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A Plug&Play approach for modeling and simulating applications in the era of internet of social things
IET Smart Cities
  • Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University
  • Mohamed Sellami, Institut Mines-Télécom
  • Fatma Masmoudi, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University
  • Muhammad Asim
  • Abdul Haseeb, Liverpool John Moores University
  • Thar Baker, Liverpool John Moores University
  • Fadwa Yahya, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University
ORCID Identifiers

0000-0002-5166-4873

Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-30-2021
Abstract

This article presents an approach to model and simulate Plug&Play social things. Confined into silos, existing (not social) things are restricted to basic operations like sensing and actuating, which deprive them from participating in the satisfaction of complex business applications. Contrarily, social things are expected to engage in collaborative scenarios and to tap into specific relations that connect them to peers when achieving these scenarios. These relations are referred to as complimentary, antagonism, and competition, and allow to develop networks of things. To capitalize on such networks, the approach to model and simulate Plug&Play social things puts forward four stages that are referred to as connecting to demystify social relations between things, influencing to examine the impact of social relations on things, playing to make things perform while considering influence, and incentivizing to reward things based on their performance. A smart system for elderly the care centers has been developed to showcase the technical doability of Plug&Play social things. The system is an integrated development environment allowing IoT engineers to define the collaboration of social things, thanks to a set of drag&drop operations.

Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Hybrid: This publication is openly available in a subscription-based journal/series
Citation Information
Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Sellami, Fatma Masmoudi, Muhammad Asim, et al.. "A Plug&Play approach for modeling and simulating applications in the era of internet of social things" IET Smart Cities Vol. 3 Iss. 1 (2021) p. 29 - 40
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zakaria-maamar/33/