Urban profiling is a procedure for modelling specific aspects of a city with multi-source heterogeneous data fusion technology. Urban profiling helps researchers to better complete downstream tasks, such as traffic flow prediction, human mobility pattern extraction, e-commerce warehouse inventory, and urban functional region division. The development and upgrade of communication and sensor technology has led to a huge amount of multi-source, heterogeneous, user-generated data in the form of vehicle trajectories, social platform engagements, and Geographic Information System data amongst others. With this huge influx of complex data, new handling and processing techniques have been at the forefront of research. In recent years, AI technologies and Big Data analyses, particularly deep learning, have all been applied to the field of computing in the context of urban profiling. These new approaches have revitalised the handling of complex datasets, and lead to new possibilities for complex applications, intelligent services, and refined governance.

Despite the technological advances, technical problems with the fusion of multi-source heterogeneous data are also present, such as representation learning on spatio-temporal data. All of these feed into the approaches for the interpretability of urban profiling data.

This Special Issue aims to present the state-of-the-art research in the area of urban profiling and its applications, and to provide a forum for experts to disseminate their recent advanced works, views, and ideas on future directions in this field.

Including, but not limited to, research on:

System Architecture And Algorithms For Urban Profiling
The Interpretability Of Urban Profiling Data
The Application Of Urban Profiling Data
Private Data Generation
Incomplete Urban Profiling Data Repair
Human Mobility Prediction / Leveraging Big Data / AI
Transportation Optimization Using Urban Profiling Data
Traffic Control And Management Based On Urban Profiling Data
The Big-Data-Driven Recommendation In Urban Profiling
The Application Of AI Technology In Urban Profiling
The Application Of Big Data Analyses In Urban Profiling
Community Activity Prediction Based On Urban Profiling Data
Urban Profiling Enhanced Through The Internet Of Things
Network Science For Urban Profiling
Urban Profiling Applied To Refine Governance
Applications Of Urban Profiling In Energy Supply
Applications Of Urban Profiling In Economic Decisions The Role Of Urban Profiling In Environmental Governance