Network Design And Optimization For Smart Cities

This comprehensive reference text is a collection of important research findings on the latest developments in network modeling for optimization of smart cities. Such models can be used from outlining the fundamental concepts of urban development to the description and optimization of physical networks, such as power, water or telecommunications. Networks help us understand city economics and various aspects of human interactions within cities with particular applications in quality of life and the flow of people and goods. Finally, the natural environment and even the climate of cities can be modeled and managed as networks.

This book’s title “Networks Design and Optimization for Smart Cities” highlights the focus areas in the broad theme of smart cities:

- it contains discussions about networked applications, not individual or isolated solutions and discusses complex case of integration,
- it discusses how to systematically design the functions of smart cities and behind it establish intelligence in the form of optimization methodologies,
- it presents real world applications that can be used to exemplify further developments.

The book encompasses a broad spectrum of applications aspiring to cover most of the functional aspects of a modern city:

- Network Models for City Economics and Integrated Urban Management
- Network Optimization and Integration for Utilities: Power, Water, Waste and Telecommunications
- Flow of Goods and People in Urban Networks
- Social Networking and Urban Nexus in Smart Cities
- Networks in Environmental Design and Urban Planning of Green Cities
- Understanding and Modeling Modern Cities as Networks.