We are delighted to introduce the proceedings of the 13th edition of the 2020 European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MOBIMEDIA). This conference has brought researchers, developers and practitioners around the world who are leveraging and developing multimedia coding, mobile communications and networking fields. Developing and leveraging multimedia coding, mobile communications and networking fields requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where multimedia, networking and physical layer issues are addressed jointly. Basic theories, key technologies and Artificial Intelligence for next-generations wireless communications，intelligent technologies for subspace learning and clustering of high-dimensional data, security and safety, communication networks and coding analysis, electromagnetic and media access control, D2D and IoT, multimedia platform and analysis, new energy and smart city, vision and images analysis, systems and applications, case studies and prediction and educational application are research challenges that need to be carefully examined when designing new mobile media architectures. We also need to put a great effort in designing applications that take into account the way the user perceives the overall quality of the provided service. Within this scope, the MOBIMEDIA 2020 was intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers from industry and academia to study new technologies, applications and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications.

For the past couple of years, network automation techniques that include software-defined networking (SDN) and dynamic resource allocation schemes have been the subject of a significant research and development effort. Likewise, network functions virtualization (NFV) and the foreseeable usage of a set of artificial intelligence techniques to facilitate the processing of customers’ requirements and the subsequent design, delivery, and operation of the corresponding services are very likely to dramatically distort the conception and the management of networking infrastructures. Some of these techniques are being specified within standards developing organizations while others remain perceived as a “buzz” without any concrete deployment plans disclosed by service providers. An in-depth understanding and analysis of these approaches should be conducted to help internet players in making appropriate design choices that would meet their requirements as well as their customers. This is an important area of research as these new developments and approaches will inevitably reshape the internet and the future of technology. Design Innovation and Network Architecture for the Future Internet sheds light on the foreseeable yet dramatic evolution of internet design principles and offers a comprehensive overview on the recent advances in networking techniques that are likely to shape the future internet. The chapters provide a rigorous in-depth analysis of the promises, pitfalls, and other challenges raised by these initiatives, while avoiding any speculation on their expected outcomes and technical benefits. This book covers essential topics such as content delivery networks, network functions virtualization, security, cloud computing, automation, and more. This book will be useful for network engineers, software designers, computer networking professionals, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students looking for a comprehensive research book on the latest advancements in internet design principles and networking techniques.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, Mobimedia 2021, held in July 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 66 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 166 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: Internet of Things and Wireless Communications Communication; Strategy Optimization and Task Scheduling Oral Presentations; Privacy Computing Technology; Cyberspace Security and Access control; Neural Networks and Feature Learning Task Classification and Prediction; Object Recognition and Detection.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, MobiMedia 2022, held in July 22-24, 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 29 full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: Internet of Things and Wireless Communications Communication Strategy Optimization; Cyberspace Security on Cryptography, Privacy Protection, Data Sharing, Access Control and Task Prediction; Neural Networks and Feature Learning; and Object Recognition and Detection.

Computers and automation have revolutionized the lives of most people in the last two decades, and terminology such as algorithms, big data and artificial intelligence have become part of our everyday discourse. This book presents the proceedings of CAIBDA 2023, the 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Algorithms, held from 16 - 18 June 2023 as a hybrid conference in Zhengzhou, China. The conference provided a platform for some 200 participants to discuss the theoretical and computational aspects of research in artificial intelligence, big data and algorithms, reviewing the present status and future perspectives of the field. A total of 362 submissions were received for the conference, of which 148 were accepted following a thorough double-blind peer review. Topics covered at the conference included artificial intelligence tools and applications; intelligent estimation and classification; representation formats for multimedia big data; high-performance computing; and mathematical and computer modeling, among others. The book provides a comprehensive overview of this fascinating field, exploring future scenarios and highlighting areas where new ideas have emerged over recent years. It will be of interest to all those whose work involves artificial intelligence, big data and algorithms.

The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) has become a hot topic in academic research. It employs the theory of social networks into the different levels of the Internet of Things (IoTs) and has brought new possibilities for the development of IoTs. Essentially, the SIoT is a subset of IoTs. It uses intelligent hardware and humans as the node, a social network as the organization type, the social relationship between things, things and humans, and between humans, formatting research methods and models with social network characteristics to realize the connection, service, and application of the IoTs. Moreover, SIoT is a form of realization of technology, architecture, and application of the IoTs using social network research methods. It further promotes the integration between real-world and virtual cyberspace, contributes the realization of the IoTs, expands the research scope of the social networking, and provides a new solution for the specific problems of the IoTs. Consequently, there is a tremendous need for researchers to have a comprehensive knowledge of the advances in SIoT. This special issue is soliciting scientific research papers that can present a snapshot of the latest research status of SIoT.