Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Applications

The latest generation of artificial intelligence (AI) is based on today’s cutting-edge technologies, including big data processing, cloud computing, machine learning, robotics, service-oriented computing, quantum computing, and Internet of Things (IoT). On one side, AI is supported and improved by these cutting-edge technologies. On the other side, AI is applied in many domains to augment the performance and capacities of many applications. Both the usefulness of AI in these domains and the inherent improvements that have been made in the pursuit of these large-scale technologies has caused an exponential increase in modern AI capabilities. In the following sections, we will present an overview of the papers in this issue that support the development of AI and apply AI to extend and improve performance and capacities in several application domains. These papers include both academic research papers and industrial application papers.