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Smart City or Smurfs City

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014 (ICCSA 2014)

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Very often the concept of smart city is strongly related to the widespread of mobile applications, completely forgetting the essence of a city with its connected problems. The real challenge in future years will be the huge population migration from rural areas to cities. It is fundamental to manage this phenomenon with clever approaches in order to save money and environment. This paper develops some considerations on these aspects trying to lead the discussion in a correct direction.

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  1. University of Basilicata, 10,Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. University of Trieste, P. le Europa 1, 34127, Trieste, Italy

    Giuseppe Borruso

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  3. Department of Production and Systems, University of Minho, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A. C. Rocha

  4. DICAR, Polytecnico di Bari, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Carmelo Torre

  5. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Jorge Gustavo Rocha  & Maria Irene Falcão  & 

  6. Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    David Taniar

  7. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, 813-8503, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

  8. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

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Murgante, B., Borruso, G. (2014). Smart City or Smurfs City. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014. ICCSA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8580. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09129-7_53

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