An Aristotle University Lab focusing on research for Intelligent Cities and Regions Urenio’s current research emphasis is on intelligent cities and regions.
The URBAN AND REGIONAL INNOVATION Research Unit (URENIO) is a university laboratory for the promotion of research and supply of scientific and technological services. URENIO is part of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Intelligent cities constitute a discrete category of intelligent environments created by the agglome
05/10/2021
Understanding Resiliency: What It Means to be a Resilient City and Tools to Support
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Understanding Resiliency: What It Means to be a Resilient City and Tools to Support The whitepaper “Understanding Resiliency: What It Means to be a Resilient City and Tools to Support” provides an analysis on the necessity for resiliency strategies and the challenges of implementi…
27/08/2021
New Paper: Intelligence and Co-Creation in Smart Specialisation Strategies: Towards the Next Stage of RIS3
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Intelligence and Co-Creation in Smart Specialisation Strategies: Towards the Next Stage of RIS3 The recently published white paper on “Intelligence and Co-creation in Smart Specialisation Strategies” outlines some key conclusions from the Online S3 project. The project was funded under the Ho…
05/08/2021
Smart and Resilient Urban Futures for Sustainability in the Post COVID-19 Era: A Review of Policy Responses on Urban Mobility
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Smart and Resilient Urban Futures for Sustainability in the Post COVID-19 Era: A Review of Policy Responses on Urban Mobility This paper opens a discussion on the transformational impact that the pandemic brought to the sector of mobility within the urban environment. The analysis focuses on the promotion of sustainabilit…
23/07/2021
Soft computing for abuse detection using cyber-physical and social big data in cognitive smart cities.
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Soft computing for abuse detection using cyber-physical and social big data in cognitive smart cities This study offers a systematic literature review on the use of soft computing techniques for abuse detection in the complex cyber–physical–social big data systems in cognitive smart cities. The obj…
13/07/2021
RC21 Conference "Sensing and Shaping the City"
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RC21 Conference “Sensing and Shaping the City” The 2021 annual conference of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development will take place this week, from Wednesday 14th of July until Friday …
01/07/2021
A Literature Review of E-government Services with Gamification Elements
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A Literature Review of E-government Services with Gamification Elements This document contains a literature review of the gamification topic, providing a conceptual background, and presenting a selection and analysis of the applications to e-government services. It ide…
25/06/2021
Convergence innovation in the digital age and in the COVID-19 pandemic crisis
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Convergence innovation in the digital age and in the COVID-19 pandemic crisis This paper presents Convergence Innovation (CI) as a new sustainable core competence of organizations. It explores how CI can be a catalyst for managing the current COVID-19 pandemic and charting t…
16/06/2021
An Ethical Framework for Big Data and Smart Cities
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An Ethical Framework for Big Data and Smart Cities This paper presents an ethical framework for Big Data and Smart Cities. By reviewing recent studies on both the technological development and ethical problems in the emerging industries, this resea…
11/06/2021
Impact of COVID-19 on IoT Adoption in Healthcare, Smart Homes, Smart Buildings, Smart Cities, Transportation and Industrial IoT
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Impact of COVID-19 on IoT Adoption in Healthcare, Smart Homes, Smart Buildings, Smart Cities, Transportation and Industrial IoT In this paper, the authors discuss the potential impact of COVID-19 on the adoption of IoT in different sectors namely healthcare, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, transportation and ind…
07/06/2021
Searching for a Smart City: A Bibliographic Analysis of ‘Public Facing’ EU Smart City Projects
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Searching for a Smart City: A Bibliographic Analysis of ‘Public Facing’ EU Smart City Projects This study critically analyses the term smart city taking into account how the term is used by practitioners and policy-makers across the EU and within individual countries over time. Harnessing qu…
30/04/2021
The annual conference of Boston Area Research Initiative is starting today, April 30th, under the theme “Building Back Smarter”. The event is fully online and is marking the institute’s 10th anniversary....
BARI Conference 2021: Building Back Smarter The annual conference of Boston Area Research Initiative is starting today, April 30th, under the theme “Building Back Smarter”. The event is fully online and is marking the institute’s 10th annive…
07/04/2021
Renegotiating Spatial Planning Practices: the role of collective initiatives and informal networks
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Renegotiating Spatial Planning Practices: the role of collective initiatives and informal networks This paper introduces an alternative narrative for urban resilience. It attempts to emphasize the value of community and its prospect to create bottom-up, non-capital oriented and non-bureaucratic …