Marco Fanfani, Luciano Alessandro Ipsaro Palesi, Paolo Nesi
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Abstract
Digital twins are evermore adopted for planning activities in smart city and industrial contexts, thus requiring platforms able to handle their complexity, continuously adapting and improving data flow business logic behind to the user needs. To respond to such needs microservice architecture paradigm and business logic scripting solutions can be exploited. They should include facilities for data ingestion, transformation, visualization & event driven user interaction, formal definition of functional aspects, exploitation and management of data analytics and simulation, interoperability with external services of any kind, etc. To provide an easy and quick development tools, a large number of microservice has been formalized in a suite of new Nodes for the Node-RED framework and distributed in terms of Libraries via JS Foundation. The proposed suites of nodes (e.g., Snap4City libraries on Node-RED) are widely adopted by academic and industrial groups and fully integrated into Snap4City, an open-source platform for digital twins realization which can be used on cloud and on premise.
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SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today''s research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains. SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact. To this end, SoftwareX aims to support publication of research software in such a way that: The software is given a stamp of scientific relevance, and provided with a peer-reviewed recognition of scientific impact; The software developers are given the credits they deserve; The software is citable, allowing traditional metrics of scientific excellence to apply; The academic career paths of software developers are supported rather than hindered; The software is publicly available for inspection, validation, and re-use. Above all, SoftwareX aims to inform researchers about software applications, tools and libraries with a (proven) potential to impact the process of scientific discovery in various domains. The journal is multidisciplinary and accepts submissions from within and across subject domains such as those represented within the broad thematic areas below: Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Medical and Biological Sciences; Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Originating from these broad thematic areas, the journal also welcomes submissions of software that works in cross cutting thematic areas, such as citizen science, cybersecurity, digital economy, energy, global resource stewardship, health and wellbeing, etcetera. SoftwareX specifically aims to accept submissions representing domain-independent software that may impact more than one research domain.