As research on smart cities garners increased attention and its status consolidates as one of the fanciest areas today, this paper makes a case for cautious rethink very rationale relevance debate. To end, looks at debate from perspectives of, hand, citizens’ awareness applications solutions that are considered ‘smart’ and, other their ability to use these solutions. Drawing detailed analysis outcomes pilot international study, showcases even most educated users city services, i.e., those...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to rethink the focus smart cities debate and open it policymaking strategy considerations. To end, origins what termed normative bias in research are identified a case made for holistic, scalable human-centred agenda. Applicable across micro, mezzo macro levels context which develop, agenda remains sensitive limitations enablers inherent these contexts. Policymaking consideration incorporated advances, thus creating prospect bridging empirical research....

Educational Data Mining (EDM) and Learning Analytics (LA) research have emerged as interesting areas of research, which are unfolding useful knowledge from educational databases for many purposes such predicting students' success. The ability to predict a student's performance can be beneficial actions in modern systems. Existing methods used features mostly related academic performance, family income assets; while belonging expenditures personal information usually ignored. In this paper,...

Policy making for smart cities: innovation and social inclusive economic growth sustainability 1. Introduction This paper aims to query the scientific debate related a new generation of policy-aware cities research geared towards socially sustainability.It summarizes rationale behind relevant JSTPM Special Issue its overall objective serve as reference policymakers, educators, practitioners, government think-tank officers interested in emerging topics research.This examines state-of-the-art...

Energy sustainability is one of the key questions that drive debate on cities’ and urban areas development. In parallel, artificial intelligence cognitive computing have emerged as catalysts in process aimed at designing optimizing smart services’ supply utilization space. The latter are paramount domain energy provision consumption. This paper offers an insight into pilot systems prototypes showcase which ways can offer critical support attaining cities. To this end, examines metering...

One of the most challenging areas Future Smart Cities Research is Energy domain. Critical issues related to optimization, provision smart customizable networks and sophisticated computational techniques methods enabled by artificial intelligence machine learning need further investigation. The renewable energy (RE) a powerful resource for future global development in context climate change resources depletion. Artificial (AI) implies new rules organizing activities order respond these...

The deployment of cryptocurrencies in e-commerce has reached a significant number transactions and continuous increases monetary circulation; nevertheless, they face two impediments: lack awareness the technological utility, trust among consumers. E-commerce carried out through social networks expands its application to new paradigm called commerce. Social commerce uses content generated within attract consumers influence their behavior. objective this paper is analyze role played by media...

The Internet and its increasing usage has changed informal learning in depth. This change affected young older adults both the workplace higher education. But, spite of this, formal non-formal course-based approaches have not taken full advantage these new scenarios technologies. Web 2.0 is a way for people to communicate across Internet. Communication means transformation knowledge exchange. These are facts that cannot be obviated by organisations their training programmes management....

The Big Data and Analytics is a brand new paradigm, for the integration of Internet Technology in human machine context. For first time history mankind we are able to transforming raw data that massively produced by humans machines knowledge wisdom capable supporting smart decision making, innovative services, business models, innovation, entrepreneurship. Web Science research, this methodological technological spectrum advanced methods, frameworks functionalities never experienced past. At...

Research on smart cities matures and new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of are proposed. At same time, problems pertinent communities inhabiting rural areas tend be addressed, as if by way, i.e., a part discussions in neighboring fields research, it environmental studies, sociology, or agriculture. Arguably, concept ‘the village’ has been largely absent academic debate, even countryside have subject concern for robust policy frameworks, such European Union’s Cohesion Policy Common...

The field of education is not immune to advances in sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT). Going beyond the ICT-hype, objective this paper examine what extent how technology-enhanced teaching learning (TEL) can enhance and, hence, turn them into levers sustainable socio-economic growth development. To address these questions, a multidimensional survey was developed distributed internationally lecturers/professors active higher education. initial point departure for...

The application of virtual reality (VR) in improving users' learning outcomes, especially perceived effectiveness, is a new area. VR provides visualisation and interaction within world that closely resembles real world, bringing an immersive study experience. It also has two special features: representational fidelity immediacy control. However, only when the technology fits tasks users are performing will it be adopted. In addition, itself cannot improve outcomes; certain behaviours, such...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the integration serious games (SGs) in area special educational needs last ten years (2007-2017). Design/methodology/approach SGs indicate positive effects on students with and promote a multi-sensory style learning. Findings Research showed that are able keep K-12 education attention, memory developmental disabilities engaged classroom facilities scaffolding their learning through increased motivation, independence, autonomy resultant...

Smart cities research evolved into one of the most vibrant fields and policy-making with sustainability well-being becoming bons mots debate. The business sector, i.e., developers vendors, form an equally important group stakeholders in this context. question is to what extent that debate yields kind output end-users would expect consider useful usable. A plethora smart city services exists. Literature suggests a myriad new ICT-enhanced tools could find application urban space....