Books in the Topics in Intelligent Engineering and Informatics series

This easy-to-understand book discusses applications of current technologies and the foundations for their extension into emerging areas in the future. It includes research presented at two conferences:5th International IBM Cloud Academy Conference, 2017, held in Wroc¿aw, Poland.5th AsiäPacific Conference on Computer Assisted and System Engineering, 2017, held in Guilin, China.These conferences focused on system and application engineering, including achievements in the interdisciplinary topics of cloud computing, big data, IoT and mobile communications. Featuring 19 chapters, the book has the potential to influence current and future research and applications combining the best attributes of computing, mathematics, artificial intelligence, biometrics and software engineering to create a comprehensive research application domain.

Part II covers essential issues of the network management, presents intelligent models of the next generation of networks and distributed systems as well as discusses applications of modern numerical methods in large intractable systems.

This bookpresents recent research in the recognition of vulnerabilities of nationalsystems and assets which gained special attention for the CriticalInfrastructures in the last two decades.

The book gathers the chapters of Cognitive InfoCommunication research relevant to a variety of application areas, including data visualization, emotion expression, brain-computer interfaces or speech technologies. It provides an overview of the kind of cognitive capabilities that are being analyzed and developed. Based on this common ground, it may become possible to see new opportunities for synergy among disciplines that were heretofore viewed as being separate.Cognitive InfoCommunication begins by modeling human cognitive states and aptitudes in order to better understand what the user of a system is capable of comprehending and doing. The patterns of exploration and the specific tools that are described can certainly be of interest and of great relevance for all researchers who focus on modeling human states and aptitudes.This innovative research area provides answers to the latest challenges in influence of cognitive states and aptitudes in order to facilitate learning or generally improve performance in certain cognitive tasks such as decision making. Some capabilities are purely human, while others are purely artificial, but in general this distinction is rarely clear-cut. Therefore, when discussing new human cognitive capabilities, the technological background which makes them possible cannot be neglected, and indeed often plays a central role.This book highlights the synergy between various fields that are perfectly fit under the umbrella of CogInfoCom and contribute to understanding and developing new, human-artificial intelligence hybrid capabilities. These, merged capabilities are currently appearing, and the importance of the role they play in everyday life are unique to the cognitive entity generation that is currently growing up.