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Towards a socially responsible smart city: dynamic resource allocation for smarter community service

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As a city becomes smarter, the integrated networks of engineered cyber and physical elements provide the capability to greatly improve the quality of life of its citizens. In order to leverage these capabilities to benefit all classes of society, we propose a framework that balances the supply and demand of available resources while maximizing the social welfare of people-in-need by utilizing cyber-physical infrastructure in smart cities. We show through numerical simulations that our proposed framework can reduce the amount of resources wasted by 25% through intelligently assigning the location of services and dynamically pairing resources to different homeless populations.

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      BuildSys '17: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments
      November 2017
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      ISBN:9781450355445
      DOI:10.1145/3137133
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      1. algorithmic services
      2. allocation
      3. automation
      4. community service
      5. fairness
      6. service design
      7. smart city

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