Professor Zaigham Mahmood is a Technology Consultant at Debesis Education, UK, and a Professor at the Shijiazhuang Tiedao University in Hebei, China. He also holds positions as Foreign Professor at NUST and IIU in Islamabad, Pakistan. He previously served as a Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Derby, UK, and Professor Extraordinaire at the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. His many publications include the Springer titles Software Engineering in the Era of Cloud Computing; The Internet of Things in the Industrial Sector; Security, Privacy and Trust in the IoT Environment; Guide to Ambient Intelligence in the IoT Environment; Fog Computing; Smart Cities; Connected Environments for the Internet of Things; Software Project Management for Distributed Computing; Requirements Engineering for Service and Cloud Computing; Connectivity Frameworks for Smart Devices; Data Science and Big Data Computing; Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitationsand R&D Solutions; Continued Rise of the Cloud; Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches; Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm; and Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures.