Special issue on security, usability and sustainability of smart cities

摘要

Society and humans have gained real benefits from multi-disciplinary research on intelligent environments. By combining real-time information and historical data, intelligent environments make beneficial decisions for their users, which can be useful for smart cities and sustainable development. Specifically, a smart city can utilise intelligent environments to make more efficient use of traditional systems, networks and services, to deliver citizen-centred services. These intelligent systems pose new performance- and reliability-related challenges in terms of usability, security, and dependency, among other challenges. This special issue addresses some of the issues surrounding the developments, modelling, tools, design methodologies, case studies and trend-setting ideas in the areas of security, performance, usability and sustainability of intelligent environments for smart cities.