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23. ICST Transactions on Future Cities

Preamble:
High-speed, high-bandwidth ICT infrastructures and ubiquitous and pervasive computing add an information and communication layer to the built and the social environments of today's cities. This layer is bound to radically transform cities into dense, highly integrated, seamless and hybrid socio-technical ecosystems of people, communities, knowledge and technology. These ecosystems rely on complex interactions between human users, hard- and software, and formal and informal institutions of society. At the same time, cities as the places of the highest concentration of human population very intensely face the challenges of current and future societal, technical an environmental development, transformation and evolution, such as sustainability, resilience, citizen participation, or the public domain. ICT can act as an enabler and as a driver for or indeed as a barrier to city transformation. It can foster seamless or disruptive development; its complexity might hinder fast progress, and legacy technology might impede change. And finally, technology never exists in isolation but in social, political and environmental contexts that have evolved over time and keep evolving into the future. As such the topic of future cities and ICT blends into questions of future Internet, energy supply, transportation, education, social equality, urban planning, multimodal transport, smart cities/smart home and many more.

Scope:
The ICST Transactions on Future Cities is positioned as a scholarly publication for high quality research, discussion, implementation and evolution of the above mentioned complex, interdisciplinary issues. We will publish original scientific works reporting on prominent advances that challenge traditional thinking to find solutions to the ongoing challenges that future cities are facing and will be facing. For ICT to become a prime contributor to the accomplishment of sustainable development will require active involvement by people motivated to achieve it. The ICST Transactions on Future Cities will a cross-disciplinary research character and focus to helping researchers/people/decision makers/technology and contact providers benefit from a world where they are connected to each other, targeted to the interest groups of the living labs and its major open innovation collaborators (like the European Network of Living Labs, Future Centers and Creative Commons) on a PPPP (public-private-people partnership) collaboration base.
Editorial Board:

Dr. Ron Dvir is an architect of innovation engines and future centers, specializing in integrating the organizational, methodological, physical, technological and financial perspectives of innovation into a working open innovation system. Ron is the editor of “OpenFutures – an operating system for Futures Centers”, and co-editor of several books and papers about disruptive innovation and innovation management. He co-led several large scales international research projects in this domain. In 2000 Dr. Dvir founded Innovation Ecology which develops and implements a systematic practice to the creation of innovation-catalyzing working environments.   He is a partner in Future Center Alliance.  Ron is passionate about the power of visualization and art in science and business – and promotes this passion in all his projects.

Prof. Dr. Patricia Wolf is Research Director and Professor on General Management at the Institute of Management and Regional Economics at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland. Additionally, she works as Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland and is Visiting Professor on Knowledge and Innovation Mangement at Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil. Her major area of expertise are processes of knowledge transformation in groups, communities, cities and regions impacting regional development.

Dr. Peter Troxler has worked in academia. Peter holds a MSc in Operations Management from ETH Zurich, Switzerland (1993) and a Dr. sc. techn. in Industrial Management (PhD, 1999). He has worked in academia as a researcher at ETH Zurich (1993-1999) and as a research manager at the University of Aberdeen (2001-2004). He has served on the scientific advisory board of several academic conferences in the areas of knowledge management and design and has been on the editorial board of book publications on systems engineering and knowledge management. Peter currently works as a Senior Project Manager at Waag Society in Amsterdam where he develops and realizes trans- and interdisciplinary work including and integrating arts, academia, media and public involvement. Peter also is president of UnBla.org, an organization that develops conferences that bring together academia and practitioners; and he occasionally takes management consultancy assignments in the area of regional cluster management, strategy development and implementation, and integrated management.

EIC’s keywords
Third-Generation Knowledge Management, Ubiquitous, Ambient and Pervasive computing; Open standards; Public domain; Knowledge cities; Urban planning and development, Regional/Urban Innovation support, User centric Open Innovation, Living Lab, Content-aware networking infrastructures.

Editor in Chief:

Prof. Dr. Simone Schweikert 
Institute of Management and Regional Economics
Lucerne School of Business
Simone.schweikert@hslu.ch

Dr. Barnabas TAKACS
Digital Elite Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA.
BTakacs@digitalElite.net
http://www.DigitalElite.net

Prof. Dr. Simone Schweikert:
Simone Schweikert is the Head of General Management at the Institute of Management and Regional Economics of the Lucerne School of Business. As coordinator of the European Framework Project “Regional Innovation Strategy for Central Switzerland”, she explored the innovation potential of the region as well as many regional innovation systems in Europe. Her business background includes a hidden champion crafts company as well as consulting and financial services. Her academic background is in business administration and economics at Witten/Herdecke University, University of St. Gallen and Stanford University. The combination of strategy and innovation in relation to the underlying individual and organizational development processes is the common denominator in her biography. She is in internationally recognized researcher in Strategy Management in a Global World, her research activities sheds light at ways and tools to leverage the value of diversity within strategic management: from integral thinking to multi-stakeholder involvement in the global future cities.

Dr. Barnabas Takacs:
Barnabás Takács (PhD. 97, M.Sci’94) was born in Budapest, Hungary.  He is an internationally recognized scientist with over 50 scientific publications and business leader who developed many cutting edge technologies for a variety of innovation-driven industries, included the future spaces (home, cities) .His research interest include developing the technological foundation for virtual reality, real-time virtual humans, modelling, face recognition, motion tracking, and AI-based intelligent conversational agents for interaction. Dr. Takács started his career in 1999, as the Director of Research of Virtual Celebrity Productions (Los Angeles, California, USA) where he headed the R&D of a novel animation technology, called Digital Cloning which, for the fist time, used computer animation to create believable CG-humans for the film industry. Subsequently, he founded Digital Elite Inc. (Los Angeles, California, USA) to bring these technologies to the realm of real-time and interactive characters for virtual reality application. He is also the co-founder of Digital Custom Inc. (San Francisco, California, USA), which is the leading custom image editing service provider in the U.S with worldwide services reaching five continents.  Dr. Takács currently holds a lecturer position at Harvard Medical School (BWH) in Boston, MA, USA and heads the Virtual Human Interface Group at SZTAKI, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary.

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