EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities

Smart Cities are transforming our urban life with digital technologies, offering new citizen-centric public services, optimizing the usage of resources and reducing the impact of service provisioning on the environment. Cities are too big to ignore, they are at the core of our work and leisure lives, hosting the majority of World's population, and the majority of its innovation infrastructure and assets.

Regarding key fundamental dynamics and mobility issues, many cities continue to grow in world-wide while demographic aging will also create pressure of the costs of running staff-intensive mobility infrastructure. It is necessary to improved performance in basic city management areas starting from smart and sustainable mobility, traffic and road networks, to transport systems, but also considering street cleaning to water management, to sustainable energy and affordable low carbon environments.

Generally, a smart city combines legacy networks and new communication architectures in order to achieve compatibility and interoperability among public administrations, operators, companies and population. Then, it goes beyond the use of ICT to provide new advanced services in diverse business and technological domains, such as urban transports, water supply, disposal facilities, lightning, heat buildings and so on. To this aim, the integration of information and communication systems, sensors and data analytics over different systems and infrastructures of a city is necessary.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Applications for Smart Cities able to leverage Big-Data Applications, ICT devices used in Factory of the Future, HPC, Industrial Processes, Energy Efficiency Systems, Social Platforms, etc.
• Building Trust-based communication and computing systems for IoT and Clouds applications being Secure for Citizens
• eHealth applications for Citizens.
• Connecting in City Buildings for optimizing resources and utilities.
• Software engineering methodology for the design of Smart Cities Systems
• Energy Efficient and Green Software-defined Infrastructures aimed at Smart Cities facilities.
• Re-allocation of resources and services (independently of their location) across distributed computing and geographically separated data storage and processing infrastructures. Inter-Cities along with Federation Services: availability, Disaster recovery, etc.
• Federation of Services (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) aimed at Public Administrations
• Service discovery in Smart Cities - device Discovery and Data Discovery.
• Easy and Large Deployment and autonomic management of densely interconnected and decentralised Cloud, Networks and IoTs infrastructures aimed at Smart Cities.
• Control Architectures/Network Programmability in Smart Cities aimed at mobility, traffic and road networks, transport systems, energy, economy, and so on.
• ICT applications enabling Energy-aware, smart and sustainable mobility solutions for Smart Cities.
• Verification/Debugging/ Auditing Tools for all Applications in Smart Cities Domains
• Energy-aware and sustainable computing solutions for Smart Cities applications

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Guest editor: Mr Aqeel Khalique (Department of CSE, Jamia Hamdard, India)

Guest editor: Dr. Imran Hussain (Department of CSE, Jamia Hamdard, India)

Guest editor: Dr. Anand Nayyar (Duy Tan University, Viet Nam)

Guest editor: Dr Ajay B Gadicha (G H Raisoni Academy of Engineering &Technology Nagpur, India)

Guest editor: Dr. Girija Narasimhan (Higher College of Technology-Muscat, Oman)

Guest editor: Fabien FERRERO (Université Côte d’Azur, France)

Guest editor: Nhan LE THANH (Danang University, Vietnam)

Guest editor: Van Ga BUI (University of Dasang, Vietnam)

• Andrea Prati (University of Parma)
• Antonio Celesti (Universitá degli Studi di Messina)
• Antonio Jara (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland)
• Bin Guo (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
• Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa)
• Dhananjay Singh (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea)
• Luca Foschini (University of Bologna)
• Marco Zappatore (University of Salento)
• Maria Fazio (Universitá degli Studi di Messina)
• Philipp Leitner (University of Zurich)
• Rajiv Ranjan (Newcastle University)
• Yanmin Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
• Mohd Abdul Ahad (Jamia Hamdard, India)
• Sérgio Adriano Fernandes Lopes (University of Minho Portugal)
• Gautami Tripathi (School of Engineering Sciences and technology, Jamia Hamdard, India)
• Anand Nayyar (Duy Tan University, Viet Nam)
• Yuanqing Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) 
• Nishu Gupta (Vaagdevi College of Engineering, India) 

Henrique Santos¹

Henrique M. Dinis Santos received his first degree in Electric and Electronic Engineering, from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 1984. In 1996 he received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering, from the University of the Minho, Portugal and the habilitation degree in 2013, by the same institution. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Information Systems Department, University of Minho, being responsible for several graduate and postgraduate courses. The research work has been framed within ALGORITMI Research Centre, at the same university, where he is responsible by the supervision of several postgraduate students and the coordination of several R&D projects, mainly in the Information Security area – emphasis on Intrusion Detection, biometrical technologies and Information Security Management – and Computer Architecture area – emphasis on Computer Vision and Cloud Computing. He authored and co-authored several scientific publications in journals, conferences and books within his field of interests and co-authored a patent with an industrial partner, in 2012, in the biometric area. He is also the President of a national Technical Committee (CT 136) for information system security standardization, Vice President for Conferences and Workshops of IEEE Education Society, President of the Portuguese Association for Data Protection (APPD) and integrates frequently advice and scientific committees supporting civil, governmental and military organizations, concerning Information Security subjects. During the second semester of 1990, under an ERASMUS program, he was teaching at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, where he was recognized as University Academic staff.

Sara Paiva²

Sara Paiva is an Associate Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, a PhD in Informatics Engineering from University of Vigo in 2011 and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oviedo since January 2018, under advanced driving assistants and urban mobility. She is the coordinator of a recently created research centre in the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo. Her main line of research is mobility solutions with a focus on accessibility and social inclusion and has oriented several final projects of Bachelor and Master in her main line of work. She is frequent book editor of Springer and IGI books, has authored and co-authored several scientific publications in journals and conferences, is a frequent reviewer of international journals and international conferences.