This book constitutes best selected research papers presented at the International Applied Soft Computing and Communication Networks (ACN 2019) held in Trivandrum, Kerala, India during December 18 - 21, 2019. The papers are organized in topical sections on real time and multimedia communications, security and privacy, network management and software-defined networks, Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems, intelligent distributed systems, mobile computing and vehicle communications, surveillance networks and visual intelligence, and emerging topics. The book is a reference for researchers and scientists engaged in various fields of intelligent systems.

This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers from three special tracks: Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks, Intelligent Distributed Computing and, Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics originally presented at the International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA), August 10-13, 2015, Kochi, India.