This book constitutes the proceedings of this year's Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories
International Conference (SSCt 2021), held in Doha, Qatar, from the 27th to the 29th of April …

Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is a relatively new concept that involves the merging of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the Internet of Things (IoT). It has emerged from the realization …

Last mile delivery is one of the most complex processes in the whole logistics process. This
is because it involves many uncertainties, such as weather conditions, road conditions …

Load-Balancing is an important problem in distributed heterogeneous systems. In this paper,
an Agent-based load-balancing model is developed for implementation in a grid …

Load balancing has an important role in grid computing for managing jobs and allocating
them to adequate resources. An efficient load balancing algorithm can minimize execution …

The message passing interface (MPI) application is a parallel application that uses different
communication routines mixed with computation to solve the problem. When executing this …

Grid computing refers to the use of geographically scattered resources to accomplish a
shared objective. A growing number of users have led to the necessity of a task scheduling …

The concept of smart cities puts the citizen at the center of all processes. It is the citizen who
decides what kind of city they live in. Their opinions and attitudes towards technologies and …

Global warming is seen as a real threat to life on earth, for both human and animal species.
As our understanding grows regarding the high impact of human activity on climate change …

This keynote will examine the evolution of intelligent computer systems over the last years,
underscoring the need for human capital in this field, so that further progress can be made …