Cloud of Things: Foundations, Applications, and Challenges
暫譯: 物聯網雲端：基礎、應用與挑戰

雲端運算是計算機系統資源的隨需可用性，特別是數據儲存和計算能力，而無需用戶直接主動管理。本書探討了包括雲端運算和物聯網在內的關鍵智慧技術的演算法、協議和系統設計原則。

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 Sant'Anna, 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.

**Jitendra Kumar** (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2938-6432)
Jitendra Kumar 博士是印度泰米爾納德邦提魯吉拉帕利國立技術學院計算機應用系的助理教授（國家重要機構）。Kumar 博士在印度哈里亞納邦庫魯克舍特拉國立技術學院獲得機器學習和雲計算的博士學位。他在多個高聲望的同行評審和索引期刊及會議上發表了許多研究文章。他是 IEEE 的高級會員，並參與多個 IEEE 技術委員會，包括 CIS、TCCLD、TCSVC 和 SIGHT。他也是 ACM 和 MIR Labs 的成員。他是多個知名期刊和會議的活躍審稿委員，如《IEEE 併行與分佈系統期刊》、《IEEE 計算機期刊》、《IEEE 系統期刊》、《IEEE Access》、《IJCNN》、《FUZZ-IEEE》、《CEC》等。他的研究興趣包括雲計算、機器學習、計算智能、時間序列預測和優化。

**Gangadharan G R** (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0764-2650)
Gangadharan G R 目前在印度提魯吉拉帕利國立技術學院擔任副教授。他的研究興趣主要位於技術與商業視角之間的交界處。其研究領域包括人工智慧、機器學習、大數據分析和雲計算。他於2008年在意大利特倫托大學獲得信息與通信技術的博士學位，並於2004年在意大利比薩的聖安娜高等學校獲得信息技術的碩士學位。他是 IEEE 和 ACM 的高級會員。

**Ashutosh Kumar Singh** (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-5050)
Ashutosh Kumar Singh 博士是電氣與計算機工程領域的知名研究者和學者。Ashutosh Kumar Singh 教授是印度博帕爾信息技術學院的院長（國家重要機構）。他在印度、英國、澳大利亞和馬來西亞的多個大學系統中擁有超過20年的研究、教學和行政經驗。Singh 博士在印度理工學院-BHU 獲得電子工程的博士學位；在英國布里斯托大學計算機科學系獲得博士後學位；並在英國獲得特許工程師資格。他曾獲得日本學術振興會（JSPS）獎學金，前往東京大學及日本其他大學進行訪問。Singh 博士曾在德國法蘭克福高等研究院擔任訪問科學家。

他的研究領域包括數位電路的驗證、綜合、設計和測試、預測數據分析、雲中的數據安全和網絡技術。他擁有超過380篇的出版物，包括同行評審的期刊、書籍、會議、書籍章節和新聞雜誌。他共同撰寫了十一本書籍，包括《雲管理的機器學習》、《使用神經網絡的網絡垃圾郵件檢測應用》、《數位系統基礎》和《計算機系統組織與架構》。Singh 教授曾擔任六個贊助研究項目的首席研究員/研究員，並是來自 EPSRC（英國）的一個名為《新框架中的邏輯驗證與綜合》的項目的關鍵成員。Singh 博士曾訪問多個國家，包括澳大利亞、英國、南韓、中國、泰國、印尼、日本、德國和美國，進行合作研究、受邀演講並展示他的研究成果。他還擔任多個知名期刊的編輯委員會成員、客座編輯和副編輯。

**Chung-Nan Lee** (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0789-1956)
Chung-Nan Lee 教授於1980年和1982年分別在台灣國立成功大學獲得電機工程學士和碩士學位，並於1992年在美國華盛頓大學獲得電機工程博士學位。自1992年以來，他一直在台灣高雄的國立中山大學任教，1992年至1999年擔任計算機科學與工程系的副教授；1999年8月至2001年7月擔任計算機科學與工程系主任；2013年至2017年擔任無線寬頻通信協議跨校研究中心主任；2015年至2017年擔任台灣雲計算協會會長；目前擔任雲計算研究中心的特聘教授和主任；自2017年起擔任 APSIPA 理事會成員。2016年，他獲得台灣工程師學會的傑出工程教授獎。他目前的研究興趣包括無線網絡上的多媒體、雲計算和進化計算。