The Role of Systems Engineering in Smart Cities, Infrastructure and Real Estate
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2025) | Viewed by 2676
Special Issue Editor
Interests: application of artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, machine learning and deep learning in the built environment, such as cities, buildings and infrastructure
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of technical engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate and manage complex systems within a product over its life cycle. These final products can be physical or digital.
The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) promotes the need for improvements in systems engineering practices and education. In addition, ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2023 Systems and software engineering–system life cycle processes establish a common framework of process descriptions for describing the life cycle of systems created by humans. Although systems engineering is indeed not rocket science, it has actually been widely applied in NASA via a Systems Engineering Handbook 1995 SP-610S.
This Special Issue invites academics, researchers, consultants, manufacturers, systems integrators and any other industry professionals to present their work on systems engineering for the built environment in smart cities, real estate and infrastructure. Systems engineering includes systems integrations; interfaces; reliability, availability and safety (RAMS), requirements management; verification and validation (V&V).
The relevant topics include the following:
- Systems engineering in built environment disciplines such as civils, structural, mechanical, electrical, telecoms, fire, etc.;
- Systems engineering in built environment systems such as HVAC, lifts, lighting, power, ICT, etc.;
- Systems engineering in digital built environment products such as BIM/digital twin, virtual reality, SCADA, mobile app, Datalakes, energy management, dashboards, etc.;
- Systems engineering in digital built environment products via new technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, non-fungible tokens and metaverse.
Accepted publications will require one of the below:
- An innovative model or practical innovation in systems engineering;
- Comprehensive quantitative or qualitative analysis;
- Extensive industry reach.
Examples of rejected publications will be as follows:
- Survey articles;
- Case studies based on a single project;
- Theoretical ideas without practical application.
Dr. Will Serrano
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- systems engineering
- smart cities
- infrastructure
- real estate
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