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Impact 2015

Peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and conference presentations:

  • D. Papadaskalopoulos and G. Strbac, “Price-based control of flexible loads for distribution network management,” 23rd International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED), Lyon, France, 15-18 June 2015, accepted.
  •  D. Papadaskalopoulos, P. Fatouros and G. Strbac, “Addressing demand response concentration under dynamic pricing,” 2013 IEEE PowerTech Conference, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 29 June-2 July 2015, abstract accepted.
  • Pittaway, Quari-Saremi & Montazemi Academy of Management Conference: 2015. How Heterogeneous Institutional Logics Emerge in a Field: Implications for Governance of Technology-Induced Risk

Keynotes, Presentations and Speeches:

Papers in press: 

  • Polak, J., Autio, E., Ozaki, R., Ranger, K., 2015. Rebooting Smart Cities. Submitted to Institute of Civil Engineers Journal
  • Montazemi & Pittaway. 2014. Seeking the 'Smart' in Cities: Managing the Process of Innovating with IT. California Management Review. Special edition on the City as Innovation Platform

 


 

Impact 2014

Peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and conference presentations:

  • Magno, M., Boyle, D., Brunelli, D., Popovici, E., Benini, L., "Ensuring Survivability of Resource-Intensive Sensor Networks Through Ultra-Low Power Overlays," Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on, vol.10, no.2, pp.946-956, May 2014 doi: 10.1109/TII.2013.2295198
  • Magno, M., Boyle, D., Brunelli, D., O'Flynn, B., Popovici, E., Benini, L., "Extended Wireless Monitoring Through Intelligent Hybrid Energy Supply," Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on, vol.61, no.4, pp.1871-1881, April 2014.
  • Le Vine S, Adamou O, Polak J., (2014) Predicting new forms of activity/mobility patterns enabled by shared-mobility services through a needs-based stated-response method: Case study of grocery shopping, Transport Policy, Vol:32, ISSN:0967-070X, Pages:60-68
  • Le Vine S, Latinopoulos C, Polak J., (2014) Establishing the linkages between online activity and car use: Evidence from a combined travel diary and online-activity pseudo-diary dataset, Transportation Research Record-Series
  • Alam JB, Wadud Z, Alam JB, Polak JW., (2013) Energy demand and economic consequences of transport policy, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, Vol:10, ISSN:1735-1472, Pages:1075-1082
  • Parmar R, Mackenzie I, Cohn D, Gann D., (2014) The New Patterns of Innovation, Harvard Business Review, Vol:92, ISSN:0017-8012, Pages:86-95

Books/Chapters:

  • Holler J, Tsiatsis V, Mulligan C, Avesand S, Karnouskos S, Boyle D., (2014) ‘From Machine-to-Machine to the Internet of Things: Introduction to a New Age of Intelligence’, Academic Press - Elsevier. ISBN: 9780124076846
  • Benazzouz, Y., Boyle, D. ‘Argumentation-based Conflict Resolution in Pervasive Services’, in Negotiation and Argumentation in Multi-agent Systems. eds. Lopes, F., Coelho, H. Bentham Science, 2014, pp 399-419 DOI: 10.2174/97816080582421140101
  • Autio E, Thomas LDW, (2014) ‘Innovation Ecosystems: Implications for Innovation Management’, in Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management, London: Oxford University Press
  • Ozaki R., Dodgson M., ‘Consumption of Innovation’, in The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 271-289

Conference papers:

  • Bustos-Turu G, van Dam K, Acha S, Shah N., (2013) A Review of Agent-based Modelling for Transport Electrification Analysis, Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in Transportation Planning and Operations, 30 September - 2 October 2013, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
  • Bustos-Turu G, van Dam K, Acha S, Shah N., (2014) A systems approach to understanding the impact of electric vehicle charging infrastructure on grid services, submitted for review to the Energy Systems Conference, 24-25 June 2014, London, UK
  • O'Connell, E., O'Flynn, B., Boyle, D., "Energy & reliability optimal MAC for WSNs," Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), 2014 10th IEEE International Conference on the, pp.1,8, 1-3 April 2014 doi: 10.1109/DRCN.2014.6816150
  • Autio E, Thomas LDW, (2013), Tilting the playing field: Towards a strategic theory of endogenous action, at Strategic Management Society Lake Geneva Special Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 21-23, 2013.
  • Thomas LDW, Autio E, (accepted), The fifth facet: The ecosystem as organizational field, at Academy of Management Annual Conference 2014, Philadelphia, August 1-5, 2014.
  • Thomas LDW, Autio E, Gann DM (submitted), Value creation and appropriation in platform ecosystems, at Strategic Management Society Lake Geneva Special Conference, Madrid, Spain, September 21-23, 2014.
  • Thomas LDW, Autio E, Gann DM (submitted), Drivers of ecosystem emergence, at Strategic Management Society Lake Geneva Special Conference, Madrid, Spain, September 21-23, 2014.
  • O’Flynn, B., Wörsching, H., Boyle, D. “Next Generation Structural Health Monitoring using Wireless Sensor Network Technology”, (to appear) proc. Civil Engineering Research in Ireland. Belfast, UK. 28-29 August 2014.
  • Lee, C., Birch, D. Wu, C., Silva, D. Tsinalis, O., Li, Y., Yan; S., Ghanem, M.; Guo, Y. "Building a generic platform for big sensor data application," Big Data, 2013 IEEE International Conference on , pp.94,102, 6-9 Oct. 2013
  • Bustos-Turu, G., van Dam, K.H., Acha, S. and Shah, N. (2014) A systems approach to understanding the impact of electric vehicle charging infrastructure on grid services, accepted for the Energy Systems Conference, 24-25 June 2014, London, UK
  • Van Dam, K.H., van der Sanden, M.C.A. and Stragier, J. (2014) Strategic decision support for marketing communication: an agent- based simulation of consumer attitudes to smart home appliances, accepted for the Social Simulation Conference 2014 SSC'14, Barcelona, September 2014
  • Daina, N., Sivakumar, A. and J. Polak (2014) Empirically Grounded Electro-mobility Micro-simulations in Smart Grid Contexts, 46th Annual Universities’ Transport Study Group (UTSG) Conference, Newcastle, January 2014

Presentations:

  • DE All Hands – November 2013, Salford, UK – Exploring Smart in the Urban Context: Cities, Citizens and Technology. O’Connor J, Ozaki R, 
  • DE2013 – November 2013, Salford, UK – Concinnity: A Digital City Exchange Platform. Birch D, Tsinalis O, van Dam K, Guo Y.,
  • Broadband Access in the EU: An assessment of future economic benefits. Financing and Assessing Large scale infrastructure projects, European Parliament, Brussels. Koutroumpis P.
  • 8th Alhambra Experimental Workshop – October 2013 University LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy – Information-Revelation and Coordination in a Battle of Sexes with two-sided Private Information. Cabrales A, Drouvelis M, Gurguc Z, Ray I.
  • Van Dam “Using Ontologies to store, share and apply city data in simulation models”, keynote presentation at the VoCamp on “Integrating multiple domains and scales”, School of Architecture and Engineering La Salle, Barcelona, Spain, 13-14 February 2014
  •  Van Dam “Agent-based modelling for decision support tools”, Science Education and Communication seminar, TU Delft, the Netherlands, 4 March 2014
  •  Van Dam “Modelling electric vehicle demand in London using the Digital City Exchange platform”, Systems-NET seminar, 9th April 2014

Media and press:

  • PODCAST – Smart Cities: What will the cities of the future look like? –  Eric Yeatman speaks to CBI on what the cities of the future will look like (February 2014)
  • ARTICLE – The multiplexed metropolis–David Gann, Nick Leon and Irving Wladawsky-Berger quoted in The Economist on Smart Cities (September 2013)
  • ARTICLE – Global data science hub launched at Imperial College London – Yike Guo on the launch of the Data Sciences. China.org and Shanghai Daily
  • ARTICLE - IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Technology News (ITeN) feature on Boyle, D. et al. ‘Extended Wireless Monitoring through Intelligent Hybrid Energy Supply’.

Events:

  • DCE workshop – ‘Data Economy in the Big Data Era’ at the IEEE Big Data Conference – October 2013, Santa Clara, USA. Guo Y, Leiponen A.
  • Privacy and the Digital City Event. Privacy and the digital city panel discussion – Discussion panel featuring Angela Sasse – Director of the Science of Cyber Security Research Institute Ashley Winton – Partner in the Intellectual Property & Technology Group at White & Case LLP Nick Pickles – Director of Big Brother Watch Hosted by Hankin C, Yeatman E, Hoehn T, O’Conner J
  • Privacy and the Digital City Event. The Internet of Everyone Else's Things David Birch – Director of Consult Hyperion Hosted by Hankin C, Yeatman E, Hoehn T, O’Conner J

Papers in press:

  • Papadaskalopoulos D, Pudjianto D, and Strbac G, Decentralized Coordination of Microgrids with Flexible Demand and Energy Storage, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, Special Issue on Microgrids for Sustainable Energy Systems, accepted for publication
  • O’Connell E, O’Flynn B, Boyle D., “LAR: Latency Aware Routing for Duty-Cycled Multi-Hop Networks”, Microelectronics Journal
  • O’Connell E, Cionca V, O’Flynn B, Boyle D., “Cross layer design for low power, low delay, high reliability radio duty-cycled multi-hop WSNs”, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks
  • Thomas LDW, Autio E., Gann DM. 2014 Architectural leverage: Putting platforms in context, Academy of Management Perspectives (in print).

Impact 2013

Peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and conference presentations:

  • C.Hsiang Lee, D.Birch, C.Wu, D.Silva, O.Tsinalis, Y.Li, S.Yan, M.Ghanem, Y.Guo “Building a Generic Platform for Big Sensor Data Application” IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2013, Santa Clara CA USA, 6-9th, October 2013.
  • Magno, M., Boyle, D., O’Flynn, B., Brunelli, D., Popovici, E., Benini, L. (2013) ‘Extended wireless structural monitoring through intelligent hybrid energy supply’. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Early Access: DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2267694
  • Boyle, D., Yates, D., Yeatman, E., (2013) ‘Urban Sensor Data Streams: London 2013’, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE computer Society Digital Library, August 2013.
  • Katz, R. L., & Koutroumpis, P. (2013). ‘Measuring digitization: A growth and welfare multiplier’, Technovation, July 2013.
  • Van der Sanden, M.C.A., van Dam, K.H., Stragier, J., Kobus, C.B.A. (2013) Simulation Based Decision Support for Strategic Communication and Marketing Management Concerning the Consumer Introduction of Smart Energy Meters, Journal for Communication Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1(11), July 2013.
  • O'Connell, E., O'Flynn, B., & Boyle, D. (2013), ‘Clocks, latency and energy efficiency in duty cycled, multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks’, in Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI), 2013 5th IEEE International Workshop, pp. 199-204,. IEEE, June 2013.
  • Acha, S., van Dam, K.H., Shah, N. (2013) Spatial and Temporal Electric Vehicle Demand Forecasting in Central London. In Proceedings of CIRED 2013. Stockholm, Sweden, 10th -13th June 2013.
  • D. Papadaskalopoulos and G. Strbac, “Investigation of the impact of flexible loads’ participation in electricity markets,” 22nd International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED), Stockholm, Sweden, 10-13 June 2013.
  • Mulligan, C.E.A.; Olsson, M., (2013) ‘Architectural implications of smart city business models: an evolutionary perspective’, Communications Magazine, IEEE, 51(6), June 2013
  • Gruber, H., Koutroumpis, P., (2013) ‘Competition enhancing regulation and diffusion of innovation: the case of broadband networks’, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 43(2), 168-195, April 2013
  • Pawlak J., Sivakumar A., Polak J.W. (2013) An Imputation Approach to the Fusion of Travel Diary and Lifestyle Data: Application to the Analysis of the Interaction of ICT and Physical Mobility, Conference on New Technologies and Techniques for Statistics (NTTS), Brussels, Belgium, 5-7 March 2013.
  • M. Aunedi and G. Strbac, “Efficient system integration of wind generation through smart charging of electric vehicles,” 8th International Conference and Exhibition on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies, Monte Carlo, France, 27-30 March 2013.
  • L.Barta, D.Boyle, B.O’Flynn, E.Popovici ‘Simplified Commissioning and Maintenance for Wireless Sensor Networks’. Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS), Proceedings of 2013 26th International Conference, Feb 2013.
  • Sivakumar, A., and Polak, J.W. (2013) "Modelling the endogeneity in activity participation and technology holdings: An exploration of data pooling techniques", 92nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC. January 2013.

Books/Chapters:

  • E.Autio, L.Thomas, ‘Innovation Ecosystems: Implications for Innovation Management’, in Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management, London: Oxford University Press, September 2013.
  • Ozaki, R., Dodgson, M., (2013) ‘Consumption and Innovation Management’, in Dodgson, M., Gann, D., Phillips, N. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • S.Acha, and K.H. van Dam "Modelling Electric Vehicle Mobility in Energy Service Networks" in Modelling Distributed Energy Resources in Energy Service Networks, IET Press, ISBN: 978-1-84919-559, April 2013
  • Dam, K.H. van, Nikolic, I, & Lukszo, Z. (Eds). Agent-Based modelling of Socio-Technical Systems. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, ISBN 978-94-007-4932-0, October 2012

Academic Posters:

Awards:

  • L.Suzuki awarded summer school scholarship from SIEMENS to the ‘Intelligent Services for Digital Cities’, September 2013.
  • L.Suzuki awarded Intel Student Ho nor Fellowship– Smart Cities, July 2013.
  • E.Autio, D.Sharapov, L.Thomas awarded conference best paper at the First International Research Exemplars conference for ‘Building ecosystem momentum: The case of AppCampus’, May 2013.

Keynotes, Presentations and Speeches:

  • E. Autio presented at the Academy of Management Professional Development Workshop on Innovation Ecosystems, Orlando, August 2013.
  • R.Ozaki presented at the EIT ICT Lab Smart Energy Summer School on ‘Human Dimensions of Smart Energy Sys tems’, Paris, August 2013.
  • D. Birch presented on ‘Quantitative Design & Digital City Exchange’ at ‘Arup Explores Big Data’ industry event, May 2013.
  • E. Yeatman presented at the MIT Media Lab, Bod y sensors networks conference, May 2013.
  • C. Hankin presented on ‘Ide ntity’, with the Government Digital Service, April 2013.
  • C.Mulligan presented at 19 th Euro pean Wireless Conferenceon ‘Smart Cities’, April 2013.
  • E. Yeatman spoke on the energy panel at the MEMS Industry Group, Amsterdam, March 2013.
  • D. Gann presented at the MIT Centre for Digital Business on ‘London, Innovation and the Digital Economy’, March 2013.
  • C.Mulligan presented at Future Everythingon the ‘Smart Bespoke City’, February 2013.
  • C.Mulligan presented at Women in Telecoms and Technology on ‘Smart Cities, February 2013.

User Engagement, Events and Dissemination:

  • DCE workshop (Y. Guo, A.Leiponen) accepted on ‘Data Economy in the Big Data Era’ at the IEEE Big Data Conference, Silicon Valley, October 2013.
  • The DCE Twitter accounthas 483 followers to date with 583 tweets since launching in October 2011 (as of July 2013).
  • C.Mulligan presented at the 'Future of Open', a day of futurescoping, sharing ideas and practice in the applications of Open both present and imminent, July 2013.
  • DCE exhibited at Imperials Research Celebrationsan annual event held to recognise the excellence of the Business School’s research, June 2013.
  • C.Mulligan and Richard Green comment on discussions at the G8 summit, featured on the Imperial College homepage, June 2013.
  • K.van Dam, J.O’Connor, Z.Gurguc, O. Tsinalis collaborated with Royal College of Art Information Experience Design and Sculpture students for a V&A exhibition, May 2013.
  • DCE advised Chilean government officials on their ‘smart cities’ and digital economy research agenda, May 2013.
  • DCE researchers organised and delivered two events during the Urban Prototyping London festival, April 2013: Hackathon, a weekend challenge to create technology solutions that result in real-world change (subsequently featured in the Wall Street Journal) and a Crackathon, to assess the security and resilience to attack of urban digital technologies.
  • C.Hankin participated in a Tech Foresight 2033 programme through a video on Digital Identity, April 2013.
  • C. Mulligan devised and delivered Urban Prototyping London - a festival focused on Digital Innovation for a Sustainable Society, bringing together technologists, academics, artists, governments and community groups, April 2013.
  • E. Yeatman featured in video for Corporate Partnerships, describing Technical Foresight in machine-to-machine and pervasive sensing, April 2013.
  • K.van Dam, J.O’Connor, Z.Gurguc, O. Tsinalis collaborated with Royal College of Art students on a BT tower project,using DCE research for inspiration and data, March 2013.
  • DCE and the DE Laboratory co-hosted a ‘teacamp’ event with the Government Digital Service (Cabinet Office) on Open Data and Smart Cities, February 2013.

DCE in the Media:

Advisory Positions:

  • K.van Dam becomes member of the Smart Cities Interoperability Technical Committee of the British Standards Institution (BSI), May 2013.
  • C. Hankin appointe d to the DG CONNECTadvisory Forum (successor to IST Advisory Group), March 2013.
  • D. Gann and J. Polak appointed to the Mayor of London’s ‘Smart London Board’ exploring how the capital can best use technolo gy and data, D. Gann to chair the board, March 2013.

Complimentary funding:

  • E. Autio secured £170k funding from Cisco for studying Business Model Innovation in UK Cities.
  • DE Laboratory has been working with a number of other partners (BT, Intel, UCL, IBM, Vodafone , Uni versity of Edin burgh and Institute for Sustainabili ty) t o estab lish a full node o f the European Institute for Innovation and T echnology accelerator programme, ICT Labs, in London. The recent funding r ound resulted in €4 million worth of applications fr om the London partners. In September 2013 Imperial received confirmation that the London colocation centre has been approved, and this will op en i n January 2014.
  • R. Ozaki wins €263k from the European Commission FP7 ICT Programme, September 2013.
  • P.Koutroumpis wins wins £3k NEMODE grant ‘Business models of the app ecosystem’, Ju ly 2013.
  • A. Leiponen, C. Mulligan, P. Koutroumpis and J. Haskel awarded £733,000 from the EPSRC f or ‘Catalysing economic growth: relea sing the value of big data’, July 2013.
  • A.Gawer awarded grant to shape the UK research agenda on Platforms as New Economic Models in the Digital Economy, March 2013.

Working papers/submissions:

  • Journal submission: Thomas, L., Autio, E., ‘Tilting the Playing Field: Towards a Theory of Endogenous Strategic’, submitted to Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, February 2013.
  • Journal submission: Pittaway, J, Montazemi, A., ‘Theoretical framework of dynamic IT capabilities’.
  • Thomas, L. D., Autio, E., & Gann, D., (2012) ‘Architectural leverage: putting platforms in context’, accepted for publication in Academy of Management Perspectives.
  • Bustos-Turu, G., van Dam, K.H., Acha, S. and Shah, N. (in press) A Review of Agent-based Modelling for Transport Electrification Analysis, Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in Transportation Planning and Operations, Blackburg, Virginia, 30 September - 2 October 2013.
  • Birch, D., Tsinalis, O., van Dam, K.H., Lee, C., Wu, C., Ghanem, M. and Guo, Y. (in press) Concinnity: A Digital City Exchange Platform, Proceedings of DE2013, Salford, UK, 4-6 November 2013.
  • D. Papadaskalopoulos and G. Strbac, “Decentralized Participation of Flexible Demand in Electricity Markets, Part I: Market Mechanism,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, to be published.
  • D. Papadaskalopoulos, G. Strbac, P. Mancarella, M. Aunedi and V. Stanojevic, “Decentralized Participation of Flexible Demand in Electricity Markets, Part II: Application with Electric Vehicles and Heat Pump Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, to be published.

Impact 2012

Peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and conference presentations:

Academic Posters:

  • Poster presented by L.Suzuki at the Google Scholars Conference ‘How big is the smart cities challenge’, June 2012.

Awards:

Keynotes, Presentations and Speeches:

User Engagement, Events and Dissemination :

  • Dr John Ba ird (Digital Ec onomy Lead, RCUK and DCE Advisory Board member) invited DCE to host the 2014 All Hand s annual Digital Economy meeting, October 2012.
  • D. Gann hosted Vince Cable (Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills) at Imperial College London to launch the government’s industry and growth strategy, September 2012.
  • C.Mulligan establishes smart city secondments with Ericsson and Groupe Speciale Mobile Association, July 2012.
  • DCE contribute to the Londonscape projectbringing together resources, technologies, citizens and artists, July 2012.
  • DCE co-hosted the Ovum Smart Cities Europeconference, June 2012.
  • DCE hosted an ‘Engaging Stakeholder’ event, updating industry partners and exploring future plans and collaboration, April 2012.
  • The DE Laboratory’s lecture serieshas continued, with guest speakers such as Naveed Sultan (Global Head of Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citigroup Global Transaction Services), Joanna Shields (CEO, Tech City), Sam Parmisiano (President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM).
  • DCE hosted variety of workshops and meetings, exploring collaborations with organisations such as the Royal Borough of Kensington and C helsea, IBM, the Royal College of Art and Government Digital Service (Cabinet office).

DCE in the Media:


Advisory Positions: 

Complimentary funding:

  • C.Hankin, T.Hoehn awarded EPSRC Cybersecurity grant.£493,000, July 2012.
  • The DCE gr ant continues to be leveraged to create new opportunities around smart city research, as well as adjacent Digital Economy projects such as the £4M EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training: Cyber Security, July 2012.
  • Imperial has leveraged DCE research to establish the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cites, part of a £45M research and development project launched by Intel Labs Europe. The collaboration has united Imperial College London, Intel and UCL and aims to address the social, economic, and environmental challenges of city life with computing technology, May 2012.
  • DCE awarded £20,000 creativity@home RCUK funding to generate and nurture creative thinking, February 2012.

Impact 2011 

Digital City Exchange is a five year programme and commenced activity in October 2011.

Keynotes, Presentations and Speeches:

Complimentary funding:

  • Building on the success of DCE, Imperial has formed the Future Cities Centre with Cisco and UCL, exploring how digital technologies can boost the capabilities of energy, health, transport and utility resources in our cities, November 2011.