This book addresses a broad range of topics concerning machine learning, big data, the Internet of things (IoT), and security in the IoT. Its goal is to bring together several innovative studies on these areas, in order to help researchers, engineers, and designers in several interdisciplinary domains pursue related applications. It presents an overview of the various algorithms used, focusing on the advantages and disadvantages of each in the fields of machine learning and big data. It also covers next-generation computing paradigms that are expected to support wireless networking with high data transfer rates and autonomous decision-making capabilities. In turn, the book discusses IoT applications (e.g. healthcare applications) that generate a huge amount of sensor data and imaging data that must be handled correctly for further processing. In the traditional IoT ecosystem, cloud computing offers a solution for the efficient management of huge amounts of data, thanks to its ability to access shared resources and provide a common infrastructure in a ubiquitous manner. Though these new technologies are invaluable, they also reveal serious IoT security challenges. IoT applications are vulnerable to various types of attack such as eavesdropping, spoofing and false data injection, the man-in-the-middle attack, replay attack, denial-of-service attack, jamming attack, flooding attack, etc. These and other security issues in the Internet of things are explored in detail. In addition to highlighting outstanding research and recent advances from around the globe, the book reports on current challenges and future directions in the IoT. Accordingly, it offers engineers, professionals, researchers, and designers an applied-oriented resource to support them in a broad range of interdisciplinary areas.

With rise of smart medical sensors, cloud computing and the health care technologies, “connected health” is getting remarkable consideration everywhere. Recently, the Internet of Things (IoT) has brought the vision of a smarter world into reality. Cloud computing fits well in this scenario as it can provide high quality of clinical experience. Thus an IoT-cloud convergence can play a vital role in healthcare by offering better insight of heterogeneous healthcare content supporting quality care. It can also support powerful processing and storage facilities of huge data to provide automated decision making. This book aims to report quality research on recent advances towards IoT-Cloud convergence for smart healthcare, more specifically to the state-of-the-art approaches, design, development and innovative use of those convergence methods for providing insights into healthcare service demands. Students, researchers, and medical experts in the field of information technology, medicine, cloud computing, soft computing technologies, IoT and the related fields can benefit from this handbook in handling real-time challenges in healthcare. Current books are limited to focus either on soft computing algorithms or smart healthcare. Integration of smart and cloud computing models in healthcare resulting in connected health is explored in detail in this book.

This book extends the work from introduction of ubiquitous computing, to the Internet of things to security and to privacy aspects of ubiquitous computing. The uniqueness of this book is the combination of important fields like the Internet of things and ubiquitous computing. It assumes that the readers’ goal is to achieve a complete understanding of IoT, smart computing, security issues, challenges and possible solutions. It is not oriented towards any specific use cases and security issues; privacy threats in ubiquitous computing problems are discussed across various domains. This book is motivating to address privacy threats in new inventions for a wide range of stakeholders like layman to educated users, villages to metros and national to global levels. This book contains numerous examples, case studies, technical descriptions, scenarios, procedures, algorithms and protocols. The main endeavour of this book is threat analysis and activity modelling of attacks in order to give an actual view of the ubiquitous computing applications. The unique approach will help readers for a better understanding.

Security implementation is crucial in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) as it ensures the protection of sensitive medical data and prevents unauthorized access to or manipulation of devices and systems. This book covers different aspects of security implementations and challenges in IoMT and aims to bring researchers together to contribute their findings to recommend new methodologies and feasible solutions for implementing security and novel architectures in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science in the field of healthcare and IoT. IoMT includes a wide range of connected medical devices and systems, such as wearable devices, medical sensors, and electronic health records, that collect, store, and share sensitive medical information. Without proper security measures, this information could be compromised, leading to serious privacy breaches, financial fraud, and even physical harm to patients.

This book features selected papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Recent Innovations in Computing (ICRIC 2022), held on August 13–14, 2022, organized by the ELTE, Hungary in association with Knowledge University, Erbil and many academic and industry partners which includes; European Institute of Data Analytics (EiDA), Dublin, Ireland and CSRL Lab, India . The book is second part of the two volumes, and it includes the latest research in the areas of software engineering, cloud computing, computer networks and Internet technologies, artificial intelligence, information security, database and distributed computing, and digital India.

This book discusses the unique nature and complexity of fog data analytics (FDA) and develops a comprehensive taxonomy abstracted into a process model. The exponential increase in sensors and smart gadgets (collectively referred as smart devices or Internet of things (IoT) devices) has generated significant amount of heterogeneous and multimodal data, known as big data. To deal with this big data, we require efficient and effective solutions, such as data mining, data analytics and reduction to be deployed at the edge of fog devices on a cloud. Current research and development efforts generally focus on big data analytics and overlook the difficulty of facilitating fog data analytics (FDA). This book presents a model that addresses various research challenges, such as accessibility, scalability, fog nodes communication, nodal collaboration, heterogeneity, reliability, and quality of service (QoS) requirements, and includes case studies demonstrating its implementation. Focusing on FDA in IoT and requirements related to Industry 4.0, it also covers all aspects required to manage the complexity of FDA for IoT applications and also develops a comprehensive taxonomy.

Within higher education, there are enormous untapped opportunities for product/services companies, administrators, educators, start-ups. and technology professionals to begin embracing artificial intelligence (AI) across the student ecosystem and infuse innovation into traditional academic processes by leveraging disruptive technologies. This type of human-machine interface presents the immediate potential to change the way we learn, memorize, access, and create information. These solutions present new openings for education for all while fostering lifelong learning in a strengthened model that can preserve the integrity of core values and the purpose of higher education. Impact of AI Technologies on Teaching, Learning, and Research in Higher Education explores the phenomena of the emergence of the use of AI in teaching and learning in higher education, including examining the positive and negative aspects of AI. Recent technological advancements and the increasing speed of adopting new technologies in higher education are discussed in order to predict the future nature of higher education in a world where AI is part of the fabric of universities. The book also investigates educational implications of emerging technologies on the way students learn and how institutions teach and evolve. Finally, challenges for the adoption of these technologies for teaching, learning, student support, and administration are addressed. Highlighting such tools as machine learning, natural language processing, and self-learning systems, this scholarly book is of interest to university administrators, educational software developers, instructional designers, policymakers, government officials, academicians, researchers, and students, as well as international agencies, organizations, and professionals interested in implementing AI in higher education.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put massive stress on healthcare professionals’ formal training, their creed to do no harm, and the patient safety movement. COVID-19 affects all aspects of daily life and healthcare’s organizational culture and values. Healthcare institutions experience absenteeism, change in commerce patterns, and interrupted supply/delivery in this context. It has also revealed the extensive amounts of data needed for population health management, as well as the opportunities afforded by mainstreaming telehealth and virtual care capabilities, thus making the implementation of health IT essential in the post-pandemic era. Quality of Healthcare in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic clarifies how healthcare professionals might provide their services differently than treating a patient through its vicinity with multiple providers. It examines the notion that healthcare education requires a pack of healthcare workers from varied educational backgrounds and training levels for the nuances of a disease. Covering topics such as blockchain technology, power density analysis, and supply chain, this book is a valuable resource for undergraduate and extended degree program students, graduate students of healthcare quality and health services management, healthcare managers, health professionals, researchers, professors, and academicians.

This book offers a basic understanding of the Internet of Things (IoT), its design issues and challenges for healthcare applications. It also provides details of the challenges of healthcare big data, role of big data in healthcare and techniques, and tools for IoT in healthcare. This book offers a strong foundation to a beginner. All technical details that include healthcare data collection unit, technologies and tools used for the big data analytics implementation are explained in a clear and organized format.

The book presents theoretical and experimental approaches, quantitative and qualitative analyses, and simulations in wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks. It further explains the power and routing optimization in underwater sensor networks, advanced cross-layer framework, challenges and security issues in underwater sensor networks, and the use of machine learning and deep learning techniques for security implementations in wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks. This book: Discusses mobile ad-hoc network routing issues and challenges with node mobility and resource limitations Covers the internet of vehicles, autonomous vehicle architecture, and design of heterogeneous wireless sensor networks Presents various technologies of ad-hoc networks, use of machine learning, and deep learning techniques in wireless sensor networks Illustrates recent advancements in security mechanisms for information dissemination in mobile ad-hoc networks, vehicular ad-hoc networks, flying ad-hoc networks, and autonomous vehicles Highlights mathematical modeling and analysis of routing protocols for ad-hoc networks and underwater sensor networks It is primarily written for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and academicians in the fields of computer science and engineering, information technology, electrical engineering, and electronics and communications engineering.