A Unified Smart City Model (USCM) for smart city conceptualization and benchmarking

International Journal of Electronic Government Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 77-93

  Anthopoulos, Leonidas ^a   Janssen, Marijn ^b   Weerakkody, Vishanth ^c  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architectures; Benchmarking; E Government; Frameworks; Measurement; Modeling; Smart City

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; BENCHMARKING; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; MEASUREMENTS; MODELS;

DIFFERENT CLASS; E-GOVERNMENTS; FRAMEWORKS; MEASURE AND CONTROLS; SMART CITIES; URBAN CHARACTERISTICS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84982308432     PISSN: 15483886     EISSN: 15483894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/IJEGR.2016040105     Document Type: Article

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