This open access book defines the field of Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering, identifying a clear scope of what constitutes “smart” in the context of digital technologies, develops a cross-field perspective, provides insights into various related disciplines, and offers illustrative examples of existing works in the field.
To this end, it contains thirteen chapters divided into four parts: “Fundamentals of Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering” begins with an exploration of the concept of Smart Life, defines a detailed taxonomy of smart applications and their evolution over time, and, finally, delivers a comprehensive review of social, behavioral, and ethical considerations. Next, “Conceptual Contributions to Smart Life” explores innovative ideas in smart environment, smart home, smart city, and smart tourism. Subsequently, “Smart Life Applications” examines real-world implementations and their impact on various domains including viticulture, elevators, and overtourism. Eventually, “Experience Reports of Smart Life Applications” presents smart city experiences of the cities of Leuven and Monserrate respectively.
Written for researchers and industrial professionals from a very large set of fields, this book explores the fascinating domain of smart technologies and their impact on our daily lives and brings together the works around societal, methodological, and technological aspects of Smart Life.
Elena Kornyshova is Associate Professor at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris. Her main research domains are method and process engineering, decision-making, enterprise architecture, and digitalization. She is co-chair of the IFIP WG8.1 Task Group on Smart Life Engineering and has significant experience in the industry and consultancy sector mainly in the fields of information systems engineering and enterprise architecture.
Rébecca Deneckère is Associate Professor at Centre de Recherche en Informatique (CRI) of the University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her main research interests are method engineering, decision making in information systems and intentional process mining. She is a member of the IFIP Working Group 8.1 on Design and Evaluation of Information Systems and co-chair of the IFIP Task Group on Smart Life Engineering.
Sjaak Brinkkemper is Full Professor of Software Production at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University. He leads a group of about twenty-five researchers specialized in product development and software entrepreneurship. His main research interests are in architecting for healthcare, applied machine learning, requirements engineering, and method engineering.
