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Smart Cities: Drivers to Increase Context-Awareness Based on a Systematic Review of the Literature

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The study reported in this article aimed to identify the most relevant context-aware applications supported in smart city infrastructures, the characteristics of the technologies being used, and the maturity level of their implementation. A systematic review was performed based on a search of the literature and a total of 19 articles was retrieved. The articles report context-aware applications for different domains, namely public health, information services, urban mobility, management of urban infrastructures, active citizenship, and improvement of shopping experience.

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This work was financially supported by National Funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the project UI IEETA: UID/CEC/00127/2020.

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  1. Medical Sciences Department and Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Nelson Pacheco Rocha

  2. Department of Economics, Industrial Engineering, Management and Tourism and GOVCOPP - Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Ana Dias

  3. Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences and GOVCOPP - Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Gonçalo Santinha & Carlos Rodrigues

  4. Águeda School of Technology and Management and Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Mário Rodrigues

  5. Health Sciences School and Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Alexandra Queirós

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  1. ISEG, University of Lisbon, LISBOA, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. Institute of Data Science and Digital Te, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Gintautas Dzemyda

  4. DCT, Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal

    Fernando Moreira

  5. Department of Information Sciences, University of Sheffield, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Ramalho Correia

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Rocha, N.P., Dias, A., Santinha, G., Rodrigues, M., Rodrigues, C., Queirós, A. (2021). Smart Cities: Drivers to Increase Context-Awareness Based on a Systematic Review of the Literature. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Ramalho Correia, A.M. (eds) Trends and Applications in Information Systems and Technologies . WorldCIST 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72660-7_58

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