Multi-Web, event-centric urban information integration

In this paper, we present the MI-Search approach for enabling urban users to perform event-centric surfing of a multiplicity of web contents. MI-Search aims at exploiting traditional web sites and spontaneous user comments/posts in an integrated way, by relying on web data extracted from different sources and systems about the events of a selected urban space. The notion of smart city view is introduced in the paper to enforce a tailored exploration of these web contents according to the personal user interests expressed as keywords, geo-location constraints, and user-agenda appointments.