Call for Papers-SI on UCF-AI

Special Issue on Urban Climate Futures: AI and Smart City Solutions

Aims and Scope

Rapid urbanization and accelerating climate change are placing cities at the center of the global climate challenge. Urban areas are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions while simultaneously facing increasing exposure to heatwaves, urban heat islands, flooding, air pollution, and other climate-related hazards.
Artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins, smart sensing, and data-driven urban technologies are creating new opportunities to understand, predict, and manage these challenges. These approaches can support climate-responsive urban planning, improve building and infrastructure performance, strengthen early-warning and adaptation systems, and enable more effective mitigation strategies.
This Special Issue invites original research, systematic reviews, perspectives, and case studies examining how AI and smart city technologies can contribute to climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience at the building, neighborhood, and urban scales. Particular attention is given to studies that move beyond technological demonstration and provide measurable environmental performance, validated methods, real-world applications, or implications for urban policy and decision-making.

Lead Guest Editor

Pengyuan Shen
Tsinghua University, China
Research Areas: Building performance and comfort, AI and performance-driven design, Climate change impact and adaptation (building and urban scale), Urban climate and mitigation strategies

Guest Editors

Shady Attia
University of Liège, Belgium
Research Areas: Sustainable architecture, Building performance, Carbon footprint calculation, Zero energy buildings, Thermal comfort, Climate change, Indoor environmental quality, Bioclimatic design

Sheng Liu
Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Research Areas: Sustainable architecture, Urban microclimate, Climate change, Building performance simulation

 

Special Issue Information

The contributions from researchers describing their original, unpublished, research contribution on the following theme (but not limited to):

  • AI and machine learning for urban climate modeling, forecasting, and scenario analysis
  • AI for urban heat island assessment, heat-risk prediction, and heat mitigation
  • Smart sensing, IoT, and remote sensing for urban environmental monitoring
  • AI-driven energy management for buildings, districts, transportation, and urban infrastructure
  • Digital twins for climate-responsive urban planning and climate resilience
  • AI-supported building and urban energy modeling
  • Smart mobility and AI-enabled strategies for urban decarbonization
  • AI and data analytics for nature-based solutions and urban greening
  • Climate-risk assessment, early-warning systems, and disaster resilience
  • Smart water management, stormwater prediction, and urban flood resilience
  • AI for climate-resilient urban design and planning
  • Urban-scale carbon assessment, prediction, and mitigation using AI
  • Data governance, explainable AI, ethics, privacy, and equity in climate-smart cities
  • Decision-support systems for climate adaptation and mitigation
  • Policy and governance frameworks for AI-enabled climate action
  • Real-world demonstrations, living labs, and city-scale case studies

 

Manuscript Submission Information

Submission deadline: 1st June 2027

Submissions that pass pre-check will be reviewed by at least two reviewers of the specific field.

 

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