Dear Colleagues,

A smart environment is an advanced environment with dynamic devices, acting together to form an “intelligent entity”. In such environments, the computing power is embedded in the space, then it is very important to investigate the user’s perspective and their interactions with the surrounding world. Several artifacts and components compose a smart environment, but basically, the elements are services, applications, devices, users, a middleware software (or gateway), and the environment itself. The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, for example, is particularly suitable to enable smart environments.

In this context, cloud, fog, and edge computing are valid solutions to support data analytic applications, real-time and high-performance computing, and big data storage.

Thanks to features such as elastic resource allocation and high computing power, in cloud computing, low latency, better data control and flexible storage system, in fog computing, and no delay data processing, real-time data analysis and low network traffic, in edge computing, these technologies enable effectively addressing most smart environment issues.

From this perspective, this Special Issue aims to contribute to the field, presenting the most relevant advances in this research area.

Dr. Agostino Forestiero
Dr. Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro
Dr. Chendan Li
Dr. Giuseppe Papuzzo
Guest Editors

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• Cloud, fog, and edge technologies to support smart cities/home/grid/building/transportation/manufacturing
• Application, deployment and testbed in smart systems
• Smart algorithms for cloud/fog/edge resource management
• Big data analytics and data mining for urban Informatics
• Cyber physical management leveraging cloud/fog/edge technologies
• e-Health applications and services
• Fault tolerance, reliability, and survivability in smart systems
• Green computing, networking, and energy efficiency
• Social computing and networks
• Safety, security, and privacy for smart environments
• Collaboration and Negotiation in cloud/fog/edge technologies
• Multiagent systems and swarm intelligence for smart applications
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Collective intelligence for cloud/fog/edge computing
• Interoperability, standardization, and integration for smart environment applications