Academic Articles & Research Papers

Advancing the service-oriented transition of smart cities: Evaluating the intelligent approval quality.

Green corridors as climate-resilient infrastructure in smart cities: a systematic review using PRISMA guidelines

Urbanization has accelerated climate change-related risks in cities, such as urban heat islands, flooding, loss of biodiversity, and loss of ecosystem services. Green corridors have been identified as effective multifunctional approaches fo...

Digital Co-Creation in Socially Sustainable Smart City Projects: Lessons From the European Union and Canada

Utilizing readily accessible information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as mobile devices, applications, and simple Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, and harnessing their potential through Experimentation as a Service (EaaS), c...

Securing Electric Vehicle Performance: Machine Learning-Driven Fault Detection and Classification

Electric vehicles (EVs) are commonly recognized as environmentally friendly modes of transportation. They function by converting electrical energy into mechanical energy using different types of motors, which aligns with the sustainable pri...

On the Implementation of a Blockchain-Assisted Academic Council Electronic Vote System

The digitisation of administrative tasks and processes is a reality nowadays, translating into added value such as agility in process management, or simplified access to stored data. The digitisation of processes of decision-making in colle...

Assessment of the response of tropical dry forests to El Niño southern oscillation

Tropical Dry Forests (TDFs) in the Americas are significantly affected by drought related to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The analysis builds upon two drought indices: the MODIS-derived Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) and Temperatu...

Visual Context and Behavioral Priming in Pedestrian Crossing Decisions: Evidence from a Stated Preference Experiment in Ecuadorian Urban Areas

Pedestrian safety in developing countries faces critical challenges from rapid urbanization and infrastructure deficiencies. This study investigates how visual context influences pedestrian crossing preferences through a controlled stated p...

Exact and Evolutionary Algorithms for Synchronization of Public Transportation Timetables Considering Extended Transfer Zones

This article addresses timetable synchronization in public transportation, an important problem in modern smart cities, in order to guarantee a proper quality of service to citizens. Two variants of the bus timetabling synchronization probl...

Geospatial for Good: Empowering Citizens for Sustainable Urban and Rural Futures

Geospatial technologies are rapidly emerging as pivotal tools for advancing sustainable urban and rural development through citizen empowerment in India and worldwide. This study systematically reviews peer-reviewed and grey literature to e...

Measuring the Impact of Public Display Advertising in Smart Cities: An Advertising Effectiveness Test

The average age of the participants in this research, which evaluated the effects of public display advertising in smart cities, was found to be 31.2 years, with a gender distribution that is balanced. When compared to a prior review, expos...

Study of the Architecture of a Smart City

In recent years, we are experiencing a digital revolution in many contexts, the digitalization of industry (Industry 4.0), the digitalization of public administrations, the digitalization of people and things (Internet of Things) and, of co...

Innovative Approaches for Organizing an Inclusive Optics and Photonics Conference in Virtual Format

The COVID pandemic is forcing the renewal of scientific conferences, offering opportunities to introduce technological and inclusive developments. Our analysis focuses on the implementation of inclusive practices for female and early-career...

Will the Construction of Smart Cities Increase the Urban-Rural Income Gap? An Analysis Based on the Perspective of Economic Agglomeration

As smart city development deepens, its impact on the urban-rural income gap has become a key concern for both the government and society. This article uses panel data from Chinese prefecture-level cities between 2010 and 2022, treating the ...

The Problem of Integrating Digital Twins into Electro-Energetic Control Systems

The use of digital twins (DTs) in the electric power industry and other industries is a hot topic of research, especially concerning the potential of DTs to improve processes and management. This paper aims to present approaches to the crea...

Cybersecurity and Privacy Solutions in Smart Cities

The increasing proliferation and deployment of ICT in the infrastructure of cities has increased interest in smart cities. The long-term objective of a smart city is to enhance the quality of services provided to citizens and ultimately imp...

Cybersecurity as a Politikum

In the cybersecurity community it is common to think of security as a design feature for systems and infrastructures that may be difficult to balance with other requirements. What is less studied is how security requirements come about, for...

Toward a Sustainable Cybersecurity Ecosystem

Cybersecurity issues constitute a key concern of today’s technology-based economies. Cybersecurity has become a core need for providing a sustainable and safe society to online users in cyberspace. Considering the rapid increase of technolo...

Prospects of Cybersecurity in Smart Cities

The complex and interconnected infrastructure of smart cities offers several opportunities for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities and carry out cyberattacks that can have serious consequences for the functioning of cities’ critical infras...

Automated integration of real-time and non-real-time defense systems

Various application domains require the integration of distributed real-time or near-real-time systems with non-real-time systems. Smart cities, smart homes, ambient intelligent systems, or network-centric defense systems are among these ap...

An Explainable AI-Driven Zero-Day Attack Detection Framework for Securing Edge Devices in Smart Cities

The rapid proliferation of edge computing in smart cities has enhanced real-time data processing capabilities, but it has also exposed critical vulnerabilities to sophisticated cyber threats such as zero-day attacks. Traditional signature-b...