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Received: 9 January 2018

Accepted: 21 June 2018

First Online: 27 July 2018

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: Simon Elias Bibri is a Ph.D. scholar in the area of smart sustainable cities of the future and assistant professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Computer and Information Science and Department of Urban Design and Planning, Trondheim, Norway. His intellectual pursuits and endeavors have hitherto resulted in an educational background encompassing knowledge from, and meta-knowledge about, different academic and scientific disciplines. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and ten Masters of Science in diverse areas. Bibri has earned all his master’s degrees from different universities in Sweden, namely Lund University, West University, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Malmö University, Stockholm University, and Mid Sweden University. He served as a sustainability and ICT strategist, business engineer, researcher, and consultant.Bibri’s current research interests include the following areas: ICT visions of pervasive computing, big data analytics and context-aware computing, sustainable urban planning and development, sustainable cities, smart cities, sustainability transitions, and technological innovation systems. He is the author of two academic books in the field of pervasive computing and one (recently published) book in the field of smart sustainable urban planning and development.

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