Contributed by: Michela Robba, michela.robba@unige.it
Deadline Extension: Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems on Smart citynetworks
Scope: In recent years, there is a growing interest on sustainable and smart cities in which advanced technologies for data collection and elaboration are being developed together with technologies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions reduction (such as renewables, electric vehicles, high efficiency production plants, etc.). Cities need more efficient water, transportation, and energy systems to address various challenges including a growing population, environmental and economical sustainability, and resiliency to natural disasters and/or unpredicted events. The focus of this special issue is to assemble new advances in the study of smart city-networks. Network control methods that enable optimization and resiliency constitute one example. The use of data-driven techniques, including many that are based on machine learning, is another. Graph-theoretic and game theoretic solutions that help understand these networks and interface between these networks are essential. Tradeoffs regarding problems with smart city-networks (such as resiliency and privacy, performance and computational complexity of various algorithms, etc.) need to be suitably characterized.
Challenges precipitated due to large amounts of data and the scale of these networks need to be addressed. Both theoretical and practical explorations of this topic are necessary. Specific topics include (but not limited to):
Distributed control and optimization for smart city networks (traffic, transportation, water, energy, telecommunication, gas, smart grids, supply chains and production systems, etc.)
Fault detection and state estimation of water, transportation and energy networks
Machine learning-based control and optimization for smart city’s networks
Optimal control of smart city networks
Control, optimization, and communication interconnected Smart city networks.
Resiliency and privacy of smart city networks
Issues related to big-data and their connection to analysis and synthesis of efficient networks
Cyber-physical security and cyber-physical human systems of large-scale networks
Applications to real smart city networks (water, energy, transportation, traffic, energy communities, etc.)
Applications to interconnected smart city networks (e.g., power grid and electric mobility, water networks and district heating, energy communities including smart buildings and distributed generation, integration with the ICT network, etc.)
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2021
Completion of the first round review: July 2021
Completion of the second round review: December 2021
Final submission due: April 2022
Tentative publication date: June 2022
Guest Editors
- Michela Robba, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
- Giulio Ferro, Assistant Researcher, PhD, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
- Rong Su, Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
- Anuradha Annaswamy, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Eng., Director, Active-adaptive Control Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
- Christos Cassandras, Professor, Head, Division of Systems Engineering, Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE), Boston University, Boston, MA
- Karl Johansson, Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
