Purpose This research paper aims at proposing a framework based on semantic integration
in Big Data for saving energy in smart cities. The presented approach highlights the potential …

Currently, the growth in building energy consumption presents raises concerns with
greenhouse gases and environmental pollution. The building occupants face significant …

The exploitation of electrical equipment and the emergence of New Information and
Communication Technologies (NICT), which led to a significant increase in electricity …

Energy efficiency of public sector is an important issue in the context of smart cities due to
the fact that buildings are the largest energy consumers, especially public buildings such as …

Energy sustainability is one of the key questions that drive the debate on cities' and urban
areas development. In parallel, artificial intelligence and cognitive computing have emerged …

The increasing interconnections of city services, the explosion of available urban data, and
the need for multidisciplinary analysis and decision making for city sustainability require new …

A city is considered to be smart when the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the
Internet of Things (IoT) is integrated with it. This enables the collection of data from people …

A smart city exploits sustainable information and communication technologies to improve the
quality and the performance of urban services for citizens and government, while reducing …

Context-awareness is an important research area. Many energy efficiency applications of
ubiquitous computing need to access some related contexts to provide the best and …

Despite there has been an increasing energy price due to factors such as supply, demand,
government regulation, among others, users do not like to spend their time to analyze their …