Yaniv Altshuler, a leading expert in Artificial Intelligence, is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a dynamic entrepreneur. Over the past decade he has used his expertise to advise leading financial institutes and government agencies worldwide. Yaniv is the author of 3 books on the topic of AI and has published over 80 scientific papers and filed 18 patents. His research has been covered by Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Spectrum and others.

• Preface. Recent Developments in the Theory and Applicability of Swarm Search. Modeling and Prediction of Ride Sharing Utilization Dynamics. The Dynamics of Autonomous Drone Swarms in Surveillance: Exploring Efficiency, Feasibility, and Complexity. Defending Large-Scale Critical Infrastructures using a Swarm of Drones. Socioeconomic Patterns of Twitter Activity. From Microbes to Methane: AI-Based Predictive Modeling of Feed Additive Efficacy in Dairy Cows.

Yaniv Altshuler, a leading expert in Artificial Intelligence, is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a dynamic entrepreneur. Over the past decade he has used his expertise to advise leading financial institutes and government agencies worldwide. Yaniv is the author of 3 books on the topic of AI and has published over 80 scientific papers and filed 18 patents. His research has been covered by Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Spectrum and others.

• Preface. Recent Developments in the Theory and Applicability of Swarm Search. Modeling and Prediction of Ride Sharing Utilization Dynamics. The Dynamics of Autonomous Drone Swarms in Surveillance: Exploring Efficiency, Feasibility, and Complexity. Defending Large-Scale Critical Infrastructures using a Swarm of Drones. Socioeconomic Patterns of Twitter Activity. From Microbes to Methane: AI-Based Predictive Modeling of Feed Additive Efficacy in Dairy Cows.

Yaniv Altshuler, a leading expert in Artificial Intelligence, is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a dynamic entrepreneur. Over the past decade he has used his expertise to advise leading financial institutes and government agencies worldwide. Yaniv is the author of 3 books on the topic of AI and has published over 80 scientific papers and filed 18 patents. His research has been covered by Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Spectrum and others.

• Preface. Recent Developments in the Theory and Applicability of Swarm Search. Modeling and Prediction of Ride Sharing Utilization Dynamics. The Dynamics of Autonomous Drone Swarms in Surveillance: Exploring Efficiency, Feasibility, and Complexity. Defending Large-Scale Critical Infrastructures using a Swarm of Drones. Socioeconomic Patterns of Twitter Activity. From Microbes to Methane: AI-Based Predictive Modeling of Feed Additive Efficacy in Dairy Cows.