New Frontiers in Cloud Computing and Internet of Things

本書介紹了物聯網（IoT）和雲端運算的最新發展，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。本書涵蓋了物聯網和雲端運算的先進研究和最新發展的現狀評論，以及它們在COVID-19後時代的應用。本書還確定了這個時代的挑戰及其解決方案，為未來的研究指明了方向，並提供了進一步研究的新興主題。本書可作為研究人員、應用設計師、解決方案架構師、教師、研究生、愛好者、從業人員、IT經理、決策者和政策制定者等廣泛讀者的參考資料。本書的編輯是物聯網和雲端運算領域的先驅者。

本書提供了物聯網和雲端運算在COVID-19時代中在各種應用中的最新發展情況；
確定了物聯網和雲端運算的挑戰及其解決方案，為未來的研究指明了方向；
為研究人員、應用設計師、解決方案架構師、教師和研究生提供了參考資料。

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).

Prof Rajkumar Buyya是澳大利亞墨爾本大學的雷德蒙德·巴里傑出教授，也是雲計算和分散系統（CLOUDS）實驗室的主任。他還擔任Manjrasoft的創始首席執行官，該公司是該大學的一家分拆公司，將其在雲計算方面的創新商業化。他已經發表了超過750篇論文和七本教科書，包括由麥格羅希爾（McGraw Hill）、中國機械出版社（China Machine Press）和摩根·考夫曼（Morgan Kaufmann）分別出版的《精通雲計算》。Buyya博士是全球計算機科學和軟件工程領域引用最多的作者之一（h指數=135，g指數=300，引用次數超過97,100次）。德國科學家對雲計算文獻進行的科學計量分析將Buyya博士評為全球引用次數最多（第一名）的作者和全球最具生產力（第一名）的雲計算作者。Buyya博士連續四年（自2016年起）被Web of Science評為高引用研究人員，他還是IEEE Fellow、2017年Scopus年度研究人員（由愛思唯爾頒發的創新研究獎）和2019年澳大利亞研究評論中計算系統領域的最佳人物。在Buyya博士的領導下開發的用於網格、雲和Fog計算的軟件技術已經在全球50個國家的多所學術機構和商業企業中得到快速接受和應用。Buyya博士還帶領建立和發展了一些重要的社區活動，包括擔任IEEE可擴展計算技術委員會的創始主席和五個IEEE/ACM會議。Buyya博士的這些貢獻和國際研究領導地位獲得了IEEE計算機學會TCSC頒發的2009年可擴展計算卓越獎章。在他的領導下開發的Manjrasoft的Aneka Cloud技術獲得了Frost＆Sullivan的新產品創新獎。他曾擔任IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing的創始主編，目前擔任軟件：實踐與經驗的主編，這是一本成立50年的領域內的長期期刊。

Lalit Garg博士是馬爾他大學計算機信息系統的高級講師，也是英國利物浦大學的名譽講師。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。他的指導經驗包括指導超過190篇碩士論文和四篇博士論文。他編輯了兩本書，發表了100多篇在被引用的高影響力期刊、會議和書籍中的論文，其中一些論文獲得了最佳論文獎。他在不同國家發表了二十多次主題演講，組織/主持/共同主持了相同數量的國際會議。他獲得了在英國阿爾斯特大學計算和工程學院進行醫療建模博士研究的研究生獎學金。他的博士研究被提名為運籌學會頒發的最傑出研究成果博士獎。他還為許多公共和私營組織提供信息系統實施方面的諮詢。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籌學，尤其是在醫療領域的應用。

Giancarlo Fortino教授是意大利卡拉布里亞大學（Unical）信息建模、電子和系統（DIMES）系的計算機工程全職教授。他擁有Unical的計算機工程博士學位和Laurea（碩士+學士）學位。他是中國的高端外國專家（2015-2018年任期），也是武漢理工大學（中國）的兼職和客座教授。他是意大利雷德蒙德·巴里傑出教授（Unical）的計算機工程系的全職教授。他擁有Unical的計算機工程博士學位和Laurea（碩士+學士）學位。他是中國的高端外國專家（2015-2018年任期），也是武漢理工大學（中國）的兼職和客座教授。