Computer network management and control previously involved mainly purely technical tasks of network equipment maintenance, with the goal of ensuring their proper operation and further development.

Due to the current emergence of computer networks and the development of a steadily growing number of applications able to operate on a network (and more generally on the Internet), the management and control of a computer network can no longer do without artificial intelligence throughout its stages.

This is what our introductory book to intelligent management and control of computer networks endeavors to prove. Our aim is to present the use of artificial intelligence in networks through their intelligent control.

The main objective of artificial intelligence is to design systems that are able to replicate human behavior in its reasoning activities. Defining artificial intelligence is nevertheless not a simple task. The extent of the field is such that it is impossible to narrow it down to a specific field of research.

According to the definition given by one of its creators, Marvin Lee Minsky, artificial intelligence is “the construction of computer programs that engage in tasks that are currently more satisfactorily performed by human beings because they require high-level mental processes such as: perceptual learning, memory organization and critical reasoning”.

In computer networks, artificial intelligence applications relate to several domains, such as intelligent radio communications, new communication architectures, cloud computing, network optimization and security.

This book addresses topical issues that are mainly related to intelligent security for computer networks, deployment of security services in software-defined networking (SDN), optimization of networks by means of artificial intelligence techniques and multiple criteria optimization methods for the selection of networks in a heterogeneous environment. The book deals also with the selection of cloud computing services, intelligent computation offloading in the context of mobile cloud computing, smart management of resources in a smart grid-cloud system for better energy efficiency, Internet of vehicles (IoV), relying on its new architectures, artificial intelligence application in cognitive radio networks and finally the contribution of intelligent radio to addressing the road communication needs of autonomous vehicles.

The various subjects dealt with in this book are organized in parts, each of which contains two chapters. This structure is intended to make it easier for the reader to comprehend the contribution of artificial intelligence to each specific field.