Smart City Innovation and Resilience in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Dear Colleagues,

Smart cities aim at improving the quality of life of citizens by accounting for environmental sustainability. However, the increasing complexity and interrelationships of smart city services pose several issues on smart city resilience that are among the challenges of current research. Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, such as machine learning, deep learning, computational creativity, and semantics, are indeed used to improve the methods and tools devoted to collecting and analyzing citizens’ opinions, sensing people’s behaviors, organizing knowledge, predicting and forecasting consequences of hazardous events, and, more in general, supporting decisional processes. However, other than enabling and facilitating these activities, AI is also transforming the way people live.

The goal of this Special Issue is to stimulate the debate on both AI applications and impacts for smart cities, including the expected benefits and the possible risks originating from their use. The intent is to provide a deep account for novel and disruptive AI approaches to smart city innovation and resilience of urban areas and communities. Focus on the resilience of AI systems themselves, such as designing dependable systems, is also appreciated. Furthermore, the Special Issue welcomes visionary papers related to AI safety, such as handling automation bias and sustaining human performance, and social aspects like handover and human–machine communication.

Dr. Antonio De Nicola
Dr. Paola Rizzi
Dr. Maria Luisa Villani
Guest Editors

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