Innovations and Applications in Smart Sustainable Cities and Communities
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2022) | Viewed by 22762
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cognitive computing; artificial intelligence; data science; bioinformatics; innovation; big data research; data mining; emerging technologies; information systems; technology driven innovation; knowledge management; semantic web
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2. Effat College of Business, Effat University, Jeddah 21551, Saudi Arabia
Interests: smart cities; smart villages; international political economy (IPE); information and communication technology (ICT)
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Interests: big data; bioinformatics; computational intelligence; data science; energy monitoring and management; intelligent transportation; optimization; semantic web
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
What makes a city and community smart sustainable? This question not only is believed to have numerous potential answers, but it also provides opportunities for a wide range of applications within today’s cities and communities, for instance, urban planning, policy making, governance, migration, education, energy management, health science, transportation, and logistics. These are reinforced by intricate innovations, such as Internet of Things (IoT), big data, shallow and deep machine learning, optimization, cloud/fog/edge computing, socially aware computing, and blockchain.
Generally, people are adopting a human-centric approach which puts citizens at the center of the smart sustainable transformation revolution. This paves the way toward smart sustainable cities, and communities that increase life quality, social engagement, efficiency, security, privacy, robustness, and sustainability. We could consider previous decades as the development phase of theories, platforms, tools, hardware, and software, whereas we are now ready to enjoy the fruitful results of various applications everywhere.
This Special Issue is intended to report high-quality research on new directions and innovations towards applications in smart sustainable cities and communities, more specifically state-of-the-art approaches, methodologies, and systems for the design, development, deployment, and innovative use of those smart and sustainable technologies for providing insights. To exchange knowledge, all submissions are very welcome that share personal opinions on future directions (as sustainability is a continuous process and development) in smart sustainable cities and communities, as concluding paragraphs. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary approaches
- Social science and political science
- Governance and civic engagement
- Transportation, mobility, and logistics management
- Internet of Things applications
- Machine learning algorithms including shallow and deep learning
- Education and learning analytics
- Energy and wastage reduction
- Semantic and sentiment analysis
- Complex network
- Pilot studies and case studies
- Literature review in smart cities and communities
- Meta-analysis in smart cities and communities
- Smart cities, smart communities, smart applications and the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic
Prof. Anna Visvizi
Dr. Kwok Tai Chui
Guest Editors
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