Intelligent Network Management and Control

1Intelligent Security of Computer Networks

Abderrazaq SEMMOUD and Badr BENMAMMAR

Abou Bekr Belkaid University, Tlemcen, Algeria

1.1. Introduction

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have rapidly progressed in recent years, facilitating the development of a broad range of applications. For example, AI is an essential component of widely used technologies such as automatic speech recognition, machine translation, spam filters and facial recognition. Promising technologies are currently the object of research or small-scale pilot projects, among which it is worth mentioning self-driving cars, digital assistants and drones activated by AI. Looking further into the future, advanced AI may reduce the need for human labor and improve governance quality.

A wide variety of tasks are automated using AI. Games, car driving and image classification are some of the tasks commonly studied by AI researchers. A broad set of tasks can be transformed by AI. At the very least, every task requiring human intelligence is a potential target for AI innovation. While the field of AI dates back to 1950, several years of rapid progress and growth have recently led to higher reliability. Sudden performance gains have been accomplished by researchers in a number of fields. Figure 1.1 illustrates this trend in the case of image recognition, where over the past few years AI systems have increased their performance in terms of classification accuracy from about 70% to nearly perfect classification ...