Smart City and Multi-Agent Systems

Dear Colleagues,

There are many ways to interpret the concept of a “smart city”. According to BSI PAS 180:2014, a smart city is “the effective integration of physical, digital and human systems in the built environment to deliver a sustainable, prosperous and inclusive future for its citizens.” In a smart city, public issues are solved using information and communication technologies (ICT) with the engagement of various stakeholders who act in partnership with the city authorities (Manville et al., 2014). Research related to the software agent has been conducted since the 1970s, and some of the promising topics are the modeling of communities and citizens and the infrastructure of urban systems, sensors, and many others using the concept of the agent.

The Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences, “Smart City and Multi-Agent Systems” aims at a multidimensional debate on the use of multi-agent systems, agent-based modeling, simulation systems for the process of shaping smart cities, and processing and use of data from city sensors, including analysis of various spatial data, both official and social. Furthermore, the Special Issue aims to cover recent advances in the field of citizens’ 'quality-of-life' research using agent-based models, simulation of societies and smart city organizations using holonic systems, research on the emergence behavior in complex societies modeled by the multi-agent system, as well as projects or implementations of applications using the agent programming paradigm.

Prof. Dr. Robert Olszewski
Dr. Piotr Pałka
Guest Editor

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