Recent Trends in the Application of Urban Intelligence to Sustainable Smart Cities
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2025 | Viewed by 165
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Interests: artificial intelligence; computer vision; remote sensing; robotics; health
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Interests: pattern recognition; smart grid; sensor networks
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cities around the world are undergoing significant transformations as they move towards becoming smart communities. The primary goal of the smart city concept is to optimize community operations, ensuring the efficient and sustainable use of resources to enhance services, improve the quality of life, and boost resilience in the face of challenges such as natural disasters. This optimization can be applied across various domains, including transportation, communication, water management, healthcare, public safety, and energy systems, both individually and collectively. By accomplishing these, smart city participants become empowered to make informed decisions that seamlessly integrate people, information, and smart technologies, unlocking new opportunities for innovation and service delivery in social, physical, and technical systems. Recent developments in artificial intelligence methods and new hardware systems form the backbone of smart city development, with current applications already evident in healthcare, transportation, emergency management, renewable energy, smart grids, etc.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish innovative research and review articles that explore developments, challenges, and opportunities related to the application of artificial intelligence to smart and connected communities in the process of ensuring sustainable urban life. These methods include, but are not limited to, artificial intelligence, information technologies, big data analytics, and data-driven hardware design.
Potential topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel algorithms for exploiting, processing, and understanding big data of diverse and complex natures;
- Innovations in machine learning and data analytics for human-in-the-loop decision making considering system uncertainties;
- Big data management for smart and sustainable communities;
- Security and privacy for smart and sustainable communities;
- Adaptation and correction of the lifestyles of smart city inhabitants in response to objectives considered for optimizing the operation of sustainable smart cities;
- New energy management strategies and practices for efficient use of distributed energy sources;
- Intelligent and sustainable transportation systems;
- Smart buildings and connected homes;
- Smart charging stations for vehicles and smart grids.
Dr. Xiaohui Yuan
Dr. Wei Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- sustainability
- urban intelligence
- energy
- health
- transportation
- security
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