Social Internet of Things (SIoT)

A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".

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Department of Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Marche, 60121 Ancona, Italy
Interests: social network analysis; databases; artificial intelligence; business intelligence; social IoT
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Department of Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Marche, 60121 Ancona, Italy
Interests: social and complex network analysis; hypernetwork and network science; Internet of Things; advanced algorithms for sequences comparison; pattern mining; logic programming; data science
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Department of Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Marche, 60121 Ancona, Italy
Interests: big data analytics; social network analysis; deep learning; machine learning
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Dear Colleagues,

The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) paradigm is a very promising interdisciplinary research and application field. It derives from the integration of concepts, ideas, and approaches coming from social networking and the Internet of Things. It can become one of the leading technologies of Society 5.0, similarly to how the IoT has been for Industry 4.0. Indeed, currently, a large amount of other relationships among smart objects can be considered. This great variety and variability, along with the pervasive development of the IoT, poses new challenges to address for academy, industry, and standards bodies. On the other hand, adding more and more semantics to smart objects can enable them to perform tasks and activities that would have been unimaginable until recently. Despite the important results already obtained, the SIoT paradigm, as well as the most recent ones derived from it such as the MIoT (Multi-IoT paradigm), are still in their early stage. To enable the paradigm to reach its full potential, the contribution of disparate research fields (e.g., social network analysis, semantic web, fuzzy logic, Industry 4.0, Society 5.0, big data, smart data analytics, machine learning, deep learning, cybersecurity, distributed computing and cloud, eco-sustainable systems, and human-centered systems, just to cite a few) is compulsory.

Prof. Dr. Domenico Ursino
Dr. Francesco Cauteruccio
Dr. Luca Virgili
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Keywords

  • new architectures for the SIoT
  • multi-IoT paradigm
  • information Integration in the SIoT
  • multiple Networks of Things
  • knowledge Management in the SIoT
  • data Analytics in the SIoT
  • cybersecurity in the SIoT
  • trust and reputation of smart objects
  • SIoT and Industry 4.0
  • SIoT and Society 5.0
  • SIoT and distributed computing
  • SIoT and cloud
  • smart object profiling
  • SIoT and healthcare
  • SIoT and cultural heritage
  • SIoT and agriculture
  • SIoT and manufacturing
  • SIoT and automation
  • SIoT in mechatronic
  • SIoT and crowdsensing
  • SIoT and smart cities
  • SIoT and autonomous driving systems
  • legal Issues for the SIoT

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Digital Communication and Social Organizations: An Evaluation of the Communication Strategies of the Most-Valued NGOs Worldwide
by Andrea Moreno-Cabanillas, Elizabet Castillero-Ostio and Antonio Castillo-Esparcia
Future Internet 2024, 16(1), 26; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/fi16010026 - 13 Jan 2024
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The communication of organizations with their audiences has undergone changes thanks to the Internet. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), as influential groups, are no exception, as much of their activism takes place through grassroots digital lobbying. The consolidation of Web 2.0 has not only provided [...] Read more.
The communication of organizations with their audiences has undergone changes thanks to the Internet. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), as influential groups, are no exception, as much of their activism takes place through grassroots digital lobbying. The consolidation of Web 2.0 has not only provided social organizations with a new and powerful tool for disseminating information but also brought about significant changes in the relationship between nonprofit organizations and their diverse audiences. This has facilitated and improved interaction between them. The purpose of this article is to analyze the level of interactivity implemented on the websites of leading NGOs worldwide and their presence on social networks, with the aim of assessing whether these influential groups are moving towards more dialogic systems in relation to their audience. The results reveal that NGOs have a high degree of interactivity in the tools used to present and disseminate information on their websites. However, not all maintain the same level of interactivity in the resources available for interaction with Internet users, as very few have high interactivity regarding bidirectional resources. It was concluded that international non-governmental organizations still suffer from certain shortcomings in the strategic management of digital communication on their web platforms, while, on the other hand, a strong presence can be noted on the most-popular social networks. Full article
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