Special Issue on Social and Intelligent Applications for Future Cities
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Motivation

In the last few years we have observed an increasing presence of intelligent applications in our daily lives: from accurate product recommendations, cyber-threat detection, to sophisticated software assistants. Many of these applications have certainly had an impact in our lifestyle, but they have mostly remained in the realm of the digital world. Despite the fact that we are increasingly digital citizens, cities and urban areas will always be our main ecosystem and, therefore, the main aspect affecting our daily lives.

The next barrier for intelligent applications is pervading urban areas to optimize resources, foster sustainable practices, fighting inequalities, creating new opportunities, and, generally, improving the welfare of their inhabitants. While the goals seem attractive, they do not come without their challenges: harnessing the predictive power behind humungous volumes of data generated by citizens and deployed sensors, managing and distributing scarce and limited resources, providing scalable intelligent solutions that support millions of users, fostering cooperation and coordination between thousands of self-interested agents, using human relationships and interactions to the cities’ own advantage, and effectively interacting with a wide range of citizens.

This special issue aims to advance the state of the art in the application of intelligent methods to improve cities and urban areas, with a special focus on those applications that take into consideration human collaboration, interactions, communication, or social behavior. We specially encourage the submission of articles describing applications, but we also welcome theoretical work and review articles on novel applications of intelligent methods to cities.

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Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Multi-Agent Systems
- Big Data
- Machine learning
- Sensors and actuators
- Smart homes and smart buildings
- Smart health
- Smart mobility and transportation
- Crowdsourcing
- Semantic Web, Linked Data Open Data, Linked Open Data
- Social Networks, Virtual Communities Social simulation
- Internet of Things
- Smart cities

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Submission Instructions

Original, high-quality contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. Papers will be peer-reviewed by independent reviewers and selected based on originality, scientific quality and relevance to this Special Issue. The journal editors will make final decisions about the acceptance of the papers.

Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the Future Generation Computer Systems at http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/ . Authors should select “VSI: FutureCities” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Inquiries, including questions about appropriate topics, may be sent electronically to vsanchez.anguix@gmail.com.

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Important dates

Paper submission due: Jan 30, 2019
First-round acceptance notification: Mar 30, 2019
Revision submission: May 30, 2019
Notification of final decision: Jul 30, 2019
Submission of final paper: Sep 1, 2019
Publication date: Last quarter of 2019

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Guest Editors

Dr. Victor Sanchez-Anguix
Florida Universitaria
Spain
vsanchez.anguix@gmail.com, vsanchez@florida-uni.es

Prof. Vicente Julian
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Spain
vinglada@dsic.upv.es

Prof. Paulo Novais
Universidade do Minho
Portugal
pjon@di.uminho.pt

Prof. Olivier Boissier
Mines Saint-Étienne
France
olivier.boissier@emse.fr

Prof. Kuo-Ming Chao
Coventry University
United Kingdom
csx240@coventry.ac.uk