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Introduction: Digital Cities Research and Open Issues

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Modern information and communication technologies are leaving the company and the work place, and are entering everyday life in a fast pace [1, 2, 4]. As a consequence, new research fields emerge focusing on the design, evaluation, and implications of ICT based systems for social and urban life, the field of digital cities research being one of those. This volume gives a broad and up to date overview of the research done in this field.

For an earlier overview of digital city research: [7]. For an extensive description and analysis of six digital cities: [8]

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  1. Social Sciences Department, Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, PO Box 95110, 1090 HC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  2. Ube National College of Technology, Tokiwadai, Ube, Yamaguchi, 755-8555, Japan

    Makoto Tanabe

  3. Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Toru Ishida

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  1. Ube National College of Technology, Tokiwadai, Ube City, Yamaguchi Pref., 755-8555, Japan

    Makoto Tanabe

  2. Department of Social Sciences Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Joan Muyskenweg 25, PO Box 95110, 1090 HC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  3. Social Informatics Program, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  4. Department of Social Informatics Laboratory for Global Information Network, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Toru Ishida

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van den Besselaar, P., Tanabe, M., Ishida, T. (2002). Introduction: Digital Cities Research and Open Issues. In: Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., Ishida, T. (eds) Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches. Digital Cities 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45636-8_1

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