Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technology for Smart Cities

Dear Colleagues,

The spread of smart cities and the resulting increase in the number of devices and users involved pose many challenges to making the best use of available data, such as the need for techniques for processing large masses of heterogeneous data and enhancing privacy and traceability.

Both blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies are helping to address the challenges of smart cities. Indeed, although artificial intelligence provides methods for representing, learning and reasoning about complex information, blockchain technology offers programs whose correct execution is automatically applied without relying on a trusted authority.

This Special Issue is dedicated to interdisciplinary research in the areas of blockchain and AI systems for smart cities. It calls for cutting-edge contributions to fundamental theoretical research as well as its application in practice. This Special Issue covers, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Design, models and specifications of systems and services for smart cities;
• Machine learning and deep learning methods for smart cities;
• Blockchain-based solutions for smart cities;
• Smart contracts for smart cities;
• Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) for smart cities;
• Privacy, security and trust;
• People and objects positioning/detection;
• Embedded systems and software for smart cities;
• Fog and edge computing;
• Smart grids and smart infrastructures;
• Smart city applications (e.g., health, transport, tourism, logistics);
• Proofs-of-concept of smart systems;
• Implementation, integration, testing and deployment issues.

Dr. Alessandro Sebastian Podda
Dr. Livio Pompianu
Guest Editors

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