A Provenance Framework for Policy Analytics in Smart Cities

Barkha Javed, Richard McClatchey, Zaheer Khan, Jetendr Shamdasani

2016

Abstract

Sustainable urban environments require appropriate policy management. However, such policies are established as a result of underlying, potentially complex and long-term policy making processes. Consequently, better policies require improved and verifiable planning processes. In order to assess and evaluate the planning process, transparency of the system is pivotal which can be achieved by tracking the provenance of policy making process. However, at present no system is available that can track the complete cycle of urban planning and decision making. We propose to capture the complete process of policy making and to investigate the role of Internet of Things (IoT) provenance to support design-making for policy analytics and implementation. The environment in which this research will be demonstrated is that of Smart Cities whose requirements will drive the research process.

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Javed B., McClatchey R., Khan Z. and Shamdasani J. (2016). A Provenance Framework for Policy Analytics in Smart Cities . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data - Volume 1: IoTBD, ISBN 978-989-758-183-0, pages 429-434. DOI: 10.5220/0005931504290434


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@conference{iotbd16,
author={Barkha Javed and Richard McClatchey and Zaheer Khan and Jetendr Shamdasani},
title={A Provenance Framework for Policy Analytics in Smart Cities},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data - Volume 1: IoTBD,},
year={2016},
pages={429-434},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005931504290434},
isbn={978-989-758-183-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data - Volume 1: IoTBD,
TI - A Provenance Framework for Policy Analytics in Smart Cities
SN - 978-989-758-183-0
AU - Javed B.
AU - McClatchey R.
AU - Khan Z.
AU - Shamdasani J.
PY - 2016
SP - 429
EP - 434
DO - 10.5220/0005931504290434