Title: Towards a Service-oriented Platform for Intelligent Apps in Intermediate Cities,
Abstract: Smart cities are a growing trend in many cities in Argentina. In particular,
the so-called intermediate cities present a context and requirements different
from those of large cities with respect to smart cities. One aspect of
relevance is to encourage the development of applications (generally for mobile
devices) that enable citizens to take advantage of data and services normally
associated with the city, for example, in the urban mobility domain. In this
work, a platform is proposed for intermediate cities that provide "high level"
services and that allow the construction of software applications that consume
those services. Our platform-centric strategy focused aims to integrate systems
and heterogeneous data sources, and provide "intelligent" services to different
applications. Examples of these services include: construction of user
profiles, recommending local events, and collaborative sensing based on data
mining techniques, among others. In this work, the design of this platform
(currently in progress) is described, and experiences of applications for urban
mobility are discussed, which are being migrated in the form of reusable
services provided by the platform