[Excerpt] Distributed Systems current face new challenges of adapting and reusing research results in the area of Intelligent Systems. Intelligent Systems use methods and technology derived from Knowledge‐based and Computational Intelligence. Distributed Computing develops methods and technology to build systems composed of collaborating components. The fast growth of both Big Data and Data Mining have created interesting challenges for classical methods, algorithms, and frameworks from Distributed Computing, which makes especially interesting analysis and research into new trends and innovations that have recently appeared in this area.
This special issue welcomed submissions of original papers introducing research results on all the aspects covering the roles of Knowledge and Intelligence in Distributed Systems, ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications. This issue presents a expanded versions of these papers from the best of those presented at the 10th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2016), which was held in Paris (France). [...]As the special issue editors, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the various authors for their papers and the reviewers fortheir work. We are also grateful to Jon Hall, Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley journal Expert Systems. We would like to particularly thankthe IDC'16 programme committee members for their hard work and dedication. To conclude, we would like to acknowledge the financialsupport received from Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) projects: EphemeCH (TIN2014-56494-C4-{1… 4}-P)and DeepBio (TIN2017-85727-C4-{1… 4}-P), both under the European Regional Development Fund FEDER and the support by COMPETE:POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT Fundao para a Cincia e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013
