All Outputs (13)

Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study (2017)
Journal Article
Soomro, K., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2017). Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 23(5-6), 419-444. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009859

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper presents some results from an EU FP7 RTD project urbanAPI, in which three ICT applications target different aspects of participatory urban governance. The 3D Scenario Creator allows urban plan... Read More about Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study.

From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products (2017)
Journal Article
Ludlow, D., Khan, Z., Soomro, K., Marconcini, M., José, R. S., Malcorps, P., …Metz, A. (2017). From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 23(5-6), 465-493. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009861

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Intelligence delivered by earth observation (EO) satellites performs a vital role in supporting ICT enabled urban governance, and the creation of decision making tools delivering integrated urban plannin... Read More about From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products.

OntoSoS.QM.Gov: A quality governance framework for systems of systems (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Qaddoumi, E., Odeh, M., Khan, Z., Kossmann, M., Traish, I., & Tbakhi, A. (2017, December). OntoSoS.QM.Gov: A quality governance framework for systems of systems. Paper presented at Complex systems design and management conference, Paris, France

Many organisations develop Systems of systems (SoS) to accomplish their business objectives. SoS deliver new capabilities by enabling cooperation between existing constituent monolithic systems. However, domain and process heterogeneities and varying... Read More about OntoSoS.QM.Gov: A quality governance framework for systems of systems.

VeidBlock: Verifiable identity using blockchain and ledger in a software defined network (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Abbasi, A. G., & Khan, Z. (2017, December). VeidBlock: Verifiable identity using blockchain and ledger in a software defined network. Paper presented at Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications (SCCTSA) co-located with 10th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Austin, Texas

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)
Conference Proceeding
Khan, Z. (2017). Chair’s welcome: SCCTSA workshop. In UCC '17 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. , (163–164). https://doi.org/10.1145/3147234.3148605

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
Hammad, R., Odeh, M., & khan, Z. (2017). eLEM: A novel e-Learner Experience Model. International Arab Journal of Information Technology, 14(4A), 586-597

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
Khan, Z., Pervaiz, Z., & Abbasi, A. G. (2017). Towards a secure service provisioning framework in a Smart city environment. Future Generation Computer Systems, 77, 112-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.06.031

© 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
Javed, B., Khan, Z., & McClatchey, R. (2017, July). A network-based approach to capture provenance of a policy-making process. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 21st International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium on - IDEAS 2017., UWE, Bristol, UK

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
Javed, B., Khan, Z., & McClatchey, R. (2017, July). Using a model-driven approach in building a provenance framework for tracking policy-making processes in Smart Cities. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 21st International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium on - IDEAS 2017, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

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
Fröhlich, P., Khan, Z., Dambruch, J., Peters-Anders, J., Sackl, A., Strasser, A., …Soomro, K. (2017). Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study. Information, 8(2), 47. https://doi.org/10.3390/info8020047

© 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
Hammad, R., Odeh, M., & Khan, Z. (2017, April). ELCMM: An e-learning capability maturity model. Paper presented at The 15th International Conference on e-Society, Budapest

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
Hammad, R., Odeh, M., & Khan, Z. (2017). Towards a generalised e-learning business process model

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
Peters-Anders, J., Khan, Z., Loibl, W., Augustin, H., & Breinbauer, A. (2017). Dynamic, interactive and visual analysis of population distribution and mobility dynamics in an urban environment using the mobility explorer framework. Information, 8(2), 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/info8020056

© 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.