Distributed Applications and Services for Future Internet

Dear Colleagues,

Distributed applications and services are predicted to enable future internet technologies and applications. Distributed systems have existed and evolved for many years; with the expansion of the Internet to edge devices, and IoT constantly generating a huge amount of data which require machine learning applications, the distribution of computation is expected to evolve and continue to expand. With Cloud computing entering its maturity stage, providing scalable service and resource provision, and with Fog and Edge computing still under development and able to support closer to edge computational power; distributed applications and services are going to drive the future internet vision of smart cities, digital healthcare and Industry 4.0, to name a few. Enormous efforts have been made to support the generation and analysis of big data for healthcare or industrial applications; machine learning- and AI-driven solutions are set to deliver real time intelligent applications. The use of deep neural networks in computer vision, language and speech processing has started challenging existing techniques, platforms and infrastructure when it comes to providing intelligent solutions. In this Special Issue, we focus on distributed applications and services that enable intelligent applications in the future Internet of Things and beyond. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together research work focusing on advancing distributed applications and underpinning concepts, tools and frameworks in support of the realization of future intelligent internet applications.

Prof. Dr. Ella Pereira
Dr. Rubem Pereira
Prof. Dr. Geyong Min
Guest Editors

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