Preface

Abstract

Over the last three decades, there have been a number of significant technological developments in intelligent network technologies. The most important step in the development of intelligent networks was the agreement of the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) and Bellcore to work on the advanced intelligent network (AIN) project. Today's ultra-scale intelligent networks (modern clusters, cognitive networks, clouds and mobile clouds, federated clusters and modern wireless technologies) enable the aggregation and transmission of huge amount of data generated by geographically-distributed users. In the Big Data era, such data can be incomplete and the whole process of data analytics is dynamic and complex. The concept of the support the data intensive analytics process by advanced intelligent networks and various scale today’s network technologies makes a positive impact on the development of new efficient data, information and network systems. This issue contains ten research papers reporting the recent results on models, solutions, and techniques from such a wide research area, ranging from conceptual and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications and tools. (…)