| Abstract |
Smart cities are complex and large distributed systems characterized by their heterogeneity, security, and reliability challenges. In addition, they are required to take into account several scalability, efficiency, safety, real-time responses, and smartness issues. All of this means that building smart city applications is extremely complex. Swarm Intelligence is a very promising paradigm to deal with such complex and dynamic systems. It presents robust, scalable and self-organized behaviors to deal with dynamic and fast changing systems. The intelligence of cities can be modeled as a swarm of digital telecommunication networks (the nerves), ubiquitously embedded intelligence (the brains), sensors and tags (the sensory organs), and software (the knowledge and cognitive competence). In this chapter, swarm intelligence-based algorithms and existing swarm intelligence-based smart city solutions will be analyzed. Moreover, a swarm-based framework for smart cities will be presented. Then, a set of trends on how to use swarm intelligence in smart cities, in order to make them flexible and scalable, will be investigated. |
