The opening discussion will address the elephant in the room: How can cultural heritage and e-mobility be the common theme for a conference? What brings these topics together and how will they both shape our cities in the future? Hear from the coordinators of the two projects influencing this year's...
Service choreography is a composition approachwhich has not yet received wide attention in SOAresearch. In this paper, we describe an approach forthe modeling and validation of choreography based onso-called Semantic Interfaces and Goals. Ourcontributions include flexible modeling ofchoreography...
Re-purpose. Re-charge. Re-think. - What do these three terms actually mean for our cities? How will heritage and e-mobility shape our cities in the future and how have the discussions in the last three days contributed to the debate? The closing panel of the 9th Informed Cities Forum will draw...
Despite advances in mobile computing technologies, end-user development has mainly focused on desktop applications. Fundamentally contrasting desktop applications, mobile applications should satisfy the changing needs and tasks of the users on the move, and usually have a strong affinity with the...
The use of handheld networked devices to access information systems by people moving around is spreading rapidly. Systems being used in this way typically face dynamic variation in their operating environment. This poses new challenges for system developers that need to build systems that adapt...
A major challenge of dynamic composition is to find ways to model components and analyze their composition in order to guarantee that the composition is free from interaction errors and deadlocks. Existing techniques for validation typically require expert knowledge in formal modelling and reasoning...
Despite the increasing use of digital tools for citizen participation, their ecosystem and functionality remain underexplored. What digital tools exist, and how do they help citizens engage in policymaking? This article addresses this gap by examining the supply side of digital tools for citizen...
Some cities start with strong political leadership, some cities flounder without it. Others rely on data but are unable to meaningfully use it to affect change. What is the most important evidence to collect to achieve change? What do decision makers really need to know to set the right course for...
A major challenge of dynamic composition is to find ways to model components and analyze their composition in order to guarantee that the composition is free from interaction errors and deadlocks. Existing techniques for validation typically require expert knowledge in formal modelling and reasoning...
The world is facing a growing number of societal challenges such as inequality rise, political upheaval, ageing population, etc. Governments are struggling to keep up to theirs existing service offers, making it difficult for tackling overarching social challenges alone. The active involvement of...
Self-management has the potential to improve patient care and decrease healthcare costs. It is especially beneficial for patients suffering from chronic diseases that require continuous therapy and follow-up such as cystic fibrosis (CF). Mobile phones have become pervasive and, therefore, are...
Exploiting contextual information in user interfaces (UIs) on mobile equipment is an important means for enhancing the user experience on such devices. Implementing flexible and adaptive UIs that are multitasking and possibly exploiting multiple modalities requires expensive application-specific...
A main activity in meta-design is the creation of design spaces allowing problem owners to act as system developers. Meta-design is a conceptual framework; it does not provide concrete design space solutions or engineering guidelines for constructing tools that support design spaces. This paper...
Services are normally not performed by a single component, but result from the collaboration of several distributed components. Their precise specification and validation require complex models, where the intention of the service is easily lost in the detail. This paper exploits the concept of...
Gamification, i.e. applying game elements in non-game contexts, is been increasingly used for designing systems and application elements to foster user engagement, enjoyment and support behavior change. Experts agree that, to be efficient, gamification strategies should be designed in a user...
This paper presents application of ontology-based modelling and reasoning related to the different phases of the lifecycle of mobile services. Ontology-based descriptions complement traditional design-time and runtime models allowing more complex reasoning. We present use cases for ontologies that...
ICT-based personalization in cultural heritage has been an important topic of research during the last twenty years. Personalization is used as a means to enhance the visitors’ experience of a cultural site. Little consideration has however been set on lifelong cultural experiences, i.e. engaging...
In this session we compare and contrast e-mobility solutions to common central problems across Europe, using the GreenCharge cities Barcelona, Bremen and Oslo as test cases, supported by our host city of Freiburg which has many years of experience in the mobility and energy transition. We will give...
Places we walk through every day often have cultural heritage stories connected to them, but many stories remain unknown and many get lost. Storytelling for cultural heritage discovery has long been used, mostly in cultural institutions. The documentation and dissemination of cultural heritage...
The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on the application of AmI to crisis and disaster management. Because of their pervasiveness and ease of use, AmI technologies hold a great potential to support crisis management in an efficient and effective way. Focus will be...