based on their ability to enhance learning and e-learner experience. However, there is lack of a precise definition of e-learner experience in literature. This paper disc... Read More about eLearner experience model.

A provenance framework for policy analytics in Smart Cities (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Copyright © 2016 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved. Sustainable urban environments require appropriate policy management. However, such policies are established as a result of underlying, potentially comple... Read More about A provenance framework for policy analytics in Smart Cities.

Towards cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Khan et al.; licensee Springer. A large amount of land-use, environment, socio-economic, energy and transport data is generated in cities. An integrated perspective of managing and analysing such big data can answer a number of science, polic... Read More about Towards cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities.

Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Data collected through remote sensing (for instance geo-satellite) provides necessary stimulus for developing smart solutions for climate change & public health, energy efficiency and land monitoring in an urban environment. The velocity, variety, vo... Read More about Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities.

Towards cloud based smart cities data security and privacy management (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Smart cities accumulate and process large amount of data streams which raise security and privacy concerns at individual and community levels. Sizeable attempts have made to ensure security and privacy of inhabitants’ data. However, security and priv... Read More about Towards cloud based smart cities data security and privacy management.

A framework for cloud-based context-aware information services for citizens in smart cities (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Khan et al.; licensee Springer. Background: In the context of smart cities, public participation and citizen science are key ingredients for informed and intelligent planning decisions and policy-making. However, citizens face a practical chal... Read More about A framework for cloud-based context-aware information services for citizens in smart cities.

Exploring population distribution and motion dynamics through mobile phone device data in selected cities – lessons learned from the UrbanAPI project (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper discusses experiences of development and implementation of public motion explorer (PME) tool as part of the EU FP7 project urbanAPI. This tool has been applied to three EU cities with the objective to investigate population distribution dyn... Read More about Exploring population distribution and motion dynamics through mobile phone device data in selected cities – lessons learned from the UrbanAPI project.

ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present the effectiveness of participatory information and communication technology (ICT) tools for urban planning, in particular, supporting bottom-up decision-making in urban management and governance. Design/me... Read More about ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project.

Cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

ICT is becoming increasingly pervasive to urban environments and providing the necessary basis for sustainability and resilience of the smart future cities. Often ICT tools for a smart city deal with different application domains e.g. land use, trans... Read More about Cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities.