...Yongtai Chen; Rui Li; En-yu Zeng; Pengfei Li Purpose This study aims to analyze the relevance of the city spatial structure for smart city innovation from the perspective of agglomeration externalities, and discusses whether there is heterogeneity in innovation across different geographical areas...

... to examine and explore artificial intelligence (AI) enabled robots in hospitality industry in order to enhance guest experience in a smart city. Design/methodology/approach Semistructured interviews have been conducted at Novotel Ambassador Seoul Dongdaemun Hotels and Residences, Seoul, South Korea...

..., and the profitability of energy storage operator is observed to be decreasing with the total storage capacity. This study provides new insights for the energy management in the smart city, and the modeling framework can be applied to regions with different resource endowments. Design/methodology/approach...

...Weiqing Wang; Zengbin Zhang; Liukai Wang; Xiaobo Zhang; Zhenyu Zhang Purpose The purpose of this study is to forecast the development performance of important economies in a smart city using mixed-frequency data. Design/methodology/approach This study introduces reverse unrestricted mixed-data...

...Zhe Jing; Yan Luo; Xiaotong Li; Xin Xu Purpose A smart city is a potential solution to the problems caused by the unprecedented speed of urbanization. However, the increasing availability of big data is a challenge for transforming a city into a smart one. Conventional statistics and econometric...