Author Description

<p><i>Collective Intelligence for Smart Cities</i> begins with an overview of the fundamental issues and concepts of smart cities. Surveying the current state-of-the-art research in the field, the book delves deeply into key smart city developments such as health and well-being, transportation, safety, energy, environment and sustainability. In addition, the book focuses on the role of IoT cloud computing and big data, specifically in smart city development. Users will find a unique, overarching perspective that ties together these concepts based on collective intelligence, a concept for quantifying mass activity familiar to many social science and life science researchers.Sections explore how group decision-making emerges from the consensus of the collective, collaborative and competitive activities of many individuals, along with future perspectives.</p><ul> <li>Provides collective intelligence-based solutions to enhance smart city well-being</li> <li>Recommends strategies to ensure smart city sustainability and optimization, including smart transportation</li> <li>Considers cloud-based data processing approaches for managing data collected from smart city applications</li> <li>Uses case studies to shows successful application in a variety of smart city contexts</li></ul>