Owing to continuous advances in the computational power of handheld devices like smartphones and tablet computers, it has become possible to perform Big Data operations including modern data mining processes onboard these small devices. A decade of research has proved the feasibility of what has been termed as Mobile Data Mining, with a focus on one mobile device running data mining processes. However, it is not before 2010 until the authors of this book initiated the Pocket Data Mining (PDM) project exploiting the seamless communication among handheld devices performing data analysis tasks that were infeasible until recently. PDM is the process of collaboratively extracting knowledge from distributed data streams in a mobile computing environment. This book provides the reader with an in-depth treatment on this emerging area of research. Details of techniques used and thorough experimental studies are given. More importantly and exclusive to this book, the authors provide detailed practical guide on the deployment of PDM in the mobile environment. An important extension to the basic implementation of PDM dealing with concept drift is also reported. In the era of Big Data, potential applications of paramount importance offered by PDM in a variety of domains including security, business and telemedicine are discussed.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 42nd SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, AI 2022, which was held in Cambridge, UK, in December 2022.The 20 full papers and 11 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The volume includes technical papers presenting new and innovative developments in the field as well as application papers presenting innovative applications of AI techniques in a number of subject domains. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: best technical paper; best application paper; AI for health and medicine; AI for scientific discovery and decision making; AI for industrial applications; feasibility studies of applied AI; and short papers.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, IDCS 2015, held in Windsor, UK, in September 2015. The 19 revised full and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The selected contributions covered cutting-edge aspects of Cloud Computing and Internet of Things, sensor networks, parallel and distributed computing, advanced networking, smart cities and smart buildings, Big Data and social networks.