Smart cities, green technologies, and intelligent transport systems : 5th International Conference, SMARTGREENS 2016, and Second International Conference, VEHITS 2016, Rome, Italy, April 23-25, 2016, Revised selected papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2016, and the Second International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, VEHITS 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in April 2016. The 11 full papers of SMARTGREENS 2016 presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. VEHITS 2016 received 49 paper submissions from which 5 papers were selected and published in this book. The papers reflect topics such as smart cities, energy-aware systems and technologies, sustainable computing and communications, sustainable transportation and smart mobility. Read more... Abstract: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2016, and the Second International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, VEHITS 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in April 2016. The 11 full papers of SMARTGREENS 2016 presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. VEHITS 2016 received 49 paper submissions from which 5 papers were selected and published in this book. The papers reflect topics such as smart cities, energy-aware systems and technologies, sustainable computing and communications, sustainable transportation and smart mobility Front Matter ....Pages I-XIV Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 About Monitoring in a Service World (Barbara Pernici, Pierluigi Plebani, Monica Vitali)....Pages 3-23 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 Analysing the Impact of Storage and Load Shifting on Grey Energy Demand Reduction (Iván S. Razo-Zapata, Mihail Mihaylov, Ann Nowé)....Pages 27-48 Enhancing User Comfort in Demand Response Solutions for Water Heaters: User-Centric Hot Water Management (Alexander Belov, Alexandr Vasenev, Nirvana Meratnia, Paul J. M. Havinga)....Pages 49-74 Characterizing Smart Grid Events Using Clustering Methods (Eric Klinginsmith, Richard Barella, Xinghui Zhao, Scott Wallace)....Pages 75-96 The Structural and Kinematical Analyses of a Wired Robotic Mechanism with Three Degrees of Freedom (Nicolae Bercan, Mihaiela Iliescu, Cristian Matran)....Pages 97-109 Electric-Motion Infrastructure in Romania - Research on Machining Processes of Mechanical Components of e-Motion Charging Station (Mihaiela Iliescu, Luige Vlădăreanu, Nicolae Bercan, Alexandru Rogojinaru)....Pages 110-124 Modelling the Diagnosis of Industry Internet of Things (Calin Ciufudean, Corneliu Buzduga)....Pages 125-134 Monitoring Data Reduction in Data Centers: A Correlation-Based Approach (Xuesong Peng, Barbara Pernici)....Pages 135-153 Adopting DDS to Smart Grids: Towards Reliable Data Communication (Alaa Alaerjan, Dae-Kyoo Kim)....Pages 154-169 The Surveillance Society: Which Factors Form Public Acceptance of Surveillance Technologies? (Julia van Heek, Katrin Arning, Martina Ziefle)....Pages 170-191 A Smarter Sidewalk-Based Route Planner for Wheelchair Users: An Approach with Open Data (Nádia P. Kozievitch, Leonelo D. A. Almeida, Ricardo Dutra da Silva, Rodrigo Minetto)....Pages 192-206 A Simplified Methodological Approach Towards the Net Zero Energy District (Sesil Koutra, Vincent Becue, Christos S. Ioakimidis)....Pages 207-224 Front Matter ....Pages 225-225 Optimal Strategies for Adaptive Cruise Control (Clement U. Mba, Carlo Novara)....Pages 227-241 An Automatic Traffic Congestion Identification Algorithm Based on Mixture of Linear Regressions (Mohammed Elhenawy, Hesham Rakha, Hao Chen)....Pages 242-256 Dos and Don’ts of Datasharing in V2X-Technology (Teresa Schmidt, Ralf Philipsen, Martina Ziefle)....Pages 257-274 ICT for Urban Area Logistics with Electric Vehicles Compared Within Simulated and Real Environments (Volkmar Schau, Sebastian Apel, Kai Gebhardt, Johannes Kretzschmar, Christian Stolcis, Marianne Mauch et al.)....Pages 275-295 Analysis and Possible Mitigation of Interferences Between Present and Next-Generation Marine Radars (Gaspare Galati, Gabriele Pavan, Francesco De Palo)....Pages 296-322 Back Matter ....Pages 323-323