In recent years, big data analysis has been applied to the design and development of smart cities, which creates opportunities as well as challenges. It is necessary to retrieve a large amount of social media data and physical sensor data for this purpose. However, different cities have different infrastructures and populations, resulting in the sparsity of some types of data, such as social me...

Advances of information and communications technologies in general and of social media platforms in particular have changed the way people communicate and express themselves. Citizens are now using smartphones and other mobile devices to share, on an unprecedented scale, their experiences and views in blogs, micro-blogs, comments, photos, videos, and other postings in social sites. The smart ci...

Present work is based on the concept of integral safety management of system of systems and it gives the proposal of set of measures into the simultaneously modern concept of communities called “smart cities”. The target is to ensure the safe smart city, i.e. the human community that will ensure the security and the development of their citizens under the conditions of normal, abnormal and crit...