EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities

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Editor(s)-in-Chief: Henrique Santos and Sara Paiva

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EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities is open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on applications for Smart Cities with leverage on big-data applications, ICT devices used in the factory of the future, HPC, industrial processes, energy efficiency systems, social platforms, and more. The journal publishes research articles, review articles, commentaries, editorials, technical articles, and short communications with a quarterly frequency (four issues per year). Authors are not charged for article submission and processing.

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

Call for Papers: Special issue on: Smart Tourism: Tourism in Smart Cities (Manuscript submission deadline: 2022-03-31; Notification of acceptance: 2022-04-15; Submission of final revised paper: 2022-05-15; Publication of special issue (tentative): 2022-06-15)

Guest Editor: Tiago C. Pereira (IESF's Research, Development and Innovation Centre-CIDI, Portugal)

Call for Papers: Special issue on: Smart Technologies: Applied Technology in Smart Cities (Manuscript submission deadline: 2022-06-30; Notification of acceptance: 2022-07-21; Submission of final revised paper: 2022-08-30; Publication of special issue (tentative): 2022-10-21)

Guest Editor: Tiago C. Pereira (IESF's Research, Development and Innovation Centre-CIDI, Portugal) Guest Editor: Antonio Abreu Silva (Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal) Guest Editor: João Vidal de Carvalho (Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal)

Editors-in-Chief
Henrique Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
Sara Paiva, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Area Editors
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 (SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, India)

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Application of real-time GIS analytics to support spatial intelligent decision-making in the era of big data for smart cities
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sc 20(9): e3

Authors:
Mbongowo J. Mbuh, Peter Metzger, Peter Brandt, Kelli Fika, Monica Slinkey

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1102

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Publisher: EAI
ISSN: 2518-3893
Number of Volumes: 6

Last Published: 2023-01-04