Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things
暫譯: 人工智慧與物聯網的融合

本書匯集了關於新興人工智慧（AI）方法的最新研究成果，這些方法用於處理和儲存由雲端物聯網（IoT）基礎設施生成的數據。主要主題包括未來物聯網應用和架構中基於AI的機制的分析和開發。此外，本書還探討了新的技術發展、當前的研究趨勢和行業需求。通過呈現案例研究、經驗和評估報告以及在物聯網網絡中利用AI應用的最佳實踐，本書在理論和實踐問題之間取得了良好的平衡。它還提供了有關AI技術各個方面的技術/科學信息，涵蓋從基本概念到研究級材料的內容，包括未來的發展方向。

本書旨在為參與物聯網相關設備的協議和AI應用設計與開發的研究人員、實務工作者、工程師和科學家提供參考。由於本書涵蓋了廣泛的移動應用和物聯網技術可以應用的場景，因此也為該領域提供了必要的入門介紹。

George Mastorakis received his B.E. (Honours) in Electronic Engineering from UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology) in 2000, his M.Sc. in Telecommunications from UCL (University College London) in 2001 and his Ph.D. in Telecommunications from the University of the Aegean in 2008. He currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at Hellenic Mediterranean University in Greece and as a Director of e-Business Intelligence Laboratory. He has actively participated in a large number of European funded research projects (FP6, FP7 and Horizon2020) and national research ones. He has also acted as a technical manager in many research projects funded by GSRT (General Secretariat for Research & Technology, Ministry of Development, Greece). He has more than 250 publications at various international conference proceedings, workshops, scientific journals and book chapters. His research interests include cognitive radio networks, IoT applications, IoE architectures, radio resource management, artificial intelligence applications, networking traffic analysis, 5G mobile networks, dynamic bandwidth management and energy-efficiency networks

Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis (male, Prof., Ph.D. since 2006) is currently a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He received a five-year dipl. Eng. (B.Sc., B.E., M.E./KISATS approved/accredited) in Electronic and Computer Engineering from Technical University of Crete, Greece, M.Sc. in Telecommunications from University College of London, UK, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Informatics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Professor Mavromoustakis is leading the Mobile Systems Lab. (MOSys Lab., www.mosys.unic.ac.cy) at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nicosia. He is the Chair of the IEEE/ R8 regional Cyprus section since November 2019, and since May 2009, he serves as the Chair of C16 Computer ^230) including several books (IDEA/IGI, Springer and Elsevier). He has served as a consultant to many industrial bodies (including Intel Corporation LLC (www.intel.com)), and he is a management member of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Radio Communications Committee (RCC) and a board member of the IEEE-SA Standards IEEE SCC42 WG2040. He has participated in several FP7/H2020/Eureka and national projects. He is a co-founder of the IEEE Technical Committee on IEEE SIG on Big Data Intelligent Networking (IEEE TC BDIN SIG) and currently serves as a Vice-chair.

Jordi Mongay Batalla (male, Prof. Ph.D.) received his M.Sc. degree from Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) in 2000 and Ph.D. degree from Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) in 2010. He worked in Centro Nazionale di Astrofisica in Bologna (Italy) and in Telcordia Poland (Ericsson R&D Co.). Currently, he is a Professor at Warsaw University of Technology and he is also with National Institute of Telecommunications, where he is the Deputy Director of research. His research interest focuses mainly on new technologies for mobile networks (network services chain, NFV, SDN, slicing, blockchain) and applications (Internet of Things, smart cities, multimedia) for the future Internet. Jordi Mongay Batalla has coordinated around ten R&D international projects and took part (coordination and/or participation) in more than 10 European ICT research projects, four of them inside the EU ICT Framework Programmes. He is Co-editor of several books on the Internet of Things and 5G, author or co-author of more than 150 papers published in books, international and national peer-reviewed journals (such as IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Systems and Springer Journal of Real-Time Image Processing) and conference proceedings (e.g. IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE/IFIP IM) and several patent appliances. Jordi Mongay Batalla is Editor of several international journals and magazines and has co-edited special issues in the most important research journals. He is involved in several standardization bodies such as ITU working groups, European Blockchain Services Infrastructure technical group and Polish Normalization Committee.

Evangelos Pallis is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Hellenic Mediterranean University in Greece and Co-director of Research and Development of Telecommunication Systems Laboratory "PASIPHAE" of the same department. He received his B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the Technological Educational Institute of Crete in 1994, his M.Sc. in Telecommunications from University of East London, in 1997, and received his Ph.D. in Telecommunications from the University of East London in 2002. His research interests are in the fields of wireless networks, mobile communication systems, digital broadcasting technologies and interactive television systems, QoS/QoE techniques and network management technologies. He has participated in a number of national and European funded R&D projects, including the AC215 "CRABS", IST-2000-26298 "MAMBO", IST-2000-28521 "SOQUET", IST-2001-34692 "REPOSIT", IST-2002-FP6-507637 "ENTHRONE", "IMOSAN", and as Technical/Scientific coordinator for the IST-2002-FP6-507312 "ATHENA" project. He has been involved within the FP7-214751 "ADAMANTIUM", in the FP7-ICT-224287 "VITAL++" and in the FP7-ICT-248652 "ALICANTE" projects and several HORIZON2020 projects. He has more than 200 publications in international scientific journals, conference papers and book chapters in the above scientific areas. He is the general chairman of the International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU), member of IET/IEE and active contributor to the IETF interconnection of content distribution networks (CDNi).

喬治·馬斯托拉基斯（George Mastorakis）於2000年在UMIST（曼徹斯特科學與技術大學）獲得電子工程榮譽學士學位，2001年在UCL（倫敦大學學院）獲得電信碩士學位，並於2008年在愛琴海大學獲得電信博士學位。他目前擔任希臘地中海大學管理科學與技術系的副教授，以及電子商務智慧實驗室的主任。他積極參與多個歐洲資助的研究項目（FP6、FP7和Horizon2020）及國家研究項目。他還擔任過多個由希臘發展部研究與技術總秘書處（GSRT）資助的研究項目的技術經理。他在各種國際會議論文集、研討會、科學期刊和書籍章節上發表了超過250篇論文。他的研究興趣包括認知無線網絡、物聯網應用、物聯網架構、無線資源管理、人工智慧應用、網絡流量分析、5G行動網絡、動態頻寬管理和能源效率網絡。

康斯坦丁·X·馬夫羅穆斯塔基斯（Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis，男，教授，2006年獲得博士學位）目前是塞浦路斯尼科西亞大學計算機科學系的教授。他在希臘克里特技術大學獲得電子與計算機工程五年制工程學位（B.Sc.、B.E.、M.E./KISATS認可），在英國倫敦大學學院獲得電信碩士學位，並在希臘塞薩洛尼基亞里士多德大學的資訊學系獲得博士學位。馬夫羅穆斯塔基斯教授領導尼科西亞大學計算機科學系的移動系統實驗室（MOSys Lab.，www.mosys.unic.ac.cy）。自2019年11月以來，他擔任IEEE/R8地區塞浦路斯分會的主席，自2009年5月以來，他擔任C16計算機的主席，包括幾本書籍（IDEA/IGI、Springer和Elsevier）。他曾擔任多個工業機構的顧問（包括英特爾公司（Intel Corporation LLC，www.intel.com）），並且是IEEE通信學會（ComSoc）無線通信委員會（RCC）的管理成員，以及IEEE-SA標準IEEE SCC42 WG2040的董事會成員。他參與了多個FP7/H2020/Eureka和國家項目。他是IEEE大數據智能網絡技術委員會（IEEE TC BDIN SIG）的共同創始人，並目前擔任副主席。

喬迪·蒙蓋·巴塔拉（Jordi Mongay Batalla，男，教授，博士）於2000年在西班牙瓦倫西亞理工大學獲得碩士學位，並於2010年在波蘭華沙科技大學獲得博士學位。他曾在意大利博洛尼亞的國家天文物理中心和波蘭的Telcordia（愛立信研發公司）工作。目前，他是華沙科技大學的教授，並在國家電信研究所擔任研究副主任。他的研究興趣主要集中在移動網絡的新技術（網絡服務鏈、NFV、SDN、切片、區塊鏈）和應用（物聯網、智慧城市、多媒體）上，以應對未來的互聯網。喬迪·蒙蓋·巴塔拉協調了約十個國際研發項目，並參與了超過10個歐洲ICT研究項目，其中四個在歐盟ICT框架計劃內。他是幾本有關物聯網和5G的書籍的共同編輯，並在書籍、國際和國內同行評審期刊（如IEEE Communications Magazine、IEEE Wireless Communications、ACM Computing Surveys、IEEE Systems和Springer Journal of Real-Time Image Processing）及會議論文集（例如IEEE Globecom、IEEE ICC、IEEE/IFIP IM）上發表了超過150篇論文，並擁有多項專利申請。喬迪·蒙蓋·巴塔拉是幾本國際期刊和雜誌的編輯，並在最重要的研究期刊中共同編輯特刊。他參與了多個標準化機構，如ITU工作組、歐洲區塊鏈服務基礎設施技術小組和波蘭標準化委員會。

埃萬傑洛斯·帕利斯（Evangelos Pallis）是希臘地中海大學電氣與計算機工程系的教授，並擔任同一系的電信系統實驗室「PASIPHAE」的研究與發展共同主任。他於1994年在克里特技術教育學院獲得電子工程學士學位，1997年在東倫敦大學獲得電信碩士學位，並於2002年在東倫敦大學獲得電信博士學位。他的研究興趣包括無線網絡、行動通信系統、數位廣播技術和互動電視系統、QoS/QoE技術及網絡管理技術。他參與了多個國家和歐洲資助的研發項目，包括AC215「CRABS」、IST-2000-26298「MAMBO」、IST-2000-28521「SOQUET」、IST-2001-34692「REPOSIT」、IST-2002-FP6-507637「ENTHRONE」、「IMOSAN」，並擔任IST-2002-FP6-507312「ATHENA」項目的技術/科學協調員。他參與了FP7-214751「ADAMANTIUM」、FP7-ICT-224287「VITAL++」和FP7-ICT-248652「ALICANTE」項目以及多個HORIZON2020項目。他在上述科學領域的國際科學期刊、會議論文和書籍章節上發表了超過200篇論文。他是國際電信與多媒體會議（TEMU）的總主席，IET/IEE的成員，並積極參與IETF內容分發網絡（CDNi）的互連工作。