Series Editorial: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for Communications

Future networks, empowered with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities, are expected to become cognitive, autonomously thinking, learning, remembering and adapting to ever changing conditions. Knowledge acquisition and intelligent decision making are enabled, effectively supporting next generation networks in achieving their end-to-end goals and objectives in a highly dynamic and heterogeneous environment of increasing complexity. AI/ML and data science are generally considered key technologies for communications; still, many research challenges need to be adequately addressed, before they can evolve to their full potential.