[agents] Special Issue on Social and Intelligent Applications for Future Cities

[Víctor Sánchez]

Motivation

In the last few years we have observed an increasing presence of
intelligent applications in our daily lives: from accurate product
recommendations, cyber-threat detection, to sophisticated software
assistants. Many of these applications have certainly had an impact in our
lifestyle, but they have mostly remained in the realm of the digital world.
Despite the fact that we are increasingly digital citizens, cities and
urban areas will always be our main ecosystem and, therefore, the main
aspect affecting our daily lives.

The next barrier for intelligent applications is pervading urban areas to
optimize resources, foster sustainable practices, fighting inequalities,
creating new opportunities, and, generally, improving the welfare of their
inhabitants. While the goals seem attractive, they do not come without
their challenges: harnessing the predictive power behind humungous volumes
of data generated by citizens and deployed sensors, managing and
distributing scarce and limited resources, providing scalable intelligent
solutions that support millions of users, fostering cooperation and
coordination between thousands of self-interested agents, using human
relationships and interactions to the cities’ own advantage, and
effectively interacting with a wide range of citizens.

This special issue aims to advance the state of the art in the application
of intelligent methods to improve cities and urban areas, with a special
focus on those applications that take into consideration human
collaboration, interactions, communication, or social behavior. We
specially encourage the submission of articles describing applications, but
we also welcome theoretical work and review articles on novel applications
of intelligent methods to cities.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   - Multi-Agent Systems
   - Big Data
   - Machine learning
   - Sensors and actuators
   - Smart homes and smart buildings
   - Smart health
   - Smart mobility and transportation
   - Crowdsourcing
   - Semantic Web, Linked Data
   - Open Data, Linked Open Data
   - Social Networks, Virtual Communities
   - Social simulation
   - Internet of Things
   - Smart cities

Submission Instructions

Original, high-quality contributions that are not yet published or that are
not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences
are sought. Papers will be peer-reviewed by independent reviewers and
selected based on originality, scientific quality and relevance to this
Special Issue. The journal editors will make final decisions about the
acceptance of the papers.

Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors
available from the online submission page of the Future Generation Computer
Systems at http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/ . Authors should select “VSI:
FutureCities” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission
process. Inquiries, including questions about appropriate topics, may be
sent electronically to vsanchez.anguix at gmail.com.

Important dates

   - Paper submission due: Jan 30, 2019
   - First-round acceptance notification: Mar 30, 2019
   - Revision submission: May 30, 2019
   - Notification of final decision: Jul 30, 2019
   - Submission of final paper: Sep 1, 2019
   - Publication date: Last quarter of 2019

Guest Editors

Dr. Victor Sanchez-Anguix
Coventry University
United Kingdom
vsanchez.anguix at gmail.com, ac0872 at coventry.ac.uk

Prof. Vicente Julian
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Spain
vinglada at dsic.upv.es

Prof. Paulo Novais
Universidade do Minho
Portugal
pjon at di.uminho.pt

Prof. Olivier Boissier
Mines Saint-Étienne
France
olivier.boissier at emse.fr

Prof. Kuo-Ming Chao
Coventry University
United Kingdom
csx240 at coventry.ac.uk
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