Publications on Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Call for papers: Redefining cities and planning under the twin smart and green transition
1 June 2023

This special issue of LAND, an open access journal, centers around the ongoing transformation of cities and planning in response to the concurrent digital and green transition. The digital (or smart) transition is a major driver of the current transformation of cities and refers to the application of smart systems, [...]

Intelligent / Smart Cities Solutions

Connected intelligence for the smart green transition: call for papers
1 June 2023

URENIO Research organises a session at the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2023) that will take place at the AC Bella Sky Hotel and Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, 23-28 July 2023. HCII2023 will run as an ‘in-person’ conference with the option for remote participation. The title of [...]

Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Should be afraid of GPT? Are you afraid of Excel?
21 May 2023

What is inside a GPT model? I asked GPT-4 a few questions about its memory and algorithm. Here is the discussion. Q1: Can we describe the ChatGPT algorithm as deep learning, backpropagation, attention mechanism based algorithm? [...]

Publications on Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Spatial Planning in the Digital Age
30 April 2023

As part of the 19th International Book Fair of Thessaloniki (May 4-7, 2023), Kritiki Publications organises a discussion on the collective volume Spatial Planning in the Digital Age, edited by Nikolaos Gavanas, Athina Giannakou, Anastasia Panori, Alexandros Sdoukopoulosc, Sunday, May 7, 2023, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m., in the “Philological [...]

Innovation ecosystems Innovation Strategies

Transformation of Industry Ecosystems in Cities and Regions: A Generic Pathway for Smart and Green Transition
20 August 2022

Published in Sustainability, this research paper focuses on pathways towards the digital and green transition. We assess a generic pathway for the transformation of industry ecosystems in cities and regions based on processes of “prioritisation”, “ecosystem identification”, and “platform-based digital and green transition”. Our interest in the transformation of activity-based [...]

Intelligent / Smart Cities Solutions

Universality and Interoperability Across Smart City Ecosystems: Best paper DAPI-HCII 2022
2 July 2022

Contemporary smart cities involve a very high number of software applications and hardware devices that connect to the physical and social space of cities and form complex ecosystems in different knowledge and activity domains (transportation, logistics, healthcare, housing, industry, governance, social care, and many more). In this context, smart cities [...]

Intelligent / Smart Cities Solutions

Net-Zero Energy Districts: a model for transition
15 February 2022

This paper published in Land describes a model to assess the feasibility of transition of city districts to self-sufficient net-Zero-Energy Districts (NZEDs), based on locally produced renewable energy suitable for cities. It also aims to identify threshold conditions that allow for a city district to become a self-sufficient NZED using [...]

Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Three Decades of Research on Smart Cities
13 November 2021

A new paper “Three Decades of Research on Smart Cities‘ by Ayyoob Sharifi, Zaheer Allam, Bakhtiar Feizizadeh, and Hessam Ghamari, published in Sustainability 2021, 13, 7140, gives an overview of the structure and trends in the literature on smart cities. It is a bibliometric analysis and science mapping using VOSviewer [...]

Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities Platforms, Apps, Solutions

Understanding Resiliency: What It Means to be a Resilient City and Tools to Support
5 October 2021

The whitepaper “Understanding Resiliency: What It Means to be a Resilient City and Tools to Support’ provides an analysis on the necessity for resiliency strategies and the challenges of implementing resiliency. Additionally it presents existent digital tools to support cities and territories to build more resilient, sustainable and safe places [...]

Publications on Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Intelligence and Co-Creation in Smart Specialisation Strategies: Towards the Next Stage of RIS3
27 August 2021

The recently published white paper on “Intelligence and Co-creation in Smart Specialisation Strategies’ outlines some key conclusions from the Online S3 project. The project was funded under the Horizon 2020 programme. According to the authors, Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3), linking regional, national, and EU policy frameworks, [...]