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Guimarães: Innovative and Engaged City

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Ambient Intelligence – Software and Applications –, 9th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI2018 2018)

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This paper addresses the theme of smart cities and all their influence on citizens. The concept of intelligent city is diverse, as it is influenced by the different technologies and solutions that provide citizens well-being. The solutions presented intend to go beyond the smart city definition, focusing on issues of citizen engagement, commitment and participation, walking towards the happy city definition. Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing and IoT as basis for integrating innovative solutions.

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  1. Câmara Municipal de Guimarães, Lg. Cónego José Maria Gomes, 4804-534, Guimarães, Portugal

    Ricardo Costa, Ricardo Machado & Sérgio Gonçalves

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  1. Ricardo Costa
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Correspondence to Ricardo Machado .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. ALGORITMI Centre/Departamento de Informatica, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Paulo Novais

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Chung-Ang University, South Korea, Korea (Republic of)

    Jason J. Jung

  3. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Gabriel Villarrubia González

  4. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

    Antonio Fernández-Caballero

  5. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

    Elena Navarro

  6. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

    Pascual González

  7. Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Felgueiras, Portugal

    Davide Carneiro

  8. ESTG, Politécnico do Porto and CRACS & INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal

    António Pinto

  9. Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

    Andrew T. Campbell

  10. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Dalila Durães

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Costa, R., Machado, R., Gonçalves, S. (2019). Guimarães: Innovative and Engaged City. In: Novais, P., et al. Ambient Intelligence – Software and Applications –, 9th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence. ISAmI2018 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 806. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01746-0_1

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