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Introduction toCCSCS’2019 Fa´bioSILVAa,c,1,TiagoOLIVEIRA b andCesarANALIDEa, andPauloNOVAISa aCentroALGORITMI,UniversityofMinho,Braga,Portugal bNational Instituteof Informatics, Japan cPolytechnic InstituteofPorto,Porugal SmartCities canbeconsideredas anewparadigmor a concept that is emergingall over theworldasanecessaryandunavoidable response to theconstanturbanpopulation growth and associated technical,material, social, andorganizational problems, in order to improve the quality of life of their citizens, and to provide amore economic com- petitive, sustainable and livable city.The recentdevelopmentof important technologies, such as lowpowerminiature sensingdevices, high-speedwireless andwired communi- cationnetworks, andhigh-performancecomputing systems, enables the creationofnew possibilities andcapabilities, fostering theopportunities for smart city realizations. Intelligent solutions to the referredproblems, intended tocontrolpervasivecomput- ing systems, such as citizen-aware intelligent environments,will help and contribute to theconstructionofa sustainable smart city, providingvalue-added, intelligent, adaptive, context-aware, user-centric and sustainability services, with realizations such as smart home/smart building, smart energy, smartmobility, smart parking, smart health or citi- zenswell-being, that is, providing smart services intended tobemore efficient,with re- duced resource consumption and promoting thewell-being and good quality of life of their citizens,without neglecting the benefits of a citizen sensor.With the citizen as an active andproactive actor of the Internet ofThings, reliable anddefinitive solutions for problematics such asRoadSafety andVulnerableRoadUsers, among others, could fi- nallyemerge.However, thesmartcityrealizationmeanseverythingshouldbeconsidered in large scale, in real-time, dynamically, with uncertainty with restrictions, and adapt to different objectives. Furthermore, the standard computational intelligence algorithms maybe insufficientornot robust enough todealwith smart citybigdataanalytics. The purpose of this workshop is to gather and present new and original research towards citizen-centric solutionswithin the ambit of intelligent environments and smart cities, capable of active context awareness, automatically changing their functioning in response to discovered context, enabling thatway the improvement not only of city ef- ficiencies, but also citizens quality of life. It also an opportunity to gather experts in the area to exchange ideas and create collaboration opportunities between different re- searchersand researchgroups. This third edition of theWorkshoponCitizenCentric SmartCities Solutions (CC- SCS’19)presents articles centeredaroundcitizencentric services.The themesproposed for thisworkshop range from the proposition ofmethodologies for intelligent environ- ments to the analysis of concrete problems such tourism, traffic, financial services or 1Corresponding Authors and CCSCS’2018 Chairs: Fa´a´bio Silva, Tiago Oliveira, Cesar Analide, Paulo Novais;E-mail: fabiosilva@di.uminho.pt, toliveira@nii.ac.jp, analide@di.uminho.pt, pjon@di.uminho.pt Intelligent Environments 2019 A. Muñoz et al. (Eds.) © 2019 The authors and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). doi:10.3233/AISE190017 15