Recent advances in computing and immersive technologies have provided Meta (formerly
Facebook) with the opportunity to leapfrog or expedite its way of thinking and devising a …

The emerging phenomenon of platformization has given rise to what has been termed"
platform society,“a digitally connected world where platforms have penetrated the heart of …

The Metaverse, as a gigantic ecosystem application enabled mainly by Artificial Intelligence
(AI), the IoT, Big Data, and Extended Reality (XR) technologies, represents an idea of a …

Science and technology transform the frontiers of knowledge and have deep and powerful
impacts on society, demonstrating how social reality varies with each era of the world. As a …

With their exponentially rising computational power, digital platforms are heralding a new
era of hybrid intelligence. There has recently been much enthusiasm and hype that the …

Data infrastructures, economic processes, and governance models of digital platforms are
increasingly pervading urban sectors and spheres of urban life. This phenomenon is known …

The movie—The Matrix (1999)—boosted our imagination about how further we can be
immersed within the cyber world, ie, how further the cyber world can be indistinguishable …

As a new area of science and technology (S&T), big data science and analytics embodies
an unprecedentedly transformative power—which is manifested not only in the form of …

This timely book is concerned with the recent advances in the leading paradigms of
urbanism, namely compact cities, eco-cities, and data-driven smart cities, and the evolving …

We are moving into an era where instrumentation, datafication, and computerization are
routinely pervading the very fabric of cities, coupled with the interlinking, integration, and …