Swarm Intelligence Applications for the Cities of the Future

Leonor Domingos is a PhD Arch (specialized in Digital Architecture since 2022), guest professor at the Department of Applied Digital Technologies of ISCTE Sintra and integrated researcher at ISTAR – Research Center for Information Sciences, Technology and Architecture. She’s the deputy coordinator of the research group Digital Living Spaces. Her research is focused on building sustainability assessment, energy efficiency, resilient cities, building adaptability for climate change, visual programming and digital transformation and education. She started working as an architect in Lisbon in 2017 and has recently been focused on research and education. She has worked on three Erasmus+ projects (already finished), two Horizon Europe (ongoing) and one Digital Skills programme (ongoing) as a team member. She has published in conferences and journals about design and construction for climate resilience, smart buildings, smart cities, and digital learning environments. She’s also a journal reviewer for Emerald Group publishing and part of the scientific committee for conferences focused on digital architecture and construction. Maria José Sousa has a PhD in Management with Habilitation in Management and Public Management. She was Pro-Rector for the Development of Distance Learning and is a professor and a research fellow at ISCTE/Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. She has assumed a postdoc position from 2016-2018, researching that field, with several publications in journals with high impact factor and has worked as an expert in a project of the European Commission for the creation of a new category regarding digital skills to be integrated with the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS). Her research interests currently are public policies of Innovation and Education. She is a bestselling author in Research Methods, ICT and People Management and has co-authored over 180 articles and book chapters in high-level journals (such as the Journal of Business Research, Management Decision, European Planning Studies, Information Systems Frontiers, Systems Research, and Behavioral Science, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others), and she is the guest-editor of several Special Issues from reputed publishing houses as Springer and Elsevier. She was/is the coordinator of several European projects of innovation (funded by programs as Erasmus +, Horizon Europe, and ICMPD) and is also External Expert of COST Association - European Cooperation in Science and Technology.

Preface. Social Learning and Citizens’ Engagement in Future Cities. Technology as a Social Learning and Citizen Engagement Facilitator. Public Policies for Green Cities in the Digital Age. Innovative Reporting for Resilient Cities Bridging Sustainability and Transparency. Digital Tools for the Public Safety of Future Cities. Sensors and Networks for Savings and Comfort of Cities’ Inhabitants. Swarm Intelligence for Building Energy Management an Overview of the Algorithms Used for Different Types of Energy Needs. Community Energy Balancing. Design for Healthcare in Current and Future Cities Exploring Assessment Tools and Methods for Evaluating Sustainability and Inclusion in Healthcare Complex Infrastructures. The Convergence of Resilience Culture and Digital Transformation in the Cities of Future the Case Study of Milan and Rome. Current Trends and Challenges in BIM–LCA Integration. Epilogue. Index.