The Advances of Smart Services for the Creation of Adaptive Smart Areas in Sustainable Smart Cities

Dear Colleagues,

Thanks to technological advances, recent years have seen cities undergo a profound transformation, with significant improvements in sustainability and in the services offered by local governments and other municipal entities. This transformation has resulted in a high investment in resources and research projects focused on the urban environment. However, most of the so-called smart cities are simply cities that have undertaken several smart projects. Given that, nowadays, vast amounts of data are continually generated, and the challenge of a city that strives to become smart lies in identifying intelligent and adaptive means of combining the generated information, so that valuable knowledge may be extracted. Sensorization has been integral to the collection of data. The knowledge extracted from the data analyzed by IoT and smart city platforms optimizes the governments’ decision making and resource consumption. This Special Issue invites researchers to submit high-quality original studies addressing the topic of Adaptive Smart Areas in Sustainable Smart Cities through the application of edge computing systems, hybrid computing service systems, federated learning, or artificial learning in multi-agent system architectures.

The Special Issue mainly receives papers from SSCt2023 (International Conference on Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories), 21–23 June 2023, Manizales, Colombia. Event link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/events/15511.

Prof. Dr. Juan M. Corchado
Prof. Dr. Luis Fernando Castillo Ossa 
Prof. Dr. Gustavo Adolfo Isaza Echeverri 
Prof. Dr. Omar Danilo Castrillón
Prof. Dr. Marcelo López Trujillo
Dr. Oscar Cardona-Morales
Dr. Fernando De la Prieta 
Guest Editors

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