Prof. Zaigham Mahmood is a Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education UK and a Professor at Shijiazhuang Tiedao University in Hebei, China. He also holds positions as a Foreign Professor at the NUST and IIU in Islamabad, Pakistan. He has previously served as a Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Derby, UK, and Professor Extraordinaire at the North West University Potchefstroom, South Africa. Among his many publications are the Springer titles 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, Limitations and 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.