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City Networks

Collaboration and Planning for Health and Sustainability

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  • © 2017

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  • Broadens understanding of models, networks, and methodologies utilized for urban planning
  • Collates sustainable city networks and smart cities through diverse positions
  • Features resilient models for future cities based on real world data from countries across the world

Part of the book series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications (SOIA, volume 128)

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Sustainable development within urban and rural areas, transportation systems, logistics, supply chain management, urban health, social services, and architectural design are taken into consideration in the cohesive network models provided in this book. The ideas, methods, and models presented consider city landscapes and quality of life conditions based on mathematical network models and optimization. Interdisciplinary Works from prominent researchers in mathematical modeling, optimization, architecture, engineering, and physics are featured in this volume to promote health and well-being through design.Ā Ā 

Specific topics include:

-Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  Current technology that form the basis of future living in smart cities

-Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  Interdisciplinary design and networking of large-scale urban systemsĀ 

-Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  Network communication and route traffic optimization

-Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  Carbon dioxide emission reduction

-Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  Closed-loop logistics chainmanagement and operation

-Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  Modeling the effect urban environments on aging

-Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  Health care infrastructure

-Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  Urban water system management

-Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  Architectural design optimization

Graduate students and researchers actively involved in architecture, engineering, building physics, logistics, supply chain management, and mathematical optimization will find the interdisciplinary work presented both informative and inspiring for further research.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Business Administration, Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia, Serres, Greece

    Athanasia Karakitsiou

  • Industrial Logistics, Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, LuleĆ„ University of Technology, LuleĆ„, Sweden

    Athanasios Migdalas

  • INSEAD, France

    Stamatina Th. Rassia

  • Deparment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

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