Proceedings of the "10th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS2017)"

Following the previous nine successful editions of IDCS - IDCS 2008 in Khulna, Bangladesh, IDCS 2009 in Jeju Island, Korea, IDCS 2010 and IDCS 2011 in Melbourne, Australia, IDCS 2012 in Wu Yi Shan, China, IDCS 2013 in Hangzhou, China, IDCS 2014 in Calabria, Italy, IDCS 2015 in Windsor, UK, IDCS 2016 in Wuhan, China--IDCS 2017 was the tenth in the series to promote research in diverse fields related to the Internet and distributed computing systems. "Health, Collaboration, Innovation, and Sustainability" are the main themes of our era. The Internet, including widespread use of mobile and wireless devices, has grown as a ubiquitous infrastructure to support the fast development of diversified services. The advents of the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, and big data are creating a new technology revolution, i.e., the next generation of the Internet or Industry 4.0. The integration of the digital world with the physical environment makes our world more intelligent and efficient. Large-scale networked intelligent systems require greater cooperation and interoperation of heterogeneous IoT platforms. IDCS 2017 received papers on emerging models, paradigms, technologies, and novel applications related to Internet-based distributed systems, including Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, next-generation collaborative systems, extreme-scale networked systems, and cloud-based big data systems. The audience included researchers and industry practitioners who were interested in different aspects of the Internet and distributed systems, with a particular focus on practical experiences with the design and implementation of related technologies as well as their theoretical perspectives. IDCS 2017 received a large number of submissions from which 16 regular papers were accepted after a careful review and selection process. This year's conference also featured four invited talks: (1) "Experimental and CFD Studies to Optimize the Turbine System Applied to Wind, Hydro, and Marine Renewable Energy" by Professor Young-Ho Lee, Korea Maritime and Ocean University (KMOU), South Korea; (2) "Measurement-Oriented Machine Learning for Advanced Sensing Technologies" by Professor Takashi Washio, Osaka University, Japan; (3) "Distributed Generation Integration for Smart Grids" by Professor Hemanshu Pota, University of New South Wales, Australia; and (4) "Big Data -- Big Application" by Professor Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. IDCS 2017 was held in the wonderful Mana Island Resort and Spa (Fiji Islands), in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. The conference organization was supported by the University of Fiji and Deakin University (Australia). The successful organization of IDCS 2017 was possible thanks to the dedication and hard work of a number of individuals. Specifically, we would like to thank Jashnil Kumar (Web Coordinator) for his commendable work with the conference organization. We also express our gratitude to the general chairs, Shawkat Ali, University of Fiji, Fiji, and Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia, and the conference chairs (Wenfeng Li, Rasib Khan, Giancarlo Fortino, Giuseppe Di Fatta, Mukaddim Pathan) for their support of the conference.