Information Innovation Technology in Smart Cities

Introduction: Information Innovation in the Development of Smart City.- Advanced Data Center Network Infrastructure.- New Generation of Big Data Processing.- Big Data Processing for Smart Health.- Accelerating the Evolution of Smart Cities with the Internet of Things.- Internet of Things: Security, Privacy and Reliability.- Security and Privacy of Big Data in a Cloud Environment.- Software Design and Development of ICT Based Smart Applications.- Cyber: Physical Energy Systems and Smart Grid.- Smart Collaborative Platforms and Logistics.

Dr. Ismail is an Associate Professor at the College of Information Technology (CIT) of the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), UAE, joined in 2005, and is the founder and director of the High Performance, Grid & Cloud Computing Research Laboratory at CIT, and the UAEU supercomputer, with state-of-the-art architecture and technology. Dr. Ismail completed higher studies (DEA) in distributed systems at the Joseph Fourrier University (Grenoble I)/ENSIMAG Engineering School in France, and earned Ph.D. in distributed systems from Computer Engineering/Distributed Systems from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, in September 2000 with very honorable degree.
Dr. Ismail has a vast industrial and academic experience; at Sun Microsystems R&D Center, worked on the design and implementation of highly-available distributed systems; and participated in the deposit of a US patent in the domain. She served in teaching at Grenoble I, France, Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut, and has been serving as an Adjunct Professor at the Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute Curtin University, Australia. Dr. Ismail current research interests include performance analysis in distributed systems, energy efficiency and management, green computing, resource management and scheduling problems in distributed systems with emphasis in clouds, middleware, High Performance Computing, and software security in distributed systems. She won the IBM Shared University Research Award and the IBM Faculty Award, very competitive world-wide, won funding for major projects as a PI/Co-PI and the funded project by UAE/NRF was top ranked by external reviewers following a competition.Dr. Ismail has international collaborations and publishing her research results in prestigious journals and international conferences. She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, and Editorial Board Member of the