A Special Issue of EPJ Data Science will feature work on the subject “Smarter Cities and Societies: What We Can and Cannot Optimize For”.
The submission deadline for invited manuscripts is 31st of July 2025. Earlier submissions are welcome. We very much look forward to receiving your original manuscripts. While preparing them, please consider the scope of the journal (link) and the scope of our Special Issue (link) .
Ideally, please also address the question „What we can and cannot optimize for“. Besides a discussion of what can be done with data science approaches or computer simulations, you are encouraged to address limitations , such as ethical or cultural issues, values, or qualities like human dignity. It could also mean that we need a multi-dimensional and co-evolutionary approach to promote thriving cities and societies - or anything else you might think of. For example, you may discuss limitations of a data science approach, of optimization, of computational possibilities, simulation or prediction attempts.
The link for submission is now available SUMBIT
Here are two thematically related collections of publications you may also be interested in:
- Special Issue on Ethics of Smart Cities and Smart Societies
- Theme Issue on Co-Creating the Future: Participatory Cities and Digital Governance
This workshop is partially supported by the project CoCi – Co-Evolving City Life, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 833168).
