The bi-annual journal of big data and smart city is an international journal that aims to publish the finest original, peer research articles in all the fields relating to enhancing the support in building smart city support services by utilization of big data analytics. The journal publishes open-access articles with an Arabic translation of abstracts. The journal publishes the original research based on the relevance of themes, originality, and of interdisciplinary nature. The contributions and submission themes are not limited to multiple uses of technologies in health and education, transportation and energy, climate, social services, and digitalization. The journal accepts double-blind peer-reviewed articles, research notes, features, short research articles, and book reviews for the community of scholars and the public. The journal further aims to provide a platform for scientists, researchers, and students to contribute to news, insights, novel and creative ideas, projects, and innovations affecting smart city services, sustainability, and enhancing the standards of living.
The manuscripts are accepted but not limited to the following fields:
- The sustainable and innovative architecture of a Smart City based on Big Data analytics
- System design, modeling, and evaluation within a Smart City
- Security, privacy, trust, and legal issues to big data
- Big data collection and analysis for smart and connected communities
- Urban computing and big data analytics
- Social computing big data and networks for smart cities
- Urban planning big data evaluation and assessment
- Smart city big data governance and management
- Data mining and machine learning for smart cities
- Smart city transportation big data and analytics
- Big data sensing and IoT frameworks and infrastructures
- Big data infrastructures and warehouses for smart cities
- Smart building big data evaluation
- Big data modeling and frameworks for smart cities
- Big data security and privacy for smart cities
- Big data-based city environment monitoring, analytics, and prediction
- Smart city open data
- Creative use of technology for smart buildings and home
- Smart cities and key issues in well being
- Advanced communication systems and approaches for smart cities
- New developments in smart cities and regions
- Sensors, actuators, and their networking in smart cities
- Management, configuration, and deployment of smart city infrastructure
- Energy-aware systems and technologies
- Sustainable computing and communications
- Computational intelligence and soft computing (genetic algorithm, neural networks, fuzzy logic)
- Modeling of complex energy, mobility, health, society, and e-government systems
- Technologies for utility business transformation
- Next-generation distribution systems, smart sensors
- Impact of distributed energy resources, smart grid (Electric cars, demand response, distributed generations, storage)
- Energy-efficient hardware and software solutions
- Creative use of technologies to analyze and measure/assess well-being
- Big data architecture, computer networks, network security
- Storage architectures, grid computing, service-oriented architecture
- Data privacy and security issues in intelligent systems
- Cloud computing framework for big data processing
- Data privacy and security issues in intelligent systems
- Big data acquisition, preprocessing, data storage and management, knowledge management
- Big data intelligent computing, machine learning, pattern recognition, signal processing, image processing, bioinformatics
- Big data analysis, applications
- Modeling technology and systems for big data
- Big data mining, data warehousing, big data visualization
- Smart data for business intelligence, business process integration, and management
- Explore standardized smart data formats and privacy & protection, data convergence
- Evaluate best practices in smart data handling
- Smart data for social entrepreneurship and community engagement
- Market Opportunities in Smart Cities
- Smart document and records management
- Data warehousing and Business Analytics
- Case Studies and Innovative Applications
Focus:
The journal focuses on original contributions on the mentioned themes and areas which are linked to the technology used in smart cities by utilizing big data in reducing the cost and resource consumption, engagement of citizens for overall improvement in sustainability, and improvement in the living standards. Publishing research ideas helps to forge links between the community of scholars in various geographical locations, filling the knowledge gap of the limited provision of research journals in this area and providing the platform for sharing projects, ideas, themes, and initiatives.