There’s no denying that CI is on its way to change the world as we know it. There are various social domains such as Environment, Education, Information Security, Healthcare, Crisis Response, Human Behavior and Bias, Disaster Management, Industrial management and most recently Epidemics and Outbreaks are highly in need of Intelligent Technologies to address their issues. This book presents the views on how Computational Intelligent and ICT technologies can be applied to ease or solve social problems by sharing examples of research results from studies of social anxiety, environmental issues, mobility of the disabled, and problems in social safety. As with most changes in life, there will be positive and negative impacts on society as artificial intelligence continues to transform the world, we live in. With the idea of future scope in research, the book focuses on the challenges that might be faced (and we should be thinking about how to address them now) as well as several of the positive impacts artificial intelligence will have on society.

The Digital Twin Paradigm for Smarter Systems and Environments: The Industry Use Cases, Volume 117, the latest volume in the Advances in Computers series, presents detailed coverage of new advancements in computer hardware, software, theory, design and applications. Chapters vividly illustrate how the emerging discipline of digital twin is strategically contributing to various digital transformation initiatives. Specific chapters cover Demystifying the Digital Twin Paradigm, Digital Twin Technology for "Smarter Manufacturing", The Fog Computing/ Edge Computing to leverage Digital Twin, The industry use cases for the Digital Twin idea, Enabling Digital Twin at the Edge, The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), and much more.