The amount of digital data available in the world doubles almost every year. Managed well, this data can be used to extract new sources of knowledge for daily business use. Multidisciplinary Computational Intelligence Techniques: Applications in Business, Engineering, and Medicine explores the complex world of computational intelligence, which utilizes computational methodologies such as fuzzy logic systems, neural networks, and evolutionary computation for the purpose of managing and usin...

A Smart Grid delivers renewable energy as a main source of electricity from producers to consumers using two-way monitoring through Smart Meter technology that can remotely control consumer electricity use. This can help to storage excess energy; reduce costs, increase reliability and transparency, and make processes more efficiently. Smart Grids: Opportunities, Developments, and Trends discusses advances in Smart Grid in today’s dynamic and rapid growing global economical and tec...

This book is dedicated to applied computational intelligence and soft computing techniques with special reference to decision support in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), where the physical as well as the communication segment of the networked entities interact with each other. The joint dynamics of such systems result in a complex combination of computers, software, networks and physical processes all combined to establish a process flow at system level.This volume provides the audien...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, IDCS 2017, held in Mana Island, Fiji, in December 2017.The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers focus on emerging models, paradigms, technologies and novel applications related to Internet-based distributed systems, including Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, next-genera...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing, DataCom 2022, which took place in Denarau Island, Fiji, in December 2022.The 30 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers detail big data analytics solutions, distributed computation paradigms, on-demand services, autonomic systems, and pervasive applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, IDCS 2016, held in Wuhan, China, in September 2016.The 30 full papers and 18 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: body sensor networks and wearable devices; cloud computing and networking; distributed computing and big data; distributed scheduling and optimiza...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Internet of Vehicles, IOV 2016, held in Nadi, Fiji, in December 2016.The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions.IOV 2016 is intended to play an important role for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IOV architectures, protocols, services, and applications, as we...

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...

This open access book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Third Conference on Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, SVCC 2022, held as virtual event, in August 17–19, 2022.The 8 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. The contributions are divided into the following thematic blocks: Malware Analysis; Blockchain and Smart Contracts; Remote Device Assessment.This is an open access book.

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th China Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2022, held in Beijing, China, in August 2022.The 17 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: data security; anomaly detection; cryptocurrency; information security; vulnerabilities; mobile internet; threat intelligence; text recognition.

Due to the tremendous amount of data generated daily from fields such as business, research, and sciences, big data is everywhere. Therefore, alternative management and processing methods have to be created to handle this complex and unstructured data size. Big Data Management, Technologies, and Applications discusses the exponential growth of information size and the innovative methods for data capture, storage, sharing, and analysis for big data. With its prevalence, this collection of a...

Software Architecture for Big Data and the Cloud is designed to be a single resource that brings together research on how software architectures can solve the challenges imposed by building big data software systems. The challenges of big data on the software architecture can relate to scale, security, integrity, performance, concurrency, parallelism, and dependability, amongst others. Big data handling requires rethinking architectural solutions to meet functional and non-functional requi...