System-oriented approach to smart cities

In this paper a new pragmatic framework covering the different challenges of smart city initiatives is provided. The authors build a theoretical foundation and formulate its consequence i.e. the needed shift from the traditional perspective into new research directions. There are many research projects addressing the different aspects of smart city initiative. The authors aim on further enhancement of this framework, to suit directly the different projects from the real life while maintain the theoretical soundness. Additionally, multiagent systems are proposed and discussed as the approach able to address the different constraints and challenges.