A scientific paper entitled “Linked Data Analytics in Interdisciplinary Studies: the Health Impact of Air Pollution in Urban Areas” has been edited by UBITECH and published at the IEEE Access Journal* in the Special Section for Smart Cities. At this paper, Eleni Fotopoulou, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Panagiotis Hasapis, George Tsiolis and Thanassis Bouras – along with other co-authors – propose a novel approach towards the production and consumption of linked data analytics in urban environments. The approach is based on the exploitation of linked data principles, enhancing the ability of managing and processing of data, in ways not available before. In addition to the description of the overall technical approach, the application of the proposed solution into a real-life scenario for examining the health impact of outdoor air pollution in urban areas within an international, national and regional perspective is detailed. A set of interesting results are produced along with their interpretation towards the provision of suggestions for policy making purposes. The paper has been prepared based on UBITECH’s work within the LinDA FP7 and ENTROPY Horizon 2020 project and is publicly available here.
* IEEE Access is an award-winning, multidisciplinary, all-electronic archival journal continuously presenting the results of original research or development across all of IEEE’s fields of interest. IEEE Access received the 2015 PROSE Award for Best New Journal in STM (science, technology, and medicine) and one of its articles was awarded the 2015 Donald G. Fink Prized Paper Award, while it has been accepted into the Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) and anticipates its impact factor to be announced in June 2016.
