Building Information Modelling (BIM) is implemented in several sectors of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. Faced with challenges urban management, smart cities are a response to this situation. Research indicates that BIM one technological approaches great potential for designing, constructing, managing cities. Despite too few systematic reviews, paper aims highli...

The proliferation of “Smart Cities” initiatives around the world is part of the strategic response by governments to the challenges and opportunities of increasing urbanization and the rise of cities as the nexus of societal development. As a framework for urban transformation, Smart City initiatives aim to harness Information and Communication Technologies and Knowledge Infrastructures for eco...

The concept of “Smart Systems” is becoming pervasive, from smart homes to autonomous vehicles to smart grids and cities, and beyond. These advances are driven by small, embedded, and high-powered computing systems which interconnect using rapidly-advancing technologies, and which produce ever-increasing amounts of data. Although the “Internet of Things” may produce useful applications and new d...

Cities stand at the confluence of two global grand challenges—urbanization and climate change. Smart city initiatives around the global seek to leverage information technology to preserve and improve quality of urban life in face of these challenges. Given its vast experience with socio-technical systems, the IS discipline can assume a leading role on this path towards a more sustainable way of...

Nowadays, many cities around the world are trying to find smarter ways to manage challenges such as ensuring livable conditions in a context of rapid urban population growth. These cities are often referred to as Smart Cities. In the last years, researchers from many disciplines have contributed to the Smart Cities definition and implementation. In this paper we investigate how topics from two ...

Big data plays an important role in smart city. Big data analytics is one of the recent technologies that could enhance smart city services. It provides valuable insights from massive volume of data collected through various sources. The combination of big data and Internet of Things (IoT) supports urban decision makers and provides better services to the citizens. This paper is focused on revi...

It is estimated that more than half of the world population lives in cities according to (UN forecasts, 2014), so cities are vital. Cities, as we all know facing with complex challenges – for smart cities the outdated traditional planning of transportation, environmental contamination, finance management and security observations are not adequate. The developing framework for smart-city require...

The interconnection and exchange of information is a basic requirement to enable Smart Cities. Such an interconnection must be realized within each domain (vertically) as well as among different domains (horizontally). Typical domains cover energy, automotive, health, intelligent buildings, transportation, manufacturing as well as the military domain. Therefore, horizontal and vertical informat...

Cities nowadays face complex challenges to meet objectives regarding socio-economic development and quality of life. The concept of “smart cities” is a response to these challenges. This paper explores “smart cities” as environments of open and user-driven innovation for experimenting and validating Future Internet-enabled services. Based on an analysis of the current landscape of smart city pi...

ASCIMER (Assessing Smart Cities in the Mediterranean Region) is a project developed by the Universidad Politecnica of Madrid (UPM) for the EIBURS call on “Smart City Development: Applying European and International Experience to the Mediterranean Region”. Nowadays, many initiatives aimed at analysing the conception process, deployment methods or outcomes of the -referred asSmart City projects a...