Dear Colleagues,

Artificial Intelligence and Sensor Informatics (AI&SI) are developing quickly and will become an essential part of smart cities and the construction industries and business. Current studies predict that the number of digital devices will increase from 25 billion in 2017 to 100 billion in 2025. However, the implications of AI&SI have not been fully examined in the context of smart cities, infrastructure, and construction (SCIC). SCIC needs to be managed, monitored, and maintained over time, so there is a need to develop the data infrastrucure to collect data, learn from the data, and identify patterns. In megacities, a wide range of technologies are being used, including water sensitivity monitoring sensors, surveillance cameras, smart traffic control systems, construction monitoring systems, and building sensors for post-occupancy management. Current studies predict that metropolitan populations will increase by 60% by 2050, and over 30 megacities will be developed in different countries, including Latin America, Russia, China, and India. This will provide an opportunity to utilise AI&SI widely to increase the productivity, liveability, and sustainability of cities, including infrastructure and construction projects.

AI&SI includes a wide range of technologies and methods that can be employed to understand the data, explore patterns, and predict events, properties, and features of any phenomenon and system at different scales such as a city, urban transportation, construction or project. This Special Issue welcomes submissions from diverse disciplines including research projects with different approaches, including quantitative, computational, visual analytics, data mining, analysis of spatial and morphological structure of cities, urban transportation and construction systems and activities. We encourage authors to develop or clarify the implications of the following topics and technologies in smart cities, infrastructure, and construction.

Topics:

• Computer vision and image processing;
• Knowledge representation and management;
• Expert systems and knowledge-based systems;
• Vision sensor system and Artificial Intelligence;
• Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GAI);
• Data infrastructure;
• Internet informatics and cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) applications;
• Deep learning and machine learning;
• Robotics and information systems;
• Digital infrastructure;
• Spatial metadata;
• Big Data analytics for data processing;
• Intelligent real-time algorithms;
• AI in security, privacy, and trust in smart systems;
• Human–computer interaction;
• Global sensor deployment case studies;
• Applications and implications of all above topics in smart cities, infrastructure and construction, and case studies.

Dr. Sara Shirowzhan
Prof. Dr. Arcot Sowmya
Dr. Samad Sepasgozar
Guest Editors

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