This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-competition proceedings of the AI Ops Competition on Large-Scale Disk Failure Prediction, conducted between February 7th and May 15, 2020 on the Alibaba Cloud Tianchi Platform. A dedicated workshop, featuring the best performing teams of the competition, was held at the 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2020, in Singapore, in April 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was hosted online. This book includes 13 selected contributions: an introduction to dataset, selected approaches of the competing teams and the competition summary, describing the competition task, practical challenges, evaluation metrics, etc.

Data centers use large numbers of hard drives as data storage devices and it is an increasing challenge to maintain the reliability of the storage system as the number of the hard drives increases exponentially. Manual monitoring does not seem to be efficient for large scale storage systems. Typically, the distributions of healthy hard drives and failed hard drives are highly imbalance. In addition, the size of the training data is large for large scale storage systems. The existence of such challenges makes the hard drive failure prediction problem interesting. In this thesis, several classification models are applied to the hard drive S.M.A.R.T. data from 34,970 hard drives for failure prediction, and the results are compared. Based on the analysis, XGBoost provides the best overall prediction result and it is able to process the data efficiently.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Big Data and Security, ICBDS 2020, held in Singapore, Singapore, in December 2020. The 44 revised full papers and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected out of 153 submissions. The papers included in this book are organized according to the topical sections on cybersecurity and privacy, big data, blockchain and internet of things, and artificial intelligence/ machine learning security.

The book presents the proceedings of the 6th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2021), which took place online on October 6, 2021. The conference covered management of manufacturing systems with support for Industry 4.0, logistics and intelligent manufacturing systems and applications, cooperation management and its effective applications. Topics include RFID applications, economic impacts in logistics, ICT support for Industry 4.0, industrial and smart logistics, intelligent manufacturing systems and applications, and much more.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of 10 workshops held at the 35th International ISC High Performance 2020 Conference, in Frankfurt, Germany, in June 2020: First Workshop on Compiler-assisted Correctness Checking and Performance Optimization for HPC (C3PO); First International Workshop on the Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Analysis (CFDML); HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop (HPC-IODC); First Workshop \Machine Learning on HPC Systems" (MLHPCS); First International Workshop on Monitoring and Data Analytics (MODA); 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC). The 25 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected. They cover all aspects of research, development, and application of large-scale, high performance experimental and commercial systems. Topics include high-performance computing (HPC), computer architecture and hardware, programming models, system software, performance analysis and modeling, compiler analysis and optimization techniques, software sustainability, scientific applications, deep learning.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication, SmartCom 2021, which took place in New York City, USA, during December 29–31, 2021.* The 44 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 165 submissions. The scope of SmartCom 2021 was broad, from smart data to smart communications, from smart cloud computing to smart security. The conference gathered all high-quality research/industrial papers related to smart computing and communications and aimed at proposing a reference guideline for further research. * Conference was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.