This book highlights the latest advancements, innovation, technology, and real-world challenges and solutions related to smart critical infrastructure. In addition, it provides quantitative and qualitative research innovations to individual, academic, organizational and industry practitioners in a wide range of practical solutions using emerging technologies in areas such as smart sensing, data acquisition, data analytics, data processing, and other related topics, such as security, privac...

This book highlights the latest design and development of security issues and various defences to construct safe, secure and trusted Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). In addition, the book presents a detailed analysis of the recent approaches to security solutions and future research directions for large-scale CPS, including its various challenges and significant security requirements. Furthermore, the book provides practical guidance on delivering robust, privacy, and trust-aware CPS at scale...

From the Foreword:"Big Data Management and Processing is [a] state-of-the-art book that deals with a wide range of topical themes in the field of Big Data. The book, which probes many issues related to this exciting and rapidly growing field, covers processing, management, analytics, and applications... [It] is a very valuable addition to the literature. It will serve as a source of up-to-date research in this continuously developing area. The book also provides an opportunity for ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage, SpaCCS 2020, held in Nanjing, China, in December 2020.The 30 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions.The papers cover many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassi...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the satellite workshops held around the 19th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2021, held in Kamakura, Japan, in June 2021.The 26 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They stem from the following workshops:AIBlock 2021:Third International Workshop on Application Intelligence and Blockchain SecurityAIHWS 2021:Second Int...

This book provides an essential compilation of relevant and cutting edge academic and industry work on key cybersecurity applications topics. Further, it introduces cybersecurity applications to the public at large to develop their cybersecurity applications knowledge and awareness. The book concentrates on a wide range of advances related to Cybersecurity Applications which include, among others, applications in the areas of Data Science, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Robot...

In this fast-paced global economy, academia and industry must innovate to evolve and succeed. Today’s researchers and industry experts are seeking transformative technologies to meet the challenges of tomorrow. Cutting-edge technological advances in cybersecurity solutions aid in enabling the security of complex heterogeneous high-performance computing (HPC) environments. On the other hand, HPC facilitates powerful and intelligent innovative models for reducing time to response to identify...

This book covers the theory, design and applications of computer networks, distributed computing and information systems. Networks of today are going through a rapid evolution, and there are many emerging areas of information networking and their applications. Heterogeneous networking supported by recent technological advances in low-power wireless communications along with silicon integration of various functionalities such as sensing, communications, intelligence and actuations is emergi...

This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the Second Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, held in San Jose, USA, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a virtual format.The 9 full papers and one shoprt paper presented in this volume were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They present most recent research on dependability, reliability, and security to address cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, faults, and errors in...

This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, EuroCybersec 2021, held in Nice, France, in October 2021.The 9 papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers focus on topics of security of distributed interconnected systems, software systems, Internet of Things, health informatics systems, energy systems, digital citi...

Big Data: Principles and Paradigms captures the state-of-the-art research on the architectural aspects, technologies, and applications of Big Data. The book identifies potential future directions and technologies that facilitate insight into numerous scientific, business, and consumer applications. To help realize Big Data's full potential, the book addresses numerous challenges, offering the conceptual and technological solutions for tackling them. These challenges include life-cycle data...

This book highlights future research directions and latent solutions by integrating AI and Blockchain 6G networks, comprising computation efficiency, algorithms robustness, hardware development and energy management. This book brings together leading researchers in Academia and industry from diverse backgrounds to deliver to the technical community an outline of emerging technologies, advanced architectures, challenges, open issues and future directions of 6G networks. This book is written...