Springer Information and Knowledge in Internet of Things (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)

This book provides readers with an insight into information and knowledge in the Internet of Things, in particular an investigation of data management and processing, information extraction, technology, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, knowledge co-creation, knowledge integration, and the development of new intelligent services available anytime, anywhere, by anyone. The authors show how IoT enables communication and ubiquitous computing between global citizens, networked machines and physical objects, providing a promising vision of the future integrating the real world of knowledge agents and things with the virtual world of information. From the Back Cover This book provides readers with an insight into information and knowledge in the Internet of Things, in particular an investigation of data management and processing, information extraction, technology, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, knowledge co-creation, knowledge integration, and the development of new intelligent services available anytime, anywhere, by anyone. The authors show how IoT enables communication and ubiquitous computing between global citizens, networked machines and physical objects, providing a promising vision of the future integrating the real world of knowledge agents and things with the virtual world of information. Provides insight into information and knowledge in the Internet of Things, with a focus on data management and processing; Covers topics such as information extraction, technology, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, knowledge co-creation, and knowledge integration; Includes information relevant to researchers, professors, students, and professionals in IoT. About the Author Teresa Guarda received her PhD in Systems and Information Technologies in 2015 from Minho University. She is researcher in ALGORITMI Research Centre of Minho University, Portugal, (research team Intelligent Data Systems (IDS), Information Systems and Technologies (IST) R&D group);  is president of AISTI - Iberian Association of Information Systems and Technologies; member and responsible for Conferences and International Relations of the interdisciplinary research group BITrum; and member and researcher of GSIS The Institute for a Global Sustainable Society. She already has relevant indexed publications in the main research topics: Pervasive Systems, Marketing Intelligence, Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Intelligent Systems, Business Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Data Security, Information Science, Smart Destinations, Internet-of-Things, Computer Theory, Knowledge Management, Cybersecurity, Applied Social and Educational Technologies. Has also been organizer of several conferences and workshops, and reviewer of many indexed journals and conferences in these topics. She has been a professor and researcher in different academic institutions in Portugal since 1991; currently, she is Director of the CIST Research and Innovation Center, Faculty of Systems and Telecommunications, Santa Elena Provincial State University (Ecuador). Research team member of BITrum-Research Group in: the European FIRE project, "Fostering Integrative Research and Education" in which European, Ecuadorian and Mexican academic institutions participate with the purpose of developing interdisciplinary research capabilities through the development of research laboratories and social innovation; European project cycLAB, "Multidimensional development of bicycle mobility linked to scientific-technological studies, citizen movement and social welfare" in which participate academic institutions, energy agencies, private companies and Spanish and Portuguese municipalities; inter-institutional scientific collaboration glossariumBITru-UPSE, "Development of interdisciplinary glossaries as tools for the integration of knowledge in the study of information and the general study of systems"