Dear Colleagues,

Smart cities are starting to address challenges such as adjusting city services to citizens effectively to improve their quality of life in the city and to optimize resources in order to reduce the impact on the environment that comes from the high density of population.

Sensorization has played a fundamental role in understanding the beat/pulse of cities. Nevertheless, gathering information is only the first step toward understanding. Interoperability and the use of standards are also cornerstones that make it possible to extend knowledge by promoting exchange of information between different systems. Furthermore, data exploitation has gained a lot of attention in both industry and academia because of the possibilities and results that data can provide. In this sense, artificially intelligent techniques based on machine learning, deep learning, etc. have proven their usefulness, being capable of analyzing sensor information to provide KPIs or even estimations of what the status of the city would be —its services, but also activities and moods of the people in it.

This Special Issue aims to present recent work on intelligent systems for cities. We are inviting reviews, regular research papers (articles), and communications in all areas of research concerning, but not limited to, the following topics, when applied to the context of cities, citizens, and densely populated and highly interconnected areas:

• Artificial Intelligence and models for understanding the city;
• E-health for citizens;
• Crowd management;
• Security and privacy of city services;
• Edge/fog architectures for cities;
• Experimentation and deployments;
• Cyberphysical systems: public utilities, buildings;
• Transport and mobility: vehicular networks, traffic congestion, reduced pollution;
• Digital twins for the smart city.

Dr. Juan Antonio Martinez Navarro
Dr. Martin Bauer
Dr. Giuseppe Tropea
Guest Editors

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