Since the invention of computers or machines, scientists and researchers are trying very hard to enhance their capabilities to perform various tasks. As a consequence, the capabilities of computers are growing exponentially day by day in terms of diverse working domains, versatile jobs, processing speed, and reduced size. Now, we are in the race to make the computers or machines as intelligent as human beings. Artificial Intelligence (AI) came up as a way of making a computer or computer software think in the similar manner the intelligent humans think. AI is inspired by the study of human brain like how humans think, learn, decide and act while trying to solve a problem. The outcomes of this study are the basis of developing intelligent software and systems or Intelligent Computing (IC). An IC system has the capability of reasoning, learning, problem solving, perception, and linguistic intelligence. The IC systems consist of AI techniques as well as other emerging techniques that make a system intelligent. The use of intelligent computing has been seen in almost every sub-domain of computer science such as networking, software engineering, gaming, natural language processing, computer vision, image processing, data science, robotics, expert systems, and security. Now a days, the use of IC can also be seen for solving various complex problems in diverse domains such as for predicting disease in medical science, predicting land fertility or crop productivity in agriculture science, predicting market growth in economics, weather forecasting and so on. For all these reasons, this book presents the advances in AI techniques, under the umbrella of IC. In this context, the book includes the recent research works have been done in the areas of machine learning, neural networks, deep learning, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, swarm intelligence, fuzzy systems and so on. This book provides theoretical, algorithmic, simulation, and implementation-based recent research advancements related to the Intelligent Computing.

1. The book will discuss most relevant real-life applications and case studies of Network Technologies. 2. The book will provide deeper knowledge regarding emerging research trends and future research directions in Network Technologies. 3. The book will provide theoretical, algorithmic, simulation, and implementation-based research developments in Network Technologies. 4. The book will follow theoretical approach to describe fundamentals of Network Technologies for the beginners as well as practical approach to depict simulation and implementation of real-life applications for intermediate and advanced readers.

1) The book will discuss most relevant real-world applications and case studies of IoT. 2) The book will provide deeper knowledge regarding emerging research trends and future research directions in IoT. 3) The book will provide theoretical, algorithmic, simulation, and implementation-based research developments in IoT. 4) The book will follow theoretical approach to describe applications of IoT for the beginners as well as practical approach to depict simulation and implementation of real-world applications for intermediate and advanced readers.

The opportunistic network is an emerging and recent area of research. To make this research area more adaptable for practical and industrial use, there is a need to further investigate several research challenges in all aspects of opportunistic networks. Therefore, Opportunistic Networks: Fundamentals, Applications and Emerging Trends provides theoretical, algorithmic, simulation, and implementation-based research developments related to fundamentals, applications, and emerging research trends in opportunistic networks. The book follows a theoretical approach to describe fundamentals to beginners and incorporates a practical approach depicting the implementation of real-life applications to intermediate and advanced readers. This book is beneficial for academicians, researchers, developers, and engineers who work in or are interested in the fields related to opportunistic networks, delay tolerant networks, and intermittently connected ad hoc networks. This book also serves as a reference book for graduate and postgraduate courses in computer science, computer engineering, and information technology streams.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing, ANTIC 2022, held in Varanasi, India, during December 22–24, 2022.  The 68 full papers and 11 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 443 submissions. They were organized in two topical sections as follows: Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing.

This volume constitutes the selected papers presented at the First International Conference on Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing, ANTIC 2021, hed in Varanasi, India, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 61 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 593 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on advanced network technologies and intelligent computing. ;