Intro
Preface
Organization
Contents
About the Editors
Human-Centred Intelligent Systems
Leveraging Open Innovation Practices Through a Novel ICT Platform
1 Introduction
2 ICT-Based Open Innovation Platforms
3 The Proposed Solution
3.1 Argumentation-Based Collaboration
3.2 Discourse Analysis
3.3 Position Summarization
4 Preliminary Evaluation
5 Conclusions
References
Advanced Analytics for Smart Farming in a Big Data Architecture Secured by Blockchain and pBFT
1 Introduction
2 Blockchain from Data Processing Perspective

2.1 Blockchain Data Structure and Transactions
2.2 Private and Public Blockchain
2.3 Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
3 Smart Farming and Smart City Data Analytics
3.1 Business Analysis for Smart Farming
4 Smart Systems Oriented Big Data Architecture (SSOBDA)
5 Architectural Requirements to Combine Big Data Architecture with Blockchain
5.1 Theoretical Physical Architecture
5.2 Deployed Physical Architecture
5.3 Functional Architecture
6 Conclusion and Perspective
References

Ultrasound-Coupled Electrocoagulation Based Azo Dye Fading Rate Prediction Using Deep Neural Networks
1 Introduction
2 Materials and Methods
2.1 Electrocoagulation
2.2 Ultrasound
2.3 Ultrasound-Coupled with Electrocoagulation
3 Data Analytics
3.1 Data Set Overview
3.2 Data Set Descriptive Statistics
3.3 Pearson Correlation
3.4 Deep Neural Network
4 Conclusion
References
Digital Strategy and Architecture for Human-Centered Intelligent Systems
1 Introduction
2 Smart Digitalization
3 Human-Centered Intelligent Systems
4 Digital Strategy

5 Intelligent Service Architecture
6 Conclusion
References
Smart Energy Management System: Methodology for Open-Pit Mine Power Grid Monitoring Applications
1 Introduction
2 Related Works
2.1 The Design of an Internet of Things-Based Energy Monitoring System
2.2 The Role of Strategic Energy Management in the Environment of Industry 4.0
3 Methodology and Metrics for Measuring Energy Efficiency
3.1 ISO 50001: Energy Management System
3.2 Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA)
3.3 Adoption of a Standard Operating Procedure for the Energy Management System

3.4 Metrics for Measuring Energy Efficiency
4 Material and Proposed Solution
4.1 System Structure
4.2 Sepam S40
4.3 Application
5 Results and Discussions
6 Conclusion and Perspectives
References
Intelligent Transport Systems
Communication Trends, Research Challenges in Autonomous Driving and Different Paradigms of Object Detection
1 Introduction
2 Connected Autonomous Vehicle Architecture
2.1 Computing Technologies
2.2 AI and Deep Learning Application in Autonomous Vehicle
3 Object Detection in Autonomous Environment