Collective awareness and action in urban superorganisms

Future urban scenarios will be characterized by the close integration of ICT devices and humans. Citizens using their own capabilities integrated with ICT technologies could collaboratively constitute a large-scale socio-technical superorganism to support collective urban awareness and activities. T...

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Main Authors:	Bicocchi, Nicola, Fontana, Damiano, Mamei, Marco, Zambonelli, Franco
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Cities and towns Computer architecture Cyber-Physical Convergence Middleware Pervasive Computing Robot sensing systems Self-Organization Social network services Urban areas
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Summary:	Future urban scenarios will be characterized by the close integration of ICT devices and humans. Citizens using their own capabilities integrated with ICT technologies could collaboratively constitute a large-scale socio-technical superorganism to support collective urban awareness and activities. This position paper, with the help of a representative case study, identifies the key challenges for future urban superorganisms and proposes a two-tier architecture to support their development.
ISSN:	2164-7038