Special issue on “Developments in Optimization for Smart Cities”

• Published date: 01 May 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/itor.12517
• Date: 01 May 2018

Intl. Trans. in Op. Res. 25 (2018) 1103–1104

DOI: 10.1111/itor.12517

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Special issue on “Developments in Optimization for Smart

Cities”

Guest Editors

Andr´

ea Cynthia Santosa, Christophe Duhamelband Sebasti´

an Urrutiac

aTechnological University of Troyes(UTT), Troyes, France

bClermont-Auvergne University(UCA), Aubi `

ere, France

cFederal Universityof Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Many medium to large cities in the World are facing difficulties in managing and improving their

urban areas. The impact on daily life becomes more and more noticeable as the concentration of

the population in urban areas rises. The urban population is already higher than the rural one and,

according to the United Nations,5 billion people (out of 8.3 billion) will live in urban areas by 2030.

In addition, the situation will become even more difficult since urban sprawl cannot be extended

indefinitely. In recent years, serious changes in the environment have been observed with significant

ecological, social and financial impact. For instance, increasing concentrations of pollutants (air,

soil, water) along with destruction of agricultural areas is leading to less space for production and

livestock. Moreover, as cities grow, they require increasing financial input to maintain their urban

infrastructures.

In this context, one of society’smajor challenges is to transform our cities, or even build new ones,

with an emphasis on pollution reduction, on equitable access to essential resources (such as water,

electricity,sewerage facilities, and communication)and on urban networks that are able to withstand

multiple daily travels.These aspects are strongly related to the concept of smart cities,which relies on

innovative ways to manage cities, including participatory governance with citizens, administrations

and industry. The goal is to propose services (such as mobility, shared economy, ecological urban

areas, and citizen’s inclusion) able to cope with social, economic and ecological issues.

This special issue of International Transactions on Operations Research (ITOR) is devoted to

combinatorial optimization problems in the context of smart cities, which contribute to improve

services like mobility, information and communications technology to facilitate integration and

democratization of the citizens’ space and to evolve the infrastructures and services to integrate

massive data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, smart cities management, smart

mobility, smart energy systems, crisis management in smart cities, internet of things, smart home,

smart care, and smart agriculture, among others.

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