Many countries and governments consider smart cities a solution to global warming, population growth, and resource depletion. Numerous challenges arise while creating a smart city. Digital twins, along with the Internet of Things, fifth-generation wireless systems, blockchain, collaborative...

Request-for-quote (RFQ) is the most common way for contractor selection, which is of vital importance to the success of project outsourcing. Project clients need to choose from various available RFQ procedures to properly select and incentivize contractors. We study the RFQ design problem for...