The production, productivity and safety of underground coal mines are greatly affected by
the environmental conditions of the mines. Hence, continuous monitoring of the complex …

The growing number of services that can meet the users' functional requirements, inspired
many researchers to provide some approaches to rank and select the best possible services …

In recent years, cloud manufacturing (CMfg) has been developed as an intelligent
manufacturing system, in which geographically distributed manufacturing resources are …

The microservices architectural style is gaining more and more momentum for the
development of applications as suites of small, autonomous, and conversational services …

The diffusion of small low cost sensors has opened new opportunities for the design of real-
time monitoring systems in several application fields. Internet of Things (IoT) is a new branch …

The Internet of Things (IoT) has promised a future where everything gets connected.
Unfortunately, building a single global ecosystem of Things that communicate with each …

Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) is a new paradigm that has been known as a promising
integrated technology in which distributed resources of manufacturing are integrated and …

In the early 2000s, service-oriented architectures (SOA) emerged as a paradigm for
distributed computing, e-business processing, and enterprise integration. Rapidly, SOA and …

With the wide-adoption of the Internet of Things, heterogeneous smart things, serving as
sensor nodes, require to work in a collective fashion for achieving complex applications. To …

Web Service registries have progressively evolved to social networks-like software
repositories. Users cooperate to produce an ever-growing, rich source of Web APIs upon …