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The following topics are dealt with: WSN; MANET; energy efficient networking; software defined networking; WMN; network algorithms; protocols; mobile networks; wireless networks; cloud computing; grid computing; Internet applications; Web applications; network security; network privacy; Big Data; data mining; intelligent computing; parallel computing; next generation networks; distributed systems; parallel systems; multimedia applications; data engineering; mobile computing; heterogeneous networking; virtual reality; WSAN; trustworthiness; resource management; wireless communication systems; agent technology; smart environments; and intelligent sensors.