TAPM for Smart Cities 2020 : Technological Advancement and Pioneering Methods for Smart Cities - Recent Advances and Future Trends

Smart cities of the future must aim to accommodate increasing urban populations and their prospects of contemporary living, integrated societies, knowledge-based workforce, factory automation, gig economies, virtual-real social behaviors, etc. This complex concoction of challenges requires technological advancement and methods including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data (BD), and Blockchain (BC) techniques for more efficiency and sustainability of smart cities. AI, BD, and BC are gaining significant attention in solving many real-life problems. They have been applied in clustering, control, design, image processing, information processing & retrieval, knowledge representation & reasoning, marketing, medical diagnosis, optimization, pattern classification, production planning & scheduling, quality control, etc.
This special issue focuses on the role of technological advancement in smart cities and provides a unique opportunity for disseminating to the research community recent relevant and impactful research on applications, practice, and methodologies of AI, BD, and BC techniques for smart sensing and data mining, big data analytics, cloud computing, and high-performance computing. We sincerely invite scholars worldwide to submit original and high-quality papers to this special issue. 
This special issue provides an excellent opportunity for contributors to share research results and experiences with the aim of enhancing the understanding of effective AI, Big Data, Blockchain, and soft computing techniques to strengthen scientific cooperation in this important area. We are particularly interested in new methods for technological advancement and pioneering methods, as well as recommendations in the context of government, information organizations, educational institutes, and society. We welcome any unpublished and high-quality papers with real-world examples, solutions, recommendations, and case studies.