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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Social Collective Awareness in Socio-Technical Urban Superorganisms

Authors : Nicola Bicocchi, Alket Cecaj, Damiano Fontana, Marco Mamei, Andrea Sassi, Franco Zambonelli

Published in: Social Collective Intelligence

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Smart cities are characterized by the close integration of ICT devices and humans. However, the vast majority of current deployments of smart technologies relies on sensing devices collecting data and data mining techniques squeezing little meanings out of them. Nevertheless, we believe that citizens integrated with ICT technologies could collaboratively constitute large-scale socio-technical superorganisms supporting collective awareness and behaviours. This paper clarifies our vision on urban superorganisms, identifies the key challenges towards their actual deployment and proposes a prototype architecture supporting their development.

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Metadata
Title
Social Collective Awareness in Socio-Technical Urban Superorganisms
Authors
Nicola Bicocchi
Alket Cecaj
Damiano Fontana
Marco Mamei
Andrea Sassi
Franco Zambonelli
Copyright Year
2014
Book
Social Collective Intelligence

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-08680-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-08681-1

Copyright Year: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08681-1_11