Intelligent systems for future generation communications

Abstract

The ever-growing Future Generation Communications (FGC) provides an Intelligent and Ubiquitous Communication and Network Technology for Tomorrow. That is, the FGC has emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm that includes ubiquitous, grid, and peer-to-peer computing to provide computing and communication services at any time and anywhere. In order to realize the advantages of such services, it is important that intelligent systems be suitable for FGC. This special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high quality research in any new FGC idea, method, theory, technique, and research. This special issue brings together seven research papers providing a snapshot of the current state of the art of intelligent systems for FGC. Many high-quality papers were received and only seven papers were finally selected after a rigorous review process by international experts to be published in this issue. In “Design and Implementation of a Framework for Building Distributed Smart Object Systems”, Fahim Kawsar, et al. propose a document-oriented framework to support development of human-centered intelligent systems for pervasive environment. In the framework, applications’ requirements and component services are objectified by structured documents and a runtime infrastructure provides the pair-wise