Pervasive Intelligence – Intelligence Everywhere

Dear Colleagues,

With the deployment of the most advanced digital technologies with sensing, processing, actuating and communicating functions, many applications are moving towards being fully automated. Advancements in fast computing to provide support in the timely processing of sensed information, which was rather difficult only a decade ago,  have become an important factor for the optimisation and learning processes of sensed information. Finally, decision-making under various conditions and circumstances which can be rather complex due to uncertainty, takes place. The major advancements in the creation of intelligent systems consist of three main pillars: advanced sensing and gathering of the necessary, usually very high volume of data, followed by its fast and timely processing by way of advanced machine learning techniques, and decision-making with timely predictions of future events based on trained and optimised highly-accurate systems models. Sensing is not always performed by visible sensors such as cameras, microphones, etc., but also through software embeded within larger systems by way of monitoring data flow, enabling intelligence virtually everywhere where there is build up, collection or even flow of data.

The availability of large data sets and the evolution of deep neural network architectures powered by highly-parallelised computing architectures have enabled researchers and engineers to model real-world systems with unprecedented accuracy. Such data-driven system models or decision-making algorithms have surpassed state-of-the-art performance in many signal-processing domains, thus enabling increases in novel infrastructures where intelligence is embedded, such as intelligent mobility, assistive robotics, secure cyber–physical systems, and healthcare. In the coming decades, we envision a future in which seamless pervasive machine intelligence enriches and empowers human civilizations. However, for machine intelligence to be pervasive, many challenges need to be addressed, such as the transparency of deep learning models, embeded security, the confidentiality of the model parameters, the privacy of the intelligent infrastructure and the data used during inference, affective human–machine interactions, and many more application-level implementation challenges. Therefore, this Special Issue covers topics aligned with intelligence at all levels—Intelligence Everywhere.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Sensing technologies and methods
• Ubiquitous data mining techniques
• Data modelling techniques
• Artificial Intelligence systems and applications
• Deep learning techniques in pervasive intelligence
• Human-understandable and explainable Artificial Intelligence
• Security and privacy protection in pervasive intelligence
• Confidentiality of the intelligent infrastructure parameters
• Privacy preserving inference
• Security of the AI systems
• Multi-agent AI systems
• Cognitive computing
• Human–AI interaction
• Human behaviour and activity analysis 
• Use of 5G technology in pervasive intelligence applications
• Intelligent mobility applications
• Applications of IoTs and AI to: climate control, environment monitoring and preservation, and boarder control.

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kondoz
Dr. Gholamreza Anbarjafari
Dr. Varuna De Silva
Dr. Erhan Ekmekcioglu
Dr. Yogachandran Rahulamathavan
Guest Editors

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