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When CI and Decentralized Systems Effectively Meet Smart Cities and Grids

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A global trend has been motivating programmers, investors, and the academia to go towards decentralized systems. Besides providing efficient solutions for complex problems faced in our daily life, these peer-to-peer communication protocols have been promoting greater freedom and transparency. In this paper, we point out open fields for researching, thinking, and developing in the context of Smart Cities and Smart Grids. Future cities will surely rely on efficient, autonomous, transparent, collaborative, and decentralized environment. In particular, we consider how renewable energy resources could be integrated with mini-/microgrids, which will be hearth of the future cities. Furthermore, we discuss possibilities for promoting territorial development, through the assistance of Blockchain-based platforms embedded with Computational Intelligence tools.

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Vitor N. Coelho would like to thank the support given by FAPERJ (grant E-26/202.868/2016). Alexandre C. Barbosa would like to thank the support given by the University of Padova.

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    Vitor N. Coelho & Luiz S. Ochi

  2. Department of Computer Science, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Yuri B. Gabrich

  3. Department of Engineering and Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Thays A. Oliveira

  4. Università Degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

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  5. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  7. Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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Coelho, V.N., Gabrich, Y.B., Oliveira, T.A., Ochi, L.S., Barbosa, A.C., Coelho, I.M. (2019). When CI and Decentralized Systems Effectively Meet Smart Cities and Grids. In: Nazário Coelho, V., Machado Coelho, I., A.Oliveira, T., Ochi, L.S. (eds) Smart and Digital Cities. Urban Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12255-3_15

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