Civil Systems Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Civil Systems is an emerging discipline that addresses a broad range of research issues relating to sustainable design and management of the built and natural environments. Areas of interest include long-term challenges associated with climate change, sustainable energy systems, management of natural resources, energy and information systems for buildings and cities, urban infrastructure—transportation, power, water, communications—systems modeling and management, smart cities, and cyber-physical systems. For many of these challenges, new types of solutions are now possible as a result of remarkable advances in computer, communications, and sensing technologies that have occurred over the past few decades. For example, aging infrastructure systems can now be replaced by urban systems comprising physical networks connected to cyber (data, information, and software) to support decision-making. These advances provide civil system researchers and practitioners with a multitude of new and exciting problems and challenges to address.

This Special Issue seeks contributions that establish a scholarly foundation for engineering civil systems in the natural and built environment. The contributions will be presented to the civil systems community as well as to civil systems researchers and practitioners in various industries. Papers are being sought in the following areas:

• Civil systems research and practical applications
• Civil systems modeling methods
• Disaster management and resiliency
• Multi-scale modeling of natural and urban systems
• Multi-scale modeling of urban infrastructure
• Behavior modeling of large-scale urban systems
• System of systems modeling
• Simulation, optimization, and tradeoff analysis
• Systems validation and verification
• Spatio-temporal modeling of urban/natural systems
• Data, sensing, and analytics for urban systems modeling and management
• Information management and decision support
• Applications of knowledge representation and reasoning (AI)
• Applications of machine learning (ML)
• Design and management of smart cities
• Digital twins for urban and natural systems management
• Cyber-physical-human systems modeling

Dr. Mark Austin
Dr. Leonard Petnga
Dr. Parastoo Delgoshaei
Guest Editors

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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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. Systems is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.