This book provides a valuable combination of relevant research works on developing smart city ecosystem from the artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of things (IoT) perspective. The technical research works presented here are focused on a number of aspects of smart cities: smart mobility, smart living, smart environment, smart citizens, smart government, and smart waste management systems as well as related technologies and concepts. This edited book offers critical insight to the key underlying research themes within smart cities, highlighting the limitations of current developments and potential future directions.

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Dr. Vincenzo Piuri is Professor at the University of Milan, Italy (since 2000). He was Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Visiting Researcher at George Mason University, USA. He has founded a start-up company in the area of intelligent systems for industrial applications and is active in industrial research projects. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His main research and industrial application interests are artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, computational intelligence, pattern analysis and recognition, machine learning, signal and image processing, biometrics, intelligent measurement systems, industrial applications, distributed processing systems, Internet of things, cloud computing, fault tolerance, application-specific digital processing architectures, and arithmetic architectures. He published over 400 papers in international journals, international conference proceedings, and books. He is Fellow of the IEEE and Distinguished Scientist of ACM. He has been IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities (2015), Member of the IEEE Board of Directors (2010-2012, 2015), and President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2006-2007). He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal (2013-2019). Dr. Rabindra Nath Shaw is currently working as Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department also holding the post of Director, International Relations of Galgotias University India. He is an alumnus of the Applied Physics department, University of Calcutta, India. He is Senior Member of IEEE Industry Application Society, USA, and Fellow of Nikhil Bharat Shiksha Parisad, India. Dr. Shaw is a global leader in organizing international conferences. His brand of world-leading conference series includes IEEE International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON), IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA), IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies (GlobConET), International Conference on Electronics & Electrical Engineering (ICEEE), International Conference on Advances in Computing and Information Technology (ICACIT), etc. He holds the position of Conference Chair, Publication Chair, and Editor for these conferences. These conferences are held in collaboration with various international universities like Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, University of Malaya, and University of Siena. Many world leaders are working with Dr. Shaw in these conferences. Most of these conferences are fully sponsored by IEEE Industry Applications Society, USA, and Springer Nature, Singapore. He is also an expert in organizing International Seminars/Webinars/ Faculty Development Program in collaboration with leading institutes across the world. His research interests include optimization algorithms and machine learning techniques for power systems, IoT applications, renewable energy, and power electronics converters. He has published more than seventy-five papers in Scopus/Web of Science/ SCI-indexed international journal/proceedings including high-impact factor journals in the field of renewable energy. He has also published several edited books from Springer and Elsevier publishing houses. Dr. Shaw has worked on many national/ international patents. Dr. Shaw has successfully executed his duty in various positions like Governing Body Member, Center in Charge, NBA Coordinator, University Examination Coordinator, University MOOC's Coordinator, University Conference Coordinator, and Faculty in Charge, Centre of Excellence for Power Engineering and Clean Energy Integration. Dr. Ankush Ghosh is Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, The Neotia University, India, and Visiting Faculty at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He has more than 15 years of experience in Teaching, research as well as industry. He has outstanding research experiences and published more than 60 research papers in International Journal and Conferences. He was Research Fellow of the Advanced Technology Cell- DRDO, Govt. of India. He was awarded National Scholarship by HRD, Govt. of India. He received his Ph.D. (Engg.) Degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2010. His UG and PG teaching assignments include microprocessor and microcontroller, AI, IOT, Embedded and real-time systems, etc. He has delivered Invited lecture in a number of international seminar/conferences, refreshers course, and FDPs. He has guided a large number of M.Tech. and Ph.D. students. He is Editorial Board Member of seven International Journals. Md. Rabiul Islam received the Ph.D. degree from University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia, in 2014 in electrical engineering. He was appointed Lecturer at RUET in 2005 and promoted to Full Professor in 2017. In early 2018, he joined at the School of Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Engineering (SECTE), University of Wollongong (UOW), Wollongong, Australia. He is Senior Member of IEEE. His research interests are in the fields of power electronic converters, renewable energy technologies, power quality, electrical machines, electric vehicles, and smart grid. He has authored or co-authored more than 230 papers including 70 IEEE Transactions/IEEE Journal papers. He has written or edited 5 technical books published by Springer and Taylor & Francis. He has received several Best Paper Awards including 2 Best Paper recognitions from IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion in 2020. He has served as Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on Applied superconductivity and IET Electric Power Applications. Currently he is serving as Editor for IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion and IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and Associate Editor for IEEE Access. He is also editing a special issue entitled "Advances in High-frequency Isolated Power Converters" for IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics. He has received several funding from Government and Industries including Australian Government ARC Discovery Project 2020 entitled "A Next Generation Smart Solid-State Transformer for Power Grid Applications."

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Smart Drone Controller Framework - Towards an Internet of Drones.- Building of Efficient Communication System in Smart City using Wireless Sensor Network through Hybrid Optimization Technique.- Estimation of Range for Electric Vehicle Using Fuzzy Logic System.- Traffic Light Control using RFID and Deep Reinforcement Learning.- Driver Drowsiness Alert System using Real-Time Detection.- Image Processing Based Smart Traffic Control System for Smart City.- Visual Perception for Smart City Defense Administration and Intelligent Premonition Framework based on DNN.- Application of AI/IoT for Smart Renewable Energy Management in Smart Cities.- Eye-Gaze based Hands Free Access Control System for Smart City Public Interfaces.- Reliability Analysis in Cyber-Physical System Using Deep Learning for Smart Cities Industrial IoT Network Node.