Dear Colleagues,

Companies and the industrial sector are adapting their products, services, processes, and business models to the new digital era. We have already crossed the door step of the 4th Industrial Revolution and so-called Industry 4.0 is transforming our economy and society by satisfying customers’ needs in a timely fashion. Advertising on the internet is also now more focused on our habits and needs, targeting the products we are demanding. Additionally, IoT technologies have joined our daily lives, enabling smart homes and e-health solutions for ageing in place- and ambient-assisted living.  Even, the cities are using state-of-the-art technologies for smart and crowdsourced pollution monitors, processing open data, and engaging citizens in decision making. The new smart paradigms have something in common: they are built on top of a multitude of available data that need to be processed. This is where traditional machine learning and state-of-the-art deep learning techniques are playing a key role in finding hidden relations, and are making sense of the huge volumes of data collected by companies, organizations. and governments. 

This Special Issue encourages authors, from academia and industry, to submit new research results about technological innovations and novel applications for smart-anything based on machine and/or deep learning. The Special Issue topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Smart cities;
• Smart factories;
• Smart farming; 
• Ambient-assisted living;
• Ageing in place;
• Big data;
• Deep learning;
• Internet of Things;
• Security;
• Privacy.

Dr. Joaquín Torres-Sospedra
Dr. Sergio Trilles Oliver
Guest Editors

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