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PurposeIn the last decade, bureaucratic organizational hierarchies have been increasingly replaced with flatter organizational forms, bringing together people from different disciplines to form project teams within and between organizations. Distributed project teams often are self‐configuring networks of mobile and "fixed" people, devices, and applications. They are the natural next step in the evolution of distributed computing, after client‐server, web‐based, and peer‐to‐peer computing. Seeks to show that a newly emerging requirement is to facilitate not just mobility of content (i.e. to support a multitude of devices and connectivity modes) to project members, but also mobility of context (i.e. to provide traceable and continuous support of dynamic relationships between people, artifacts, and business processes).Design/methodology/approachThe contribution of this paper is to present the design goals, the architecture, and implementation of a system aiming at supporting internet‐enabled workflow and groupware for project teams, enabling traceable and continuous support of associations (relationships) between people, artifacts, and business processes.FindingsThe findings indicate that building internet‐enabled workflow and groupware systems is valuable for virtual teamwork, since they provide a foundation for context‐aware and process‐aware information systems.Originality/valueThis article outlines some foundations of process‐aware collaborative work. Provides an analysis of current workflow and groupware shortcomings in respect of virtual teamwork, outlines the design goals, architecture and an implementation of a system aiming at supporting virtual teams on the internet.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Part I Present and Future of Smart Cities -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Smart Cities and a Vision of Cyber-Human Cities -- 1.1 Architecture of Values -- 1.2 Smart City Platform -- 1.3 Stakeholders -- 1.4 Complex Coordinated Activities -- 1.5 Incentives as a Soft Controllability Principle -- 1.6 Citizen Informedness -- 1.7 Provisioning and Governing Infrastructure as a Utility -- 1.8 Summary & -- Organization of the Book -- Preface -- Part II Provisioning and Governing Smart City Systems -- Chapter 2 State Of The Art & -- RelatedWork -- 2.1 Overview of Development Support for IoT Cloud Applications -- 2.2 Provisioning Approaches in the IoT Cloud -- 2.3 IoT Cloud Governance Approaches -- Chapter 3 Provisioning Smart City Infrastructure -- 3.1 Research Context -- 3.1.1 Scenarios -- 3.1.1.1 Provisioning FMS -- 3.1.2 Provisioning BMS -- 3.1.3 Research Challenges -- 3.2 Main Building Blocks of Software-Defined IoT Systems -- 3.2.1 Design Principles of Software-Defined IoT Cloud Systems -- 3.2.2 Conceptual Model of Software-Defined IoT Units -- 3.2.3 Unit Classification -- 3.3 Main Techniques for Provisioning Software-Defined IoT Cloud Systems -- 3.3.1 Automated Composition of Software-Defined IoT Units -- 3.3.2 Centrally Managed Configuration Models -- 3.4 Prototype Implementation & -- Evaluation -- 3.4.1 Preliminary Implementation of Provisioning Controller -- 3.4.2 Experiments -- 3.4.2.1 Revisiting the Motivating Scenario -- 3.4.2.2 Simplified Provisioning -- 3.4.2.3 Flexible Customization -- 3.5 Summary -- Chapter 4 Middleware for Utility-based Provisioning of Smart City Infrastructure -- 4.1 Research Context -- 4.1.1 Research Challenges -- 4.2 IoT Cloud Provisioning Middleware -- 4.2.1 Software-Defined Gateways -- 4.2.1.1 Artifact Packages -- 4.2.1.2 Provisioning Agent.

peer-reviewed ; The proliferation of "Smart Cities" initiatives around the world is a part of the strategic response by governments to the challenges and opportunities of increasing urbanization and the rise of cities as the nexus of societal development. This JISA Thematic Series presents significant research contributions related to the design and development of Infrastructure, Services and Applications for the Smart City and Urban context.

The COVID19 Pandemic has highlighted our dependence on online services (from government, e-commerce/retail, and entertainment), often hosted over external cloud computing infrastructure. The users of these services interact with a web interface rather than the larger distributed service provisioning chain that can involve an interlinked group of providers. The data and identity of users are often provided to service provider who may share it (or have automatic sharing agreement) with backend services (such as advertising and analytics). We propose the development of compliance-aware cloud application engineering, which is able to improve transparency of personal data use -- particularly with reference to the European GDPR regulation. Key compliance operations and the perceived implementation challenges for the realization of these operations in current cloud infrastructure are outlined.