This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Internet
and Distributed Computing Systems IDCS 2015 held in Windsor UK in September 2015. The 19
revised full and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42
submissions. The selected contributions covered cutting-edge aspects of Cloud Computing and
Internet of Things sensor networks parallel and distributed computing advanced networking
smart cities and smart buildings Big Data and social networks.
