The Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet) is an annual conference focused on electronics technology, communication engineering, wireless communications and computer engineering. Following the success of CECNet 2023 in Macao (China), CECNet 2024 is held face-to-face in Matsue, Japan, from 5 to 8 November 2024. The CECNet conference series has now completed its fourteenth edition, this 2024 conference being the second time as a live conference following three years in online mode due to the global Covid pandemic. Contributions fall into three main categories: 1) Electronics Technology and VLSI, 2) Internet Technology and Signal Processing and 3) Information Communication and Communication Networks. The term Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) dates from the end of the 1970s, prior to the appearance of Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) chips. Ultra Large Scale Integration (ULSI) was coined ten years later, and relates to a design which may contain as many as a million transistors. Giant Large Scale Integration (GLSI) was established in this century about fifteen years ago and uses more than a billion transistors per integrated circuit. There are a couple more acronyms that may also be found in research, including XLSI (eXtreme Large Scale Integration) and SLSI (Super Large Scale Integration) which refer to a similar level as ULSI and GLSI.

The conference included four keynote speakers: Professor Zhongxiang Shen, Yangtze Delta Region Academy of Beijing Institute of Technology (Jiaxing), China (h-index of 62 and about 12,000 citations according to Google Scholar as of October 2024); Professor Qin Zhang, Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology and Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China. Professor Qin Zhang has a long experience in universities all over the world and is an emeritus member of the China Association for Science and Technology; Professor Larbi Talbi, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DCSE), University of Quebec, Canada; and Professor Fusaomi Nagata, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sanyo-Onoda City University, Japan.

All papers were exhaustively reviewed by program committee members and peer-reviewers, taking into account the breadth and depth of the research topics that fall within the scope of CECNet. From 280 submissions, the 74 most promising and FAIA-mainstream-relevant contributions presenting innovative original ideas or results of general significance supported by clear and rigorous reasoning, and compelling new light in evidence as well as method, were included in this book. We would like to thank the keynote speakers and authors for their efforts in preparing a contribution for this leading international conference. Moreover, we are very grateful to all those, especially the program committee members and reviewers, who devoted time to the evaluation of papers. It is a great honor to continue with the publication of these proceedings in the prestigious series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA) from IOS Press, and our particular thanks also go to FAIA series editors for once more supporting this conference. Finally, we hope you enjoy your visit to Matsue (Shimane), which is located between the Shinji and Nakaumi lakes on the coast of Japan, and that you also discover a few treasures, such as Matsue Castle or Kounkaku Palace, and learn a few words of Japanese if this is your first visit to this beautiful city.

Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros

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Department of Electronic, Computer Systems and Automation Engineering, University of Huelva (Spain), Huelva city, Spain