[AISWorld] Call for Book Chapters: Smart cities development and trends: cases and research opportunities - Deadline 31 March 2022

[SmartCity EFST]

Dear colleagues,

The publisher Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism, University of 
Split is currently running a scientific monography on "Smart cities 
development and trends: cases and research opportunities” (Editors: Maja 
Ćukušić, Anton Manfreda and Mario Jadrić). The content of this book is 
intended to contribute to challenges of managing a smart city, 
technology acceptance issues and new underlying business models. The 
book will provide theoretical and empirical underpinnings regarding the 
development and current trends of the smart city concept together with 
proposing future research opportunities.
SHORT DESCRIPTION

Managing digitalization is becoming increasingly demanding due to 
rapidly evolving innovations and the difficulty of managing the 
complexity of related technologies. However, these issues are not 
challenging for organizations and individuals only, but also for cities 
and local communities. In particular, cities are faced with major 
challenges arising from global shifts in the environment, rapid 
urbanization and older infrastructure. As a result, several smart 
city-related initiatives are emerging. Yet, not all successful. The book 
will thus focus on the analysis of new business models, technological 
innovations and their use related to the development of smart cities. 
After all, the spread of technology and the availability of data 
automatically collected generate create new opportunities for managing 
public services and for the creation of new services.
TARGET AUDIENCE

The primary audience of this book will be academics interested in the 
smart city concept, government organizations, managers, policy makers, 
and strategic planners who intend to understand emerging digital 
technologies, their impact and applicability on cities.

RECOMMENDED THEMES AND TOPICS

We are seeking chapters that are discussing the digital technologies 
used in smart cities such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, 
the Internet of the Things (IoT) and others. The book will also include 
strategies to implement and manage these digital technologies together 
with the discussion on new business models. The Chapters in this book 
will be grouped in two parts – part one will include general theoretical 
and technical discussions of technologies and their benefits for modern 
cities and part two will include use cases of different digital 
technologies and business models in different cities.

The topics of interest for this book include but not limited to the 
following:
•    Determinants of acceptance and use of different technologies in 
smart cities
•    Implementation of Smart cities related technological innovations
•    Transport infrastructure as a one of the key factors for the urban 
sustainability
•    Importance of standardisation and interoperability of solutions for 
smart city development
•    Governance in smart cities
•    Simulation modelling of smart services in cities
•    Challenges of managing a smart city
•    Trends and success factors in the development of smart cities
•    Best practices and different use cases
•    Development of new business models in smart cities
•    User experience management in the context of smart cities
•    Big data and dashboards in cities
•    Predictive Analytics for Managing Smart Cities
•    Process mining and service optimisation in cities

We invite you to submit a book chapter on any of the previous mentioned 
or related topics. The book is intended to highlight the work of 
academic scholars, policy makers, and practitioners involved, who are 
interested in the issue of smart city governance, locally and 
internationally.
FORMATTING

All final chapters must have 4,000-8,000 words.


Please, send a final chapter to smartcity at efst.hr by 31 March 2022. 
Submitted book chapters should not be under consideration for 
publication elsewhere.
In the hope that this invitation receives your favourable consideration, 
we look forward to our future collaboration.

Kind regards,
Maja Ćukušić, Anton Manfreda and Mario Jadrić
University of Split, Faculty of Economics, Business And Tourism
University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business



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