Spatiotemporal Intelligence in Smart Cities
A Special Issue of Smart Cities (ISSN 2624-6511) belonging to the section "Artificial Intelligence and LLM Agents for Data-Driven Decisions in Smart Cities".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 839
Editors
Interests: urban computing; spatio-temporal data; intelligent transportation; computational social science
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite scholars to contribute to this Special Issue exploring the frontier of urban Spatiotemporal Intelligence (STI). While smart cities generate massive data, translating it into actionable insights remains fundamentally challenged by complex spatiotemporal dynamics. Furthermore, overcoming data scarcity through few-shot learning and ensuring rigorous data privacy in decentralized systems are critical bottlenecks. Recently, the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened unprecedented opportunities for complex urban reasoning and decision-making. We are particularly interested in how these advanced methodologies can transform critical urban subsystems, such as intelligent transportation and rail transit scheduling, crowd dynamics and pedestrian flow management, as well as the spatiotemporal optimization of communication networks. We welcome original research addressing these core challenges, spanning innovative algorithms, privacy-preserving frameworks, and LLM-driven urban applications, to collaboratively shape resilient and intelligent urban futures.
Dr. Guangyin Jin
Dr. Yuxuan Liang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- spatiotemporal intelligence
- urban computing
- urban dynamics
- big data mining
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