The term Smart City is typically applied to urban and metropolitan areas where Information and Communication Technologies provide ways to enable social, cultural and urban development, improving social and political capacities and/or efficiency. In this paper we will show the potential of Artificial Intelligence techniques for augmenting ICT solutions to both increase the cities competiveness b...

Fast and unplanned city growth, has effects such as isolation of village societies, threatening urbancores and centers and small and weak societies, destruction of open spaces and open and natural regions. Smart growthoffers a sustainable way for urban developing with appropriate use of available sources, increase of urban services,developing neighborhoods with different uses, making public tra...

• To become familiar with the security and privacy issues of location information in smart cities • To become familiar with the concept of location proof for trajectories in context of smart cities • Tobecome familiarwith the conventional approaches for generating location proofs and their shortcomings • To become familiar with the idea of environmental element-based location proof • To become ...

In this work we show how a simple model based on chemical signaling can reduce the exploration times in urban environments. The problem is relevant for smart city navigation where electric vehicles try to find recharging stations with unknown locations. To this end we have adapted the classical ant foraging swarm algorithm to urban morphologies. A perturbed Markov chain model is shown to qualit...

In the progressive development of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and transformation transport towards electromobility decarbonization cities, many different problems are being faced related to energy management in smart cities [...]

It Is a global challenge to reduce environmental impact and the carbon footprint. At same time, societal development needs be addressed for resilience. Modern cities are facing of combining competitiveness on city scale sustainable urban become smart cities.

Sharing information is a key enabler in the transition of a city becoming smart. Information, generated by the ICT backbone of a city, and maintained by distinct public and private entities, comes with processing challenges that must be addressed in order to increase citizens’ quality of life and make their cities sustainable. In CRISALIS and SysSec, we investigate such challenges from a securi...

In this chapter, we investigate the concept of Smart Sustainable Cities. We begin with five major developments of the last decades and show how they can be said to build a basis for the Smart Sustainable Cities concept. We argue that for the concept to have any useful meaning, it needs to be more strictly defined than it has previously been. We suggest such a definition and bring up some of the...

Cities have an ever increasing wealth of sensing capabilities, recently including also Internet of Things (IoT) systems. However, to fully exploit such sensing capabilities with the aim of offering effective citysensing-driven applications still presents certain obstacles. Indeed, at present, the main limitation in this respect consists of the vast majority of data sources being served on a “be...

Intellectualization is the basis for managing Smart Cities. This involves infrastructure development and design of vehicles equipped with intelligent modules, which provide the control ability. Along with it, the transition to “green”, safe and sustainable modes of transport, such as bicycle, should be realized. The widespread use of environmentally friendly bicycles is constrained by a number ...