On November 10, 2014, PeterEastern, a Wikipedia editor, merged the terms “intelligent city” and “smart city”. He wrote on the Smart City talk page “I have now put merge banners of Intelligent city, Ubiquitous city and MESH city‎ and am awaiting comments on those articles. I have completed to merging of these three articles, which…

My talk at the IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, 19 -21 March 2023, “Smart city ecosystems organising connected intelligence: Lessons from Mobility as a Service”.      The talk presents the latest work from URENIO Research on smart cities, connected intelligence, and innovation. There is plenty of evidence that the smart…

Tsampoulatidis, I., Komninos, N., Syrmos, E., & Bechtsis, D. (2022). Universality and Interoperability Across Smart City Ecosystems. In Streitz, N.A., Konomi, S. (eds) Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Smart Environments, Ecosystems, and Cities. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13325, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05463-1_16 Best paper, 10th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive…

A new review by WM. Dunaway of our book “Smart cities in the post-algorithmic era: Integrating technologies, platforms and governance”, a collection of 13 chapters edited by Nicos Komninos and Christina Kakderi, spells out well our argument for post-algorithmic smart cities as the future evolution of smart cities. On this occasion, below are three reviews…

This talk at the 61st Annual Meetings of Western Regional Science Association, Scottsdale, Arizona, Feb 17th – Feb 20th, is based on the paper by Kakderi, C., Komninos, N., Panori, A., & Oikonomaki, E. (2021). Next city: Learning from cities during Covid-19 to tackle climate change. Sustainability 13 (6). The Covid-19 crisis showed that a…

«Έξυπνες Πόλεις: Το μέλλον είναι ήδη εδώ» συζήτηση που διοργάνωσε το Αθηναϊκό-Μακεδονικό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων με τους Κ. Μπακογιάννη, δήμαρχο Αθηναίων, Δ. Παπαστεργίου, δήμαρχο Τρικάλων, Ν. Κομνηνό, καθηγητή ΑΠΘ, και Α. Μπρέγιαννη, συγγραφέα, με συντονισμό από τον Π. Δημητρολόπουλο, δημοσιογράφο, 15 Δεκεμβρίου 2021. “Smart Cities: The future is already here” a discussion organized by the Athens-Macedonian…

This talk at the “Nobel 1st Conference in Urbanism“, Olso 8-10 December 2021, discusses how cities change under the smart city paradigm. There is evidence that the smart city is becoming the dominant urban development and planning paradigm in the 21st-century shaping how cities and communities evolve under the impact of data, e-services and cyber-physical…

Net Zero Energy Districts (NZED) are city districts in which the annual amount of CO2 emissions released minus of emissions removed from the atmosphere tend to zero. NZEDs constitute a major component of a new generation of “smart-green” cities that combine smart city technologies and renewable energy technologies. NZEDs promote environmental sustainability; they contribute to…

International Conference: “Legal Perspectives on the Internet” – Cyberspace, The Final Frontier? Concluding And Performing Agreements – 30th-31st of October 2021 The Faculty of Law of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iasi, Law Doctoral School in partnership with the Faculty of Computer Science, the National Institute for Training and Professional Development of Lawyers – Iasi…

Workshop of the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 19 June 2021 Abstract  Intelligent cities or smart cities evolve bottom-up along with the digitisation and the creation of digital entities linked to human activities, physical space, and institutional setting of cities; but also, they progress top-down through smart city strategies and projects…