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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-022-02-0228</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">22971</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>E.2 - DATA STORAGE REPRESENTATIONS</subject>
          <subject>H.2.8 - Database Applications</subject>
          <subject>H.2 - DATABASE MANAGEMENT</subject>
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        <article-title>A Data Management Middleware for ITS Services in Smart Cities</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Carafoli</surname>
            <given-names>Luca</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">luca.carafoli@unimore.it</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Mandreoli</surname>
            <given-names>Federica</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Martoglia</surname>
            <given-names>Riccardo</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Penzo</surname>
            <given-names>Wilma</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
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      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">FIM - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy</addr-line>
        <institution>FIM - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Modena</addr-line>
        <country>Italy</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">DISI - University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy</addr-line>
        <institution>DISI - University of Bologna</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Bologna</addr-line>
        <country>Italy</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Luca Carafoli (<email xlink:type="simple">luca.carafoli@unimore.it</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2016</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2016</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>22</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>228</fpage>
      <lpage>246</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/D490775D-E0E6-52E3-A50C-0058E9E0BE0E">D490775D-E0E6-52E3-A50C-0058E9E0BE0E</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5504825">5504825</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>19</day>
          <month>05</month>
          <year>2015</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>29</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2016</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Luca Carafoli, Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Wilma Penzo</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>A major societal challenge to be tackled in megacities is sustainable urban transportation. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) are actually data-centric applications that need to store and query real-time as well as historical/static data from various data sources and have to provide timely responses to users' transportation needs. In this paper we introduce a data management middleware that offers the robustness of a common framework to support the development of smart applications having the above needs. It supports the efficient storage and access to real-time and historical/static data and provides both one-time and continuous query capabilities. While the middleware has been designed to be general and versatile to support data management for any kind of application, in this paper we explore its suitability to ITS smart services also by means of an experimental evaluation conducted on a variety of traffic scenarios.</p>
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