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Framework for Assessing the Smartness Maturity Level of Villages

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Abstract

In this work, we have developed the first version of a smartness assessment framework that allows the representatives from a village to make a self-evaluation of its current status based on smartness criteria identified by an international group of experts. The framework allows a detailed evaluation of six different aspects including Mobility, Governance, Economy, Environment, Living, People, with weightings of the criteria using the multi-criteria analysis Electre Tri. In addition, the results enable further data analysis and offers an input for different functionality like identification of best practices and collaboration and matchmaking among potential stakeholders. In addition, we show the effectiveness of the proposed framework by means of a case study on a test area around the European Alpine space.

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  • Rural development
  • Smart villages
  • User-centered data analytics

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Acknowledgements

This work has been developed within the SmartVillages project, Smart Digital Transformation of Villages in the Alpine Space, co-funded by Interreg Alpine Space (20182021). The authors would like to express the appreciation to SmartVillages project members for their contribution.

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  1. Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Softwarepark 21, 4232, Hagenberg, Austria

    Jorge Martinez-Gil & Mario Pichler

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Koroška cesta 46, 2000, Maribor, Slovenia

    Tina Beranič, Lucija Brezočnik & Muhamed Turkanović

  3. Poliedra-Politecnico di Milano, via G. Colombo 40, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Gianluca Lentini, Francesca Polettini, Alessandro Lué & Alberto Colorni Vitale

  4. ADRETS, 69 rue Carnot, 05000, Gap, France

    Guillaume Doukhan & Claire Belet

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  3. University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

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  4. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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  5. University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

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  6. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

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  7. Poznań University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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Martinez-Gil, J. et al. (2019). Framework for Assessing the Smartness Maturity Level of Villages. In: , et al. New Trends in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1064. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30278-8_48

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