SmartData empowers personal data by wrapping it in a cloak of intelligence such that it now
becomes the individual's virtual proxy in cyberspace. No longer will personal data be shared or
stored in the cloud as merely data encrypted or otherwise it will now be stored and shared as
a constituent of the binary string specifying the entire SmartData agent. This agent
proactively builds-in privacy security and user preferences right from the outset not as an
afterthought. SmartData: Privacy Meets Evolutionary Robotics includes the advances made in the
technology of simulating virtual worlds together with the ideas emerging from fields of
evolutionary robotics and embodied cognition within a framework of dynamical systems as an
approach toward this ultimate goal. The book brings together top researchers in the field and
addresses current personal data privacy challenges in the online-world.
