Sustainable Service-Oriented Architecture for Smart City Development

Nowadays, smart cities are becoming very popular and serve to increase the life qualities of citizens. In the framework of smart cities, software platforms and applications are meant to provide different services to citizens, and to increase efficiency in government and non-government services in daily lives of people. The main driver of smart cities are software platforms and applications. Thus, all citizen services are provided by software applications and platforms consisting of various government and non-government services. Development, maintenance and sustainability of such large software applications is a challenge which requires well-established and sustainable software architectures. This paper addresses to the problem of sustainable software architectures for sustainable smart city application development as its central focus.