To meet the expectations raised by the terms Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet and Internet of Things, real innovations are necessary, which can be brought about by information processing systems working autonomously. Owing to their growing complexity and their embedding in ever-changing environments, their design becomes increasingly critical. Thus, the many topics addressed in this book range from data integration on hardware level to methods for security and safety of data and to stochastic methods, data interferences as well as machine learning and search in decentralised systems. Their validity is proven by extensive simulation results. Also, applications for methods from deep learning and neurocomputing are presented. The sustainable management of energy systems using intelligent methods of self-organisation and learning is dealt with in the second major part of this book. As in these particular settings, the assessment of network vulnerabilities plays a crucial role, respective ...
