ZTE Communications ›› 2015, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (4): 10-15.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2015.04.002

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Smart Cities in Europe and the ALMA Logistics Project

Didier El Baz1, Julien Bourgeois2   

  1. 1. CNRS, LAAS, 7 avenue du colonel Roche, F-31400 Toulouse, France,
    Université de Toulouse, F-31400 Toulouse, France;
    2. Université de Franche-Comté-FEMTO-ST Institute, UMR CNRS 6174, 1 cours Leprince-Ringuet, F-25200 Montbéliard, France
  • Received:2015-08-10 Online:2015-12-25 Published:2015-12-25
  • About author:Didier El Baz (elbaz@laas.fr) received his Dr. Engineer degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from INSA Toulouse France in 1984 and was a visiting scientist in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT, USA in 1984-1985. Dr. El Baz received the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from INP Toulouse in 1998. His fields of interest are in parallel and distributed computing, combinatorial optimization and IoT. Dr. El Baz has co-authored more than 120 international publications. He was the program chair of International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Networked - Based Processing (PDP) 2008 and PDP 2009. He was also the program chair of IEEE CSE 2014, the general chair of IEEE CSE 2015, the executive chair of IEEE ScalCom 2015, the general chair of IEEE ScalCom 2016, IEEE UIC 2016, and IEEE ATC 2016, and the general cochair of IEEE iThings 2013.
    Julien Bourgeois (Julien.Bourgeois@univ-fcomte.fr) is a professor of computer science at the University of Franche-Comté (UFC) in France. He is part of the FEMTOST institute (UMR CNRS 6174) where he is leading the complex networks team. His research interests are in distributed intelligent MEMS (DiMEMS), P2P networks and security management for complex networks. He has been invited professor at Carnegie Mellon University (US) from 9/2012 to 8/2013, at Emory University (US) in 2011 and in Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2010, 2011 and 2015. He led different funded research projects (Smart Surface, Smart Blocks, Computation and coordination for DiMEMS). He has worked for more than 10 years on these topics and has co-authored more than 120 international publications and communications. He has served as PC members and chaired various conferences (IEEE iThings, IEEE HPCC, Euromicro PDP IEEE GreenCom , IEEE CPSCom, GPC, etc. Apart from its research activities, he is acting as a consultant for the French government and for companies.

Smart Cities in Europe and the ALMA Logistics Project

Didier El Baz1, Julien Bourgeois2   

  1. 1. CNRS, LAAS, 7 avenue du colonel Roche, F-31400 Toulouse, France,
    Université de Toulouse, F-31400 Toulouse, France;
    2. Université de Franche-Comté-FEMTO-ST Institute, UMR CNRS 6174, 1 cours Leprince-Ringuet, F-25200 Montbéliard, France
  • 作者简介:Didier El Baz (elbaz@laas.fr) received his Dr. Engineer degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from INSA Toulouse France in 1984 and was a visiting scientist in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT, USA in 1984-1985. Dr. El Baz received the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from INP Toulouse in 1998. His fields of interest are in parallel and distributed computing, combinatorial optimization and IoT. Dr. El Baz has co-authored more than 120 international publications. He was the program chair of International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Networked - Based Processing (PDP) 2008 and PDP 2009. He was also the program chair of IEEE CSE 2014, the general chair of IEEE CSE 2015, the executive chair of IEEE ScalCom 2015, the general chair of IEEE ScalCom 2016, IEEE UIC 2016, and IEEE ATC 2016, and the general cochair of IEEE iThings 2013.
    Julien Bourgeois (Julien.Bourgeois@univ-fcomte.fr) is a professor of computer science at the University of Franche-Comté (UFC) in France. He is part of the FEMTOST institute (UMR CNRS 6174) where he is leading the complex networks team. His research interests are in distributed intelligent MEMS (DiMEMS), P2P networks and security management for complex networks. He has been invited professor at Carnegie Mellon University (US) from 9/2012 to 8/2013, at Emory University (US) in 2011 and in Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2010, 2011 and 2015. He led different funded research projects (Smart Surface, Smart Blocks, Computation and coordination for DiMEMS). He has worked for more than 10 years on these topics and has co-authored more than 120 international publications and communications. He has served as PC members and chaired various conferences (IEEE iThings, IEEE HPCC, Euromicro PDP IEEE GreenCom , IEEE CPSCom, GPC, etc. Apart from its research activities, he is acting as a consultant for the French government and for companies.

Abstract: In this paper, a brief survey of smart citiy projects in Europe is presented. This survey shows the extent of transport and logistics in smart cities. We concentrate on a smart city project we have been working on that is related to A Logistic Mobile Application (ALMA). The application is based on Internet of Things and combines a communication infrastructure and a High Performance Computing infrastructure in order to deliver mobile logistic services with high quality of service and adaptation to the dynamic nature of logistic operations.

Key words: smart cities, Internet of Things, logistics, combinatorial optimization, high performance computing

摘要: In this paper, a brief survey of smart citiy projects in Europe is presented. This survey shows the extent of transport and logistics in smart cities. We concentrate on a smart city project we have been working on that is related to A Logistic Mobile Application (ALMA). The application is based on Internet of Things and combines a communication infrastructure and a High Performance Computing infrastructure in order to deliver mobile logistic services with high quality of service and adaptation to the dynamic nature of logistic operations.

关键词: smart cities, Internet of Things, logistics, combinatorial optimization, high performance computing