Smart Cities

Acknowledgments

This book would not have been possible without the help of many people. First, we would like to thank all the contributors and reviewers of the book from all over the world for their valuable input. In addition, we would like to thank our editorial assistants, Ruth Hausmann and Alicia Dröge, both at RWTH Aachen University, who provided essential support at all stages of the editorial process of the book. Also we would like to thank Divya Narayanan and Brett Kurzman at Wiley, who helped shepherd us through the book-editing process. At last, we would like to acknowledge the support of the Cluster of Excellence Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries at RWTH Aachen University, German Research Foundation, German Federation of Industrial Research Associations – AiF.

Special thanks go out to the following reviewers:

1. Syed Hassan Ahmed (Kyungpook National University)
2. Mahabir Bhandari (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
3. Safdar H. Bouk (Kyungpook National University)
4. William Braham (University of Pennsylvania)
5. Christos G. Cassandras (Boston University)
6. Zhi Chen (Arkansas Tech University)
7. Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington University)
8. Robert Dickerson (IBM)
9. David Doria (HERE)
10. Qinghe Du (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
11. Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa)
12. Yaser P. Fallah (West Virginia University)
13. Bin Guo (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
14. Yu Jiang (Tsinghua University)
15. Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa)
16. Krasimira Kapitanova (Palantir Technologies) ...