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Neves, F. T., de Castro Neto, M., & Aparicio, M. (2020). The impacts of open data initiatives on smart cities: A framework for evaluation and monitoring. Cities, 106, 1-15. [102860]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102860 ; As the world's population is becoming progressively urban-dwelling, sustainable development challenges are increasingly concentrated in cities, placing tremendous pressure on society to build more sustainable, innovative, and equitable urban environments. Consequently, today's cities require integrated policies and new innovative ways to manage and improve the complexity of urban living conditions. The growing volume and variety of data produced in the urban ecosystem are crucial for obtaining the city's insights and building knowledge-based solutions for a smarter and more sustainable urban development. In this paper, we look at the open data impacts on these complex ecosystems and its crucial enabler role for the generation and analysis of contextual and actionable data aimed at understanding, managing, and planning the city. Despite the importance of open data, the literature is scarce in systematic and structured research that evaluates its impacts on the smart city context. This paper explores this gap by proposing a theoretical framework, composed of a model and an experiment grounded on the use of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT), designed to give a more detailed view concerning the context and characteristics of the impacts of open data initiatives on smart cities' sustainable development. This work will contribute to open data management and smart city development, providing boundaries and theoretical insights for further research and experimentation on how open data can be leveraged to develop better smart cities. ; authorsversion ; published

Cartaxo, T. D. M., Neto, M. D. C. S. F., & Vassalo, V. (2017). Smart Legal Mechanisms for Sustainable Cities. In Ö. Çınar (Ed.), Book of Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) 19-23 April 2017, Sarajevo (pp. 165-170). ICSD. ; The reality of "smart cities" is being spread all over the world as an obvious acquis, once populations are more and more gathering in urban areas. According to most recent reports from the United Nations, the largest part of the world's population lives within the territories of cities and, by 2050, these numbers may reach more than 70% of the inhabitants on the surface of Earth. The aggregation of people in small territories, such as megacities, represents a greater problem for present and future generations, once there are questions of health, pollution, safety or welfare that must be dealt with more effectiveness. Therefore, environmental and spatial planning laws and policies are a concern for political and judiciary powers. Public officers are, obviously, concerned with people's well-being, balance between various factors and resources in the nature, efficient use of those resources, cohesion and territorial sustainability, the future of the world we live in and the guarantee of meeting the needs of future generations. Consequently, the mechanisms used for fostering the development of "smart cities" (which are to be sustainable, inclusive and resilient territories), such as the use of new technologies, open data, monitoring and public participation, must be adopted by legal systems in urban areas. Adaptive legal mechanisms will play the catalysing role of articulating the wide range of the traditionally idiosyncratic elements of cities. Adaptive, flexible, participated, perceptive legal instruments are the most innovative secret for enhancing the future of people's lives in smarter and more sustainable cities. ; publishersversion ; published

Neto, M. D. C., Nascimento, M., Sarmento, P., Ribeiro, S., Rodrigues, T., & Painho, M. (2019). A Dashboard for Security Forces Data Visualization and Storytelling. In I. Ramos, R. Quaresma, P. R. D. Silva, & T. Oliveira (Eds.), Information Systems for Industry 4.0: Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Information Systems (pp. 47-62). (Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation; Vol. 31). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14850-8_4 ; Being security assumed as a basic right of citizens in the current model of democratic rule of law, optimal resources allocation altogether with budgetary constraints are a key component. In fact optimal resources allocation and budgetary constraints oblige an increasingly careful strategic management, adapted to demographic reality. The SIM4SECURITY project aims to build a technological solution to support decision making regarding security, based on the development of a GIS model and in the implementation of demographic scenarios. This model will allow policy makers, leaders and forces of command units and services in the planning and rational affectation of resources adjusted to local dynamics in crime prevention and crime fighting. To communicate the SIM4SECURITY results and support decision making, a data visualization and storytelling approach was adopted by creating dashboards containing the various dimensions and perspectives of the information were elaborated and are presented. The obtained outcomes show that dashboards are an important visual tool in the decision-making process by providing meaningful insights regarding security and in the location-allocation of security forces. ; authorsversion ; published

Comunicação apresentada na CAPSI 2011 - 11ª Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação – A Gestão de Informação na era da Cloud Computing, Lisboa, ISEG/IUL-ISCTE/, 19 a 21 de Outubro de 2011. ; The recent development of Cloud Computing (CC) provides a convincing opportunity for organizations to outsource their Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Although its popularity is increasing rapidly, there are concerns that must be taken into account. This paper ascertains the most relevant issues associated with the political, economic, social and technological factors concerning CC adoption. The research described is based on a scoping review to identify relevant studies published in the literature recently. The aim is to provide an overview of the most recent findings in the Cloud Computing environment, which can inform strategic decision-making by Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in this area.

UID/CPO/04627/2013 PTDC/ATP­DEM/1538/2014 ; Demographic studies are a support instrument for decision-making in the field of security policies. Security is a public good, perceived as a critical political issue in the actual context of unstable balance between investment in internal security forces, and urgency of reducing criminality. SIM4SECURITY (PTDC/ATP-DEM/1538/2014) is a technological solution, based on a GIS model and demographic forecasting, which can improve the operational activity of the security forces. We aim to perform demographic disaggregated scenarios in order to optimize the ratio police/citizen, and assure the effectiveness of the security model based on new risks and threats, insecurity factors and the new necessities of local populations. Being a mutable system, the model will be able to monitor up until 2030 and take into account change of parameters, variables and factors that prove to influence dynamic population distributions scenarios. Os estudos demográficos são um instrumento de apoio à decisão no âmbito das políticas de segurança. A segurança é um bem público e representa uma questão política que exige a tomada de opções racionais entre investimento nas forças de segurança e a urgência de reduzir a criminalidade e os seus impactos. Como contributo para a resolução desta questão propomos a criação do SIM4SECURITY (PTDC/ATP-DEM/1538/2014), uma solução tecnológica baseada no desenvolvimento de um modelo SIG e na elaboração de cenários demográficos. Os resultados do exercício prospetivo permitirão otimizar a rácio polícia/cidadão e melhorar a eficácia do modelo de segurança, tendo em conta novos riscos e ameaças, novos fatores de insegurança e necessidades específicas adaptados às especificidades locais. O modelo é dinâmico e permite monitorizar até 2030 as mudanças de parâmetros, variáveis e fatores que venham a ser considerados influentes na distribuição da população portuguesa no território. ; publishersversion ; published

Abdelnour, G. A., Abouchedid, K., Aguayo, M., Bakkali, M., Baroud, F., Belhani, A., . Ykhlef, N. (2017). General methodology. In J. B. Govantes Romero, & E. Mellado Durán (Eds.), EURO-MEDITERRANEAN INTEGRATION THROUGH LIFELONG LEARNING (EU-MILL): A memory of cooperation and dialogue on Education in the Mediterranean basin (pp. 49-78). (Divulgación Científica). Universidad de Sevilla. https://doi.org/10.12795/9788447221042 ; On the following pages, it will be analyzed the situation of LLL on all partner countries, the integration of LLL policies within their legal frameworks, as well as some examples of good practices in LLL on the partner countries, identified and learnt after the study visit to HEI in the European shore. We have performed a comparative policy analysis extracted from the country reports on LLL delivered in the begining of project in the four southern Mediterranean partner countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon and Algeria) and in the European Union. The expected aim was to compare the different policies of these countries for implementing Lifelong Learning, in order to provide basis for a further development of Lifelong Learning policies in the four countries. The analysis provides the necessary base for introducing a framework and guidelines on behalf of establishing, assessing, accrediting and running LLL study programmes in higher education (HE), conducting projects and providing a firm and stable infrastructure for LLL. ; publishersversion ; published