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Information Innovation Technology in Smart Cities

  • Presents new findings and cases of smart-city development from 27 countries
  • Includes theoretical, experimental, and pioneering research on various topics
  • Promotes technologies to provide better living conditions in the cities of tomorrow
  • Explores smart applications of key domains such as energy, environment, transportation, and healthcare to ensure long-term, high-quality sustainable development
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Software Design and Development of ICT-Based Smart Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Unified Interface for People with Disabilities (UI-PWD) at Smart City (Design and Implementation)

      • Ghassan Kbar, Syed Hammad Mian, Mustufa Haider Abidi
      Pages 3-20
    3. A Software Model Supporting Smart Learning

      • Shamsa Abdulla Al Mazrouei, Nafla Saeed Al Derei, Boumediene Belkhouche
      Pages 21-32
    4. Representing Spatial Relationships Within Smart Cities Using Ontologies

      • Tristan W. Reed, David A. McMeekin, Femke Reitsma
      Pages 33-45
    5. An Improved Hammerstein Model for System Identification

      • Selcuk Mete, Hasan Zorlu, Saban Ozer
      Pages 47-61
  3. New Generation of Big Data Processing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
    2. Information Management in Collaborative Smart Environments

      • Shravan Sridhar Chitlur, Achim P. Karduck
      Pages 93-104
    3. Business Behavior Predictions Using Location Based Social Networks in Smart Cities

      • Ola AlSonosy, Sherine Rady, Nagwa Badr, Mohammed Hashem
      Pages 105-122
  4. Accelerating the Evolution of Smart Cities with the Internet of Things and Internet of People

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. Emotion Identification in Twitter Messages for Smart City Applications

      • Dario Stojanovski, Gjorgji Strezoski, Gjorgji Madjarov, Ivica Dimitrovski
      Pages 139-150
    3. MedWeight Smart Community: A Social Approach

      • Giannis Meletakis, Rania Hatzi, Panagiotis Katsivelis, Mara Nikolaidou, Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, Costas A. Anastasiou et al.
      Pages 151-162
    4. Semi-distributed Demand Response Solutions for Smart Homes

      • Rim Kaddah, Daniel Kofman, Fabien Mathieu, Michal Pióro
      Pages 163-179
  5. Internet-of-Things, Big Data, Cloud—Security, Privacy and Reliability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
    2. Securing Smart Cities—A Big Data Challenge

      • Florian Gottwalt, Achim P. Karduck
      Pages 183-197
  6. Advanced, Intelligent Communication Infrastructure for Smart Cities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

About this book

This book describes Smart Cities and the information technologies that will provide better living conditions in the cities of tomorrow. It brings together research findings from 27 countries across the globe, from academia, industry and government. It addresses a number of crucial topics in state of the arts of technologies and solutions related to smart cities, including big data and cloud computing, collaborative platforms, communication infrastructures, smart health, sustainable development and energy management.


Information Innovation Technology in Smart Cities is essential reading for researchers working on intelligence and information communication systems, big data, Internet of Things, Cyber Security, and cyber-physical energy systems. It will be also invaluable resource for advanced students exploring these areas.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

    Leila Ismail

  • College of Physics and Electronic Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China

    Liren Zhang

About the editors

Dr. Ismail is an Associate Professor at the College of Information Technology (CIT) of the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), UAE, joined in 2005, and is the founder and director of the High Performance, Grid & Cloud Computing Research Laboratory at CIT, and the UAEU supercomputer, with state-of-the-art architecture and technology.  Dr. Ismail completed higher studies (DEA) in distributed systems at the Joseph Fourrier University (Grenoble I)/ENSIMAG Engineering School in France, and earned Ph.D. in distributed systems from Computer Engineering/Distributed Systems from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, in September 2000 with very honorable degree.


Dr. Ismail has a vast industrial and academic experience; at Sun Microsystems R&D Center, worked on the design and implementation of highly-available distributed systems; and participated in the deposit of a US patent in the domain. She served in teaching at Grenoble I, France, Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut, and has been serving as an Adjunct Professor at the Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute Curtin University, Australia.  Dr. Ismail current research interests include performance analysis in distributed systems, energy efficiency and management, green computing, resource management and scheduling problems in distributed systems with emphasis in clouds, middleware, High Performance Computing, and software security in distributed systems.  She won the IBM Shared University Research Award and the IBM Faculty Award, very competitive world-wide, won funding for major projects as a PI/Co-PI and the funded project by UAE/NRF was top ranked by external reviewers following a competition.



Dr. Ismail has international collaborations and publishing her research results in prestigious journals and international conferences. She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, and Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, served as chair, co-chair and track chair for many IEEE international conferences, including being a General Chair for IEEE DEST 2009 and a General Chair, Technical Program Chair and Organizing Committee Chair for the 11th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology 2015 (IIT’15) for which Dr. Ismail got the IEEE Computer Society (HQs) Technical Sponsorship.

Dr. Liren Zhang joined the United Arab Emirates University as a full Professor of Network Engineering in 2009. He received his M.Eng. from the University of South Australia in 1988 and his Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1993, both in electronics and computer systems engineering. He has since served as a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Australia, Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and full Professor at the University of South Australia, where he is currently an Adjunct Professor.

Dr. Zhang has vast experience as an engineer, academia and researcher in the field of network modeling and performance analysis, teletraffic engineering, optical communications and networks, queuing theory and applications, coding theory and applications, switching and routing algorithms, wireless/mobile networks, electro-optical sensor networks, information assurance and network security. He has published more than 150 research papers in international journals. Dr. Zhang is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an editor of the Journal of Computer Communications and Journal of Networks and Computer Applications.

Currently, Prof. Zhang's research interests include ultra-wideband (UWB) sensor networks for real-time target tracking and communications; biomedical imaging using ultra-wideband penetration; extraction of biometric signatures for forensic identification and multi-layer security architectures in next-generation wireless communication networks. 

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