Intelligent Decision Support Systems for Smart City Applications

This book provides smart city frameworks to address new difficulties by adding new features and allowing the city environment to react to collected data and information to increase the efficiency and sustainability of services for inhabitants.

Making a smart city is an emerging strategy to mitigate the problems generated by urban population growth and rapid urbanization. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the concept of smart cities and the application of an intelligent decision support system. Based on the analysis of existing information there are eight critical factors of smart city initiatives: management and organization, technology, governance, policy context, people and communities, economy, built infrastructure, and natural environment. This book will focus on the application of the decision support system in managing these eight crucial aspects of smart cities.

The intent in writing this book was also to provide a source that covers the stage-by-stage integration of the four key areas involving planning, physical infrastructure, ICT infrastructure, and deploying the smart solutions necessary for city transformation. With this as the motivation, “Decision Support Systems for Smart City Applications” provides the application of an intelligent decision support system for effectively and efficiently managing the transformation process, which can aid various supply chain stakeholders, academic researchers, and related professionals in building smart cities. Various chapters of this book are expected to support practicing managers during the implementation of smart solutions for city transformation.

Audience

This book is aimed at both academics and practitioners alike in the fields of intelligent computing, decision support systems, the manufacturing industry, supply chain managers, stakeholders, policymakers, and other technical and administrative personnel.

Loveleen Gaur, PhD, a full professor at Amity International Business School, Amity University, Noida is an established researcher and has filed many patents and copyrights in the area of AI/ML/IoT. She has been honored with prestigious national and international awards such as the “Senior Women Educator & Scholar Award” by National Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development on Women’s Day, “Sri Ram Award” by Delhi Management Association (DMA), and “Distinguished Research Award” by Allied Academies, Jacksonville, Florida.

Vernika Agarwal, PhD, is an assistant professor (operations research) at Amity International Business School, Amity University, Noida. She has published extensively in international journals.

Prasenjit Chatterjee, PhD, is the Dean (Research and Consultancy) at MCKV Institute of Engineering, West Bengal, India. He has over 120 research papers in various international journals and peer-reviewed conferences. He has authored and edited more than 15 books on intelligent decision-making, supply chain management, optimization techniques, risk, and sustainability modeling. He has received numerous awards including Best Track Paper Award, Outstanding Reviewer Award, Best Paper Award, Outstanding Researcher Award, and University Gold Medal. Dr. Chatterjee is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Decision Analytics and Intelligent Computing.