Advanced Technologies in Smart Cities

Dear Colleagues,

World urbanization is an important process: it is predicted that by 2050 about 64% of the developing world and 86% of the developed world will be urbanized. This phenomenon creates enormous social, economic, and environmental changes, which provide opportunities to use resources more efficiently. Furthermore, considering the looming problem of the pandemic, limiting contact between people in tight environments has become one of the major problems facing cities, where space, resources, and transport are increasingly shared.

In this context, advanced technologies as big data, IoT, and artificial intelligence are largely used to cope with ever-growing towns and with problems related to the phenomenon of hyper urbanization, to enhance the organization of urban services, reduce costs and resource consumption, and increase contact between citizens and governments. In other words, advanced technologies make towns and cities become "smarter", solving problems related to the organization of a society in which a large number of people share the resources of cities, such as spaces, services, and public places. Smart city applications are developed to manage urban flows and allow for real-time responses. This Special Issue is intended to provide a forum for academic researchers and technical professionals to exchange their recent works on technological advancements. Topics of interest for publication in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to smart city-related applications of big data, IoT and AI, simheuristics, operational research, and 5G.

Dr. Daniela Mazza
Prof. Daniele Tarchi
Prof. Dr. Angel A. Juan
Guest Editors

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