Advanced Geospatial Applications for Smart Cities and Knowledge Discovery from Urban Data
A special issue of Smart Cities (ISSN 2624-6511). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Science and Humanities for Smart Cities".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 7643
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart city; spatial data mining; machine learning; cartographic modeling; social geoparticipation; GIS; serious games
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The concept of a Smart City plays an essential role in various aspects of socioeconomic life. It has become an “effective integration of physical, digital and human systems in the built environment to deliver a sustainable, prosperous and inclusive future for its citizens” (BSI, 2014). Rapid urbanization and advanced sensing techniques provide a unique opportunity for the urban population to transform the traditional ways of decision-making by adopting geospatial IoT infrastructure, cloud computing, machine learning-based analytics, and cloud storage. In a smart city, public issues are solved using information and communication technologies (ICT) with the engagement of various stakeholders who act in partnership with the city authorities (Manville et al., 2014).
The purpose of this Special Issue is an in-depth discussion on the process of transforming “raw” urban data into valuable knowledge that supports progress in shaping smart cities and improves living standards. The monograph aims to present state-of-the-art development and use of advanced geospatial methods for smart city applications and spatial knowledge extractions based on urban data collected from various sources. The Special Edition will publish both innovative concepts of geoinformation applications and recent developments in geospatial knowledge extraction obtained from different Smart City data sources, including urban sensor networks and social sensing (VGI).
The editors call for papers focused on the methods and applications of knowledge discovery from data (KDD) for Smart Cities in such sectors as transportation, health, energy, and social interaction. We welcome submissions that embrace smart city ideas and contribute to improving citizens’ well-being through geospatial data-driven solutions. We are particularly interested in papers focused on developing and using Big Data analytics, spatial data mining, fuzzy inference systems, Artificial Intelligence methods, deep learning, MAS, and other knowledge acquisition methods.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Spatial and spatiotemporal data analysis;
- Spatial data mining methods and algorithms;
- Spatial data infrustructure for Smart City services;
- Visual analytics solutions for Smart Cities;
- Statistical data analysis and characterization;
- Large-scale data management and analysis applied to Smart Cities;
- IoT data analytics for Smart Cities.
Dr. Robert Olszewski
Dr. Ekaterina Chuprikova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Smart City
- geospatial application
- spatial data mining
- machine learning
- spatial knowledge acquisition
- social geoparticipation
- IoT
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