parra-pulido, roger alejandro hernández-peña, yolanda teresa zafra-mejía, carlos alfonso
Accelerated urbanization challenges cities globally. Ensuring good quality of life and environmental protection requires innovative, data-driven solutions. Sustainable and smart cities (SSCs) offer a promising response, but effective implementation depends on selecting and using appropriate dimensions and indicators. The main objective of this arti...
nguyen, david n. usuda, yuichiro imamura, fumihiko
Global communities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural hazards and climate change, and the rapid pace of urbanization exacerbates these risks. According to the World Bank, approximately 50% of the world’s population lives in areas exposed to natural hazards, making the need to overcome the challenges to sustainable urban development pre...
lavrinovica, ingrida judvaitis, janis laksis, dans skromule, marija ozols, kaspars
In an era where buildings are increasingly becoming multifaceted entities, the paradigm of smart buildings has witnessed significant evolution. This advancement integrates sophisticated communication technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and data analytics. Intending to design an effective smart building monitori...
kolotouchkina, olga gonzález, laura ripoll belabas, warda
While cities on a global scale embrace smartness as a roadmap for efficient urban governance, disparities persist in the domain of digital accessibility, literacy, and skills, with manifestations of digital exclusion, ageism, and ableism prevalent in most digital urban experiences. Despite their commitment to bridging the digital divide, government...
nechesov, andrey goncharov, sergey
In this work, a functional variant of the polynomial analogue of Gandy’s fixed point theorem is obtained. Sufficient conditions have been found to ensure that the complexity of recursive functions does not exceed polynomial bounds. This opens up opportunities to enhance the expressivity of p-complete languages by incorporating recursively defined c...
veloso, águeda fonseca, fernando ramos, rui
Urbanization growth poses various challenges, such as congestion, pollution, and resource consumption, prompting city planners and governments to adopt smart systems to manage these issues more efficiently. Despite widespread adoption, there is no consensus on the defining attributes of smart cities, particularly regarding their role in urban susta...
mutambik, ibrahim
Today, urban areas across the world are increasingly vulnerable to emergencies due to expanding populations and the impact of climate change. This paper presents a data-driven method for assessing the susceptibility of urban regions to emergencies, using publicly available data and a clustering-based algorithm. The study incorporates both spatial a...
cavada, marianna kwon, nuri cooper, rachel
The smart city concept has garnered a lot of interest; however, it often falls short when it comes to providing clarity on the benefits it can offer. Discussing smartness in the context of cities and their inhabitants requires the involvement of a wide range of stakeholders in decision-making. Similarly, the decision-making process is often unclear...
almeida, fernando guimarães, cristina machado amorim, vasco
This study adopts an integrative review approach to explore the differences and similarities between smart cities and sustainable cities. The research starts by performing two systematic literature reviews about both paradigms and, after that, employs a thematic analysis to identify key themes, definitions, and characteristics that differentiate an...
mírez tarrillo, jorge luis hernandez, jesús c.
This article reports the proposal for the use of towers solar (solar chimneys) in urban environments in order to take advantage of landfills, unpopulated or wild hills within or near cities, clearing landfills, artificial hills; considering that the solar tower can maintain the mechanical power of its wind turbine constant. To this end, a mathemati...