Cloud of Things: Foundations, Applications, and Challenges

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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 SantAnna 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.