Society heavily depends on infrastructure systems, such as road-traffic networks, water networks, electricity networks, etc. Infrastructure systems are hereby considered to be large-scale, networked systems, that almost everybody uses on a daily basis, and that are so vital that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the defense or economic security and functioning of society. The operation and control of existing infrastructures such as road-traffic networks, water networks, electricity networks, etc. are failing: too often we are confronted with capacity problems, unsafety, unreliability and inefficiency. This book concentrates on a wide range of problems concerning the way infrastructures are functioning today and discuss novel advanced, intelligent, methods and tools for the operation and control of existing and future infrastructures.

While many of its traditional elements, such as roads and utilities, do not change, urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of new information and communication technologies. This volume brings together many of the most important new voices in the fields impacting modern urban infrastructure to explore this revolutionary change in the city. Increasingly, it is connective systems rather than built forms that bind a city together. Intelligent infrastructure confers upon a city previously unimagined levels of adaptability, with mobile telephony serving to organize people and events on the move and in real time. Beginning with a consideration of invisible networks—the sociohistorical systems that contribute to and constitute urbanity—the essays collected here examine a variety of actual tools, from handheld devices to autonomous vehicles, within a fully networked built environment: the smart city. This book argues that knowledge of both the visible and invisible components--information, energy, sustainability, transportation, housing, and social practices--are critical to understanding the urban environment. The dynamic and diverse cast of contributors includes Mitchell Schwarzer, Frederic Stout, Anthony Townsend, Carlo Ratti of the MIT SENSEable City Lab, Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE, and many other innovators who are changing the urban landscape.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures, FABULOUS 2022, held in May 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 18 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers are organized in thematic sessions on: Future access networks; Internet of Things and smart city/smart environment applications; Information and communications technology; Sustainable communications and computing infrastructures.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures, FABULOUS 2017, held in Bucharest, Romania, in October 2017. The 37 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The main topics deal with future access networks, Internet of Things and smart city/smart environment applications, communications and computing infrastructures, security aspects in communication and data processing, signal processing and multimedia.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures, FABULOUS 2015, held in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, in September 2015. The 39 revised papers cover the broad areas of future wireless networks, ambient and assisted living, smart infrastructures and security and reflect the fast developing and vibrant penetration of IoT technologies in diverse areas of human live.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures, FABULOUS 2019, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in March 2019. This year’s conference topic covers Globalization through Advanced Digital Technologies – as the digitalization in all spheres of life has an impressive influence on communication and daily life in general. The 39 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The main topics deal with: healthcare/wellness applications; IoT and sensor networks; IoT security in the digital transformation era; wireless communications and networks; virtual engineering and simulations.

Discusses the convergence of knowledge and learning management and provides state-of-the art knowledge with a semantic web perspective.