This book presents the proceedings of the fifth International Symposium on Modelling and Implementation of Complex Systems (MISC 2018). The event was held in Laghouat, Algeria, on December 16-18, 2018. The 25 papers gathered here have been selected from 109 submissions using a strict peer-review process, and address a range of topics concerning the theory and applications of networking and distributed computing, including: cloud computing and the IoT, metaheuristics and optimization, computational intelligence, software engineering and formal methods. .eText ISBN: 9783030054816
