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Teamwork Behavior in Smart and Sustainable Cities Ecosystems

Authors:
Panos Fitsilis
Paraskevi Tsoutsa
Leonidas Anthopoulos
Omiros Ragos

Keywords: Services; Smart Cities; Service Choreography; Role Modeling; Teamworking

Abstract:
According to market research, the number of smart cities is increasing rapidly. Information and Communication Technologies provide the smart infrastructure that is the foundation for all of the key themes related to a smart city, such as smart economy, smart people, smart governance, smart mobility, smart health, smart buildings, smart water, etc. As such, a smart city is constituted of various infrastructure components that form a complex system of systems, which is essential to collaborate effectively. Services play a central role in this vision of smart cities, as they are used as building blocks for effective collaboration, i.e., to achieve interoperability between heterogeneous parties of a business process and independence from the underlying infrastructure. In order to cope with the problem of complexity and the scalability in smart cities’ systems, a solution is to provide autonomous, collaborating services that have situation awareness and they are able to adapt dynamically to the changing needs of the environment. In this research, we propose to model smart cities’ services collaboration by using the role modeling approach enhanced by the introduction of service teamwork roles. The teamwork roles definition is inspired both by human and agent team working models. We contribute by determining the dominant teamwork roles that prevail during service group cooperation where the main goal of each role is to intervene during collaboration and “act as a connector” in order to keep the team of component services together and consistent with the goal of the group–team. The teamwork functionality is applied through the introduction of a new layer in the architecture of smart cities and is exploited to overcome some of the aforementioned problems.

Pages: 35 to 40

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: June 24, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4227

ISBN: 978-1-61208-645-3

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2018 to June 28, 2018