New Frontiers in Cloud Computing and Internet of Things
暫譯: 雲端運算與物聯網的新前沿

本書提供了有關物聯網（IoT）和雲端計算最新發展的報告，以及它們在各種工業、科學、商業、教育和政府領域的實際應用。書中涵蓋了物聯網和雲端計算的先進研究及最新發展的前沿回顧，以及它們在後COVID時代的應用方式。本書還識別了這個時代的挑戰及其解決方案，為未來的研究指明方向，並提供了值得進一步探討的新興主題。本書作為更廣泛讀者的參考，包括研究人員、應用設計師、解決方案架構師、教師、研究生、愛好者、從業者、IT經理、決策者和政策制定者。書籍編輯是物聯網和雲端計算領域的先驅。

- 提供有關物聯網和雲端計算最新發展的報告，以及它在COVID-19時代各種應用中的幫助；
- 識別物聯網和雲端計算的挑戰及其解決方案，為未來的研究指明方向；
- 作為研究人員、應用設計師、解決方案架構師、教師和研究生的參考。

Prof Rajkumar Buyya, Fellow IEEE, is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University, commercialising its innovations in Cloud Computing. He has authored over 750 publications and seven textbooks including Mastering Cloud Computing published by McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and international markets respectively. Dr Buyya is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide (h-index=135, g-index=300, 97,100+ citations). A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature by German scientists ranked Dr Buyya as the World's Top-Cited (#1) Author and the World's Most-Productive (#1) Author in Cloud Computing. Dr Buyya is recognised as Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher for four consecutive years since 2016, IEEE Fellow, Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award by Elsevier, and the Best of the World, in Computing Systems field, by The Australian 2019 Research Review. Software technologies for Grid, Cloud, and Fog computing developed under Dr.Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 50 countries around the world. Dr Buyya has led the establishment and development of key community activities, including serving as foundation Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and five IEEE/ACM conferences. These contributions and international research leadership of Dr Buyya are recognised through the award of 2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing from the IEEE Computer Society TCSC. Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud technology developed under his leadership has received Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award. He served as founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of Software: Practice and Experience, a long-standing journal in the field established 50 years ago.

Dr Lalit Garg is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Information Systems at the University of Malta, Malta and an honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has also worked as a researcher at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Ulster University, UK. His supervision experience includes more than 190 Masters' dissertations and four PhD thesis. He has edited two books and published over 100 papers in refereed high impact journals, conferences and books, and some of his articles awarded best paper awards. He has delivered more than twenty keynote speeches in different countries, organised/chaired/co-chaired a similar number of international conferences. He was awarded research studentship in Healthcare Modelling to carry out his PhD research studies in the faculty of computing and engineering at Ulster University, UK. His doctoral research was nominated for the Operational Research Society Doctoral Prize Most Distinguished Body of Research leading to the Award of a Doctorate in the field of OR. He has also consulted numerous public and private organisations for their information system implementations. His research interests are missing data handling, machine learning, data mining, mathematical and stochastic modelling, and operational research, and their applications, especially in the healthcare domain.

Prof. Giancarlo Fortino (SM'12) is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Dept. of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and Systems (DIMES) of the University of Calabria (Unical), Rende (CS), Italy. He has a PhD degree and Laurea (MSc+BSc) degree in Computer Engineering from Unical. He is High-end Foreign Expert of China (term 2015-2018), Adjunct and Guest Professor at the Wuhan University of Technology (China), High-end Expert of HUST (China), CAS PIFI Visiting Scientist at Shenzhen (2019-2021), Distinguished Professor of Huazhong Agricultural University (China) and Associated Senior Research Fellow at the Italian National Research Council - ICAR Institute. He has also been Visiting Researcher and Professor at the International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley, USA, 97-99) and at the Queensland University of Technology (Australia, 2009), respectively. He is in the list of Top Italian Scientists (TIS) by VIA-academy, with h-index=49 and 9100+ citations according to GS. According to the SciVal tool in the last five years (2013-18), he is ranked N. 1 in the topic Middleware, Internet, and Sensor Networks and N.56 in the Computer Science field in the ranking of authors with high citation impact based on the FWCI index at the Scopus Database. He is the director of the SPEME (Smart, Pervasive and Mobile Systems Engineering) Lab at DIMES, Unical and co-director of three joint-labs on IoT technologies established with Wuhan University of Technology, Shanghai Maritime University, and Huazhong Agricultural University, respectively. His main research interests include Internet of Things computing and technology, agent-based computing, body area networks, human-machine systems, wireless sensor networks, pervasive and cloud computing, multimedia networks, and mobile health systems. He participated to many local, national and international research projects and was also the deputy coordinator and scientific & technical project manager of the EU-funded (8M) H2020 INTER-IoT project. He authored 400+ publications in journals, conferences and books. He chaired 100+ Int'l conferences/workshops, organised 60+ special issues in well-known ISI-impacted Int'l Journals, and participated in the TPC of about 500 conferences. He is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Book Series on Human-Machine Systems and of the Springer Book Series on Internet of Things: Technology, Communications and Computing, and currently serves (as associate editor) in the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Access, IEEE SMC Magazine, Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Information Fusion, and others. He is the recipient of the 2014 Andrew P. Sage SMC Best Transactions Paper Award. He is co-founder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l., a spin-off of Unical, developing innovative IoT-based systems for e-health and domotics. He is the Chair of the IEEE SMC Italian Chapter, Member-at-large of the IEEE SMCS BoG, Member of the IEEE Press Board of Directors, and founding chair of the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Interactive and Wearable Computing and Devices.

Prof Sanjay Misra is editor in chief of International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)-IGI Global, a book series IT Personnel and Project Management, and of 3 journals (IJ). He edited (with colleagues) 42 LNCS, 6 IEEE proceedings, several books (Springer, IGI), and editor in various SCIE journals. He is full Professor of Computer Engineering at Covenant University (400-500 ranked University by THE) Ota, Nigeria. He has 25 years of wide experience in academic administration and research in various universities in Asia, Europe, and Africa. He is PhD. in Information and Know. Engg (Software Engineering) from the University of Alcala, Spain and M.Tech.(Software Engineering) from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, India. As of today (15.03.2020)- As per SciVal(SCOPUS- Elsevier) analysis)- He is the most productive researcher (no. 1-) in Nigeria during 2012-2017, 2013-2018 and 2014-2019(in all subjects), in computer science no 1 in the whole country and no 4 in the whole continent. Total around 400 articles (SCOPUS/Web of Science) with 200 coauthors around the world (-90 in JCR/SCIE Journals) in the core & application area of Software Engg (SQA, SPI, SPM), Web engg, Health Informatics, Intelligent systems etc. He has delivered more than 80 keynote speeches/invited talks/public lectures in reputed conferences and institutes around the world (travelled around 60 countries). He got several awards for outstanding publications (2014 IET Software Premium Award (UK)), and from TUBITAK-Turkish Higher Education, and Atilim University).

拉吉庫馬爾·布亞（Rajkumar Buyya）教授，IEEE 會士，是澳大利亞墨爾本大學的紅蒙巴里傑出教授及雲計算與分散系統（CLOUDS）實驗室的主任。他同時擔任 Manjrasoft 的創始執行長，這是一家墨爾本大學的衍生公司，專注於雲計算的創新商業化。他已發表超過750篇論文和七本教科書，包括由麥格勞希爾（McGraw Hill）、中國機械工業出版社（China Machine Press）和摩根考夫曼（Morgan Kaufmann）分別為印度、中國和國際市場出版的《雲計算精通》（Mastering Cloud Computing）。布亞博士是全球計算機科學和軟體工程領域中被引用次數最多的作者之一（h-index=135，g-index=300，引用次數超過97,100次）。德國科學家對雲計算文獻的科學計量分析將布亞博士評為全球引用次數最高的作者（#1）和全球生產力最高的作者（#1）。自2016年以來，布亞博士連續四年被認定為Web of Science的高被引研究者，並獲得IEEE會士、2017年Scopus年度研究者及Elsevier的卓越創新研究獎，以及2019年《澳大利亞研究回顧》評選的計算系統領域最佳研究者。布亞博士領導下開發的網格、雲和霧計算軟體技術在全球50個國家的多所學術機構和商業企業中迅速獲得接受並投入使用。布亞博士主導了多項社區活動的建立和發展，包括擔任IEEE可擴展計算技術委員會的創始主席及五場IEEE/ACM會議的主席。布亞博士的這些貢獻和國際研究領導力獲得了2009年IEEE計算機學會TCSC頒發的可擴展計算卓越獎。Manjrasoft的Aneka雲技術在他的領導下獲得了Frost & Sullivan新產品創新獎。他曾擔任IEEE雲計算期刊的創始主編，目前擔任《軟體：實踐與經驗》期刊的主編，這是一個成立50年的長期期刊。

拉利特·加爾（Lalit Garg）博士是馬爾他馬爾他大學計算機資訊系的高級講師，並且是英國利物浦大學的榮譽講師。他曾在新加坡南洋理工大學和英國阿爾斯特大學擔任研究員。他的指導經驗包括超過190篇碩士論文和四篇博士論文。他編輯了兩本書，並在高影響力的期刊、會議和書籍上發表了超過100篇論文，其中一些文章獲得最佳論文獎。他在不同國家發表了超過二十場主題演講，組織/主持了相似數量的國際會議。他獲得了醫療建模研究生獎學金，以在英國阿爾斯特大學的計算與工程學院進行博士研究。他的博士研究被提名為運營研究學會博士獎最傑出研究體系，並導致獲得運營研究領域的博士學位。他還為許多公共和私營組織提供信息系統實施的諮詢服務。他的研究興趣包括缺失數據處理、機器學習、數據挖掘、數學和隨機建模以及運營研究及其應用，特別是在醫療領域。

詹卡洛·福爾蒂諾（Giancarlo Fortino）教授（SM'12）是意大利卡拉布里亞大學（University of Calabria，Unical）資訊、建模、電子與系統系（DIMES）的計算機工程全職教授。他擁有卡拉布里亞大學的計算機工程博士學位和學士碩士學位（Laurea）。他是中國的高端外籍專家（任期2015-2018），武漢理工大學的兼職和客座教授，中國華中農業大學的特聘教授，以及意大利國家研究委員會-ICAR研究所的高級研究員。他曾在國際計算機科學研究所（美國伯克利，1997-1999）和昆士蘭科技大學（澳大利亞，2009）擔任訪問研究員和教授。他在VIA學院的意大利科學家名單（Top Italian Scientists，TIS）中名列前茅，根據GS的數據，其h-index為49，引用次數超過9100次。根據SciVal工具的數據，在過去五年（2013-2018）中，他在中介軟體、互聯網和傳感器網絡主題中排名第一，在計算機科學領域中排名第56位，根據Scopus數據庫的FWCI指數，他在高引用影響力的作者排名中名列前茅。他是DIMES的SPEME（智能、普遍和移動系統工程）實驗室的主任，並共同負責與武漢理工大學、上海海事大學和華中農業大學建立的三個物聯網技術聯合實驗室。他的主要研究興趣包括物聯網計算和技術、基於代理的計算、人體區域網絡、人機系統、無線傳感器網絡、普遍和雲計算、多媒體網絡以及移動健康系統。他參與了許多地方、國家和國際研究項目，並擔任歐盟資助的（800萬歐元）H2020 INTER-IoT項目的副協調員和科學技術項目經理。他在期刊、會議和書籍上發表了超過400篇論文，主持了超過100場國際會議/研討會，組織了60多期在知名ISI影響的國際期刊上的特刊，並參與了約500場會議的TPC。他是IEEE人機系統書系和Springer物聯網書系的創始主編，目前擔任IEEE情感計算期刊、IEEE人機系統期刊、IEEE物聯網期刊、IEEE傳感器期刊、IEEE Access、IEEE SMC雜誌、網絡與計算應用期刊、人工智慧工程應用、信息融合等期刊的副編輯。他是2014年安德魯·P·薩奇SMC最佳交易論文獎的獲得者。他是SenSysCal S.r.l.的共同創始人和執行長，這是一家Unical的衍生公司，專注於開發基於物聯網的創新系統，用於電子健康和家居自動化。他是IEEE SMC意大利分會的主席，IEEE SMCS BoG的成員，IEEE出版社董事會成員，以及IEEE SMC互動和可穿戴計算與設備技術委員會的創始主席。

桑傑·米斯拉（Sanjay Misra）教授是國際人力資本與信息技術專業人員期刊（IJHCITP）-IGI Global的主編，IT人員與項目管理書系的主編，以及三本期刊的主編（IJ）。他與同事編輯了42本LNCS、6本IEEE會議論文集以及幾本書（Springer、IGI），並在各種SCIE期刊擔任編輯。他是尼日利亞科文頓大學（Covenant University，THE排名400-500的學校）的計算機工程全職教授。他在亞洲、歐洲和非洲的多所大學擁有25年的廣泛學術管理和研究經驗。他在西班牙阿爾卡拉大學獲得信息與知識工程（軟體工程）博士學位，並在印度莫蒂拉·尼赫魯國立技術學院獲得軟體工程碩士學位。截至今天（2020年3月15日），根據SciVal（SCOPUS-Elsevier）的分析，他在2012-2017年、2013-2018年和2014-2019年期間是尼日利亞最具生產力的研究者（排名第一），在計算機科學領域是全國第一，整個大陸排名第四。總共發表了約400篇文章（SCOPUS/Web of Science），與來自世界各地的200位合著者合作（其中90篇在JCR/SCIE期刊上），涵蓋軟體工程（SQA、SPI、SPM）、網頁工程、健康信息學、智能系統等核心和應用領域。他在世界各地的知名會議和機構中發表了超過80場主題演講/邀請演講/公共講座（旅行遍及約60個國家）。他因卓越的出版物獲得了多個獎項（2014年英國IET軟體優秀獎），以及來自TUBITAK-土耳其高等教育和阿提林大學的獎項。