Smart Cities as Cyber-Physical Social Systems

Christos G. Cassandras

doi:10.1016/J.ENG.2016.02.012

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Engineering ›› 2016, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (2) : 156-158. DOI: 10.1016/J.ENG.2016.02.012

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Smart Cities as Cyber-Physical Social Systems

Christos G. Cassandras

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The emerging prototype for a Smart City is one of an urban environment with a new generation of innovative services for transportation, energy distribution, healthcare, environmental monitoring, business, commerce, emergency response, and social activities. Enabling the technology for such a setting requires a viewpoint of Smart Cities as cyber-physical systems (CPSs) that include new software platforms and strict requirements for mobility, security, safety, privacy, and the processing of massive amounts of information. This paper identifies some key defining characteristics of a Smart City, discusses some lessons learned from viewing them as CPSs, and outlines some fundamental research issues that remain largely open.

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Smart Cities / Cyber-physical systems / Data-driven control

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Christos G. Cassandras. Smart Cities as Cyber-Physical Social Systems. Engineering, 2016, 2(2): 156‒158 https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ENG.2016.02.012

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