Adopting an ABCs Authentication Framework for Collective Intelligent eBusiness Models in Smart Cities

Nowadays, the majority of humans live in a world ofinterconnected cities. A contemporary city attempts to improve the quality of citizens' life and its economy by integrating digital infrastructures with the physical city (smart city). Moreover, citizens in smart cities are playing the centralrole in the majority of eBusiness models that are based onCollective Intelligent decision making applications. However, citizens avoid the participation in such applications by providing data because they feel that there is a risk of correlating their activities and data with their identities. Thus, there is a need to protect citizens' privacy in the territory of a smart city while encouraging them to participate in the establishment of new markets. In this paper, the encapsulation of an ABCs based authentication system in a generic eBusiness model that provides Collective Intelligent eServices in Smart Cities is presented. In the emerging eBusiness Model, the user privacy/anonymity hasa central role which increases user incentives to participatein the establishment of new markets and products in a city territory.