-          Interdisciplinary design and networking of large-scale urban systems

Smart Cities Enabling technologies for future living (P. Wlodarczak).- City Networking in Urban Strategic Planning (F. Fontana).- Network in Smart Cities from a Graph Theoretic Point of View (M. Haddad).- An Evaluation of Measures for the Reduction of Carbon dioxide Emissions from Automobile Traffic in Central Tokyo  (K. Yamamoto, K. Shen).  - Using Social Media Data to Infer Urban Attitudes about Bicycling: An Explanatory Case Study of Washington DC (J. Hollander, Y. Shen).  - Sustainable Mobility (F. Kehagi).- Sustainable Operation of Closed-loop Logistics Chain from an Economic and Environmental Performance Perspective (B.Y. Liu, H.D Yang).- Bridging borders: integrating data analytics, modeling, simulation and gaming for inter-disciplinary assessment of health aspects in city networks (J.Raghothama, E. Moustaid, V.M. Shreenath, S.Meijer).- Ageing in the Contemporary Urban Context: The Case of Older Residents in Genoa  (M. Palumbo, S. Poli).- A Multicriteria Ranking of Thessaloniki's Public Hospitals Based on Their Infrastructure Adequacy  (G. Chatzipoulidis, G. Aretoulis, G.Kalfakakou).- Sustainable urban living and social capital(I. Daskalopoulou).- Power distribution network planning optimization in smart cities (V.Dumbrava, T. Miclescu, G.C. Lazaroiou).- Sustainable urban water management (A. Zafirakou).- Introduction to Architectural Design Optimization (T. Wortmann and G. Nannicini).