Special Issue on "hybrid intelligence for growing internet and its applications"

The 2014 Special Issue of Future Generation Computer Systems is based on 'Hybrid intelligence for growing Internet and its applications'. The first paper highlights the growing needs of healthcare service provision for the elderly under a matured cloud-based environment. It particularly considers the issue in geriatric healthcare in non-adherence to medication regimens especially among those elderly patients who live alone. Another paper discusses the issues of scalable computing and storage capability in a cloud-empowered Internet environment. Integrating QoS awareness towards better requirement of user application development and interference reduction of virtual machine in a cloud-based system is particularly concentrated. Another paper places the emphasis on mining and annotating a semantic relation between data entities on the Internet with temporal, concise, and structured information.