Cloud of Things: Foundations, Applications, and Challenges

雲端運算是指根據使用者需求提供計算系統資源，尤其是資料儲存和計算能力，而無需使用者直接主動管理。本書探討了關鍵智能技術，包括雲端運算和物聯網的演算法、協議和系統設計原則。

- 討論了雲端運算中的系統設計原則，以及人工智能、機器學習和數據分析應用
- 提出了基於區塊鏈的解決方案、物聯網應用和深度學習方法來解決實際問題
- 強調了重要概念，包括物聯網架構、雲端服務管理和虛擬化，以及資源管理技術
- 涵蓋了先進技術，包括霧運算、邊緣運算和分散式智能
- 探討了雲端運算技術、寬頻網絡和互聯網架構、互聯網服務提供商（ISP）和無連接分組交換。

本書主要針對研究生、學術研究人員和計算機科學與工程、電氣工程和資訊技術領域的專業人士撰寫。

Jitendra Kumar (https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-2938-6432)

Dr Jitendra Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India (an institution of national importance). Dr Kumar obtained his PhD in Machine Learning and Cloud Computing from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. He has authored and published many research articles in peer-reviewed and indexed journals and conferences of high repute. He is a senior member of IEEE and several other IEEE technical committees, including CIS, TCCLD, TCSVC, and SIGHT. He is also a member of ACM and MIR Labs. He is an active review board member of various journals and conferences of repute like 'IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems', 'IEEE Transactions on Computers', 'IEEE Systems Journal', 'IEEE Access', 'IJCNN', 'FUZZ-IEEE', 'CEC', etc. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Computational Intelligence, Time Series Forecasting, and Optimization.

Gangadharan G R (https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-0764-2650)

Gangadharan G R is working as an Associate Professor in the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. His research interests are mainly located on the interface between technological and business perspectives. His areas of research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, and Cloud Computing. He has received Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Technology (2008) from the University of Trento, Trento, Italy and European University Association and an M.S. in Information Technology (2004) from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.

Ashutosh Kumar Singh (https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-5050)

Dr. Ashutosh Kumar Singh is an esteemed researcher and academician in Electrical and Computer engineering. Prof. Ashutosh Kumar Singh is the Director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology Bhopal, India (an institution of national importance). He has more than 20 years of research, teaching and administrative experience in various University systems in India, the UK, Australia and Malaysia. Dr. Singh obtained his Ph. D. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-BHU, India; Post Doc from the Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, United Kingdom; and Charted Engineer from the United Kingdom. He is the recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship for a visit to the University of Tokyo and other universities in Japan. Dr. Singh was a visiting scientist in Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Goethe University, Germany.

His research area includes Verification, Synthesis, Design and Testing of Digital Circuits, Predictive Data Analytics, Data Security in the Cloud, and Web Technology. He has more than 380 publications, which include peer-reviewed journals, books, conferences, book chapters and news magazines in these areas. He has co-authored eleven books, including "Machine Learning for Cloud Management", "Web Spam Detection Application using Neural Network", "Digital Systems Fundamentals", and "Computer System Organization & Architecture". Prof. Singh has worked as principal investigator/investigator for six sponsored research projects and was a key member of a project from EPSRC (United Kingdom) entitled "Logic Verification and Synthesis in New Framework". Dr Singh has visited several countries, including Australia, the United Kingdom, South Korea, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Germany and the USA, for collaborative research, invited talks, and presented his research work. He is also serving as an editorial board member, guest editor, and associate editor in various journals of high repute.

Chung-Nan Lee (https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-0789-1956)

Prof. Chung-Nan Lee received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1980 and 1982, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1992. Since 1992, he has been with National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering from 1992 to 1999; he was the Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering from August 1999 to July, 2001; Director of Wireless Broadband Communication Protocol Cross-Campus Research Center from 2013 to 2017; President of Taiwan Association of Cloud Computing from 2015 to 2017; currently, he is a Distinguished Professor and Director of Cloud Computing Research Center; Board of Governors of APSIPA from 2017. In 2016 he received the outstanding engineering professor from Chinese Institute of Engineers, Taiwan. His current research interests include multimedia over wireless networks, cloud computing, and evolutionary computing.

Jitendra Kumar（https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2938-6432）
Jitendra Kumar博士是印度泰米爾納德邦國立工業技術學院計算機應用系的助理教授（一所具有國家重要性的機構）。Kumar博士在印度哈里亞納邦國立工業技術學院獲得機器學習和雲計算的博士學位。他在具有高聲譽的同行評審和索引期刊和會議上撰寫並發表了許多研究文章。他是IEEE的高級會員，並且是IEEE的幾個技術委員會（包括CIS、TCCLD、TCSVC和SIGHT）的成員。他還是ACM和MIR Labs的成員。他是各種具有聲譽的期刊和會議（如“IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems”，“IEEE Transactions on Computers”，“IEEE Systems Journal”，“IEEE Access”，“IJCNN”，“FUZZ-IEEE”，“CEC”等）的活躍審稿委員會成員。他的研究興趣包括雲計算、機器學習、計算智能、時間序列預測和優化。

Gangadharan G R（https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0764-2650）
Gangadharan G R是印度泰米爾納德邦國立工業技術學院的副教授。他的研究興趣主要集中在技術和商業觀點之間的界面上。他的研究興趣包括人工智能、機器學習、大數據分析和雲計算。他在意大利特倫托大學和Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna獲得了信息和通信技術的博士學位和信息技術的碩士學位。他是IEEE和ACM的高級會員。

Ashutosh Kumar Singh（https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-5050）
Ashutosh Kumar Singh博士是電氣和計算機工程領域的傑出研究員和學者。Ashutosh Kumar Singh教授是印度博帕爾印度資訊技術學院的院長（一所具有國家重要性的機構）。他在印度班加羅爾印度理工學院獲得了電子工程的博士學位，並在英國布里斯托大學的計算機科學系進行了博士後研究。他還獲得了英國的特許工程師資格。他曾獲得日本學術振興會（JSPS）的獎學金，訪問了東京大學和日本的其他大學。Singh博士曾在德國法蘭克福高級研究所、歌德大學擔任訪問科學家。

他的研究領域包括數字電路的驗證、合成、設計和測試、預測性數據分析、雲中的數據安全和Web技術。他在這些領域發表了超過380篇論文，包括同行評審的期刊、書籍、會議、書籍章節和新聞雜誌。他合著了十一本書，包括《雲管理的機器學習》、《使用神經網絡的網絡垃圾郵件檢測應用》、《數字系統基礎》和《計算機系統組織與架構》。Singh教授曾擔任六個贊助研究項目的主要調查員/調查員，並且是英國工程和自然科學研究委員會（EPSRC）項目的重要成員，該項目名為“新框架中的邏輯驗證和合成”。Singh博士曾訪問過澳大利亞、英國、韓國、中國、泰國、印尼、日本、德國和美國等多個國家，進行合作研究、邀請演講和發表研究成果。他還在多個高聲譽期刊擔任編輯委員會成員、客座編輯和副編輯。

Chung-Nan Lee（https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0789-1956）
Chung-Nan Lee教授