A mashup-based application for the smart city problematic

Abstract

A mashup is an application that combines data and functionalities from more than one source. It groups disparate data in ways that enable users to do new things or accomplish common tasks with newfound efficiency. The introduction of mashup applications and their increasing use by users in the field of e-Learning and e-commerce highlights new issues in a context called the “smart city”. Indeed, transportation based on private cars, public transportation services and shared bicycles need appropriate user interfaces, which can be “mashuped” to allow an integrated approach to transportation related to weather conditions, real-time traffic situations and personal preferences. These new needs for composition and combination (orchestration) of existing web services and their underlying user interfaces are good examples of mashuping. First, we provide in this paper some valuable explanations on two kinds of orchestration: service orchestration and HCI (Human Computer Interface) orchestration. Secondly, we apply this global approach to the context of “smart cities”.