Preface
Over the past decades, digital processing technologies have demonstrated an impressive growth in terms of performance. In this regard, it is noteworthy that the processing capability of computers has increased by a factor of 106, while their unitary (economic) cost has decreased by the same factor. This encapsulates the reason behind large-scale adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT): higher performance at an ever-lower cost. As such, the availability of new information and data has skyrocketed; indeed, every day our society generates more data than that was generated by human beings in a five-century time frame since Gutenberg’s (mid-1400s) invention of the printing process. The consequence of this rapid and growing ...
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