Resource-constrained IoT devices, such as sensors and actuators, have become ubiquitous
in recent years. This has led to the generation of large quantities of data in real-time, which …

The advancements of sensing technologies, including remote sensing, in situ sensing,
social sensing, and health sensing, have tremendously improved our capability to observe …

Big Data, the Internet of Things, and robotic and augmented realities are just some of the
technologies that belong to Industry 4.0. These technologies improve working conditions …

In software engineering, knowledge about recurrent problems, along with blueprints of
associated solutions for diverse design contexts, are often captured in so-called design …

Measuring the vulnerability of communities in complex networks has become an important
topic in the research of complex systems. Numerous existing vulnerability measures have …

Nowadays, surveillance systems are becoming popular for safety and security purposes in
many sectors like government organizations, private institutes, hospitals, schools, residential …

The Internet of Things continuously generates avalanches of raw sensor data to be
transferred to the Cloud for processing and storage. Due to network latency and limited …

Abstract Design patterns are key in software engineering, for they capture the knowledge of
recurrent problems and associated solutions in specific design contexts. Emerging …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic literature review on the
technological aspects of smart cities and to give insights about current trends, sources of …

We focus on the online multi-object k-coverage problem (OMOkC), where mobile robots are
required to sense a mobile target from k diverse points of view, coordinating themselves in a …