Smart contract, a term which was originally coined to refer to the automation of legal
contracts in general, has recently seen much interest due to the advent of blockchain …

Software systems dealing with distributed applications in changing environments normally
require human supervision to continue operation in all conditions. These (re-) configuring …

Video cameras are pervasively deployed for security and smart city scenarios, with millions
of them in large cities worldwide. Achieving the potential of these cameras requires …

The Internet has become essential to all aspects of modern life, and thus the consequences
of network disruption have become increasingly severe. It is widely recognised that the …

In the recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) services has been increasingly applied to
promote the quality of the human life and this trend is predicted to stretch for into future. With …

In the last two decades, both researchers and vendors have built advisory tools to assist
database administrators (DBAs) in various aspects of system tuning and physical design …

It has become possible to link anything and everything to the Internet in recent decades due
to the expanding Internet of Things (IoT). As a result, our usage of technology has changed a …

Self-adaptation is a first class concern for cloud applications, which should be able to
withstand diverse runtime changes. Variations are simultaneously happening both at the …

Large-scale software engineering requires communication and collaboration to successfully
build and ship products. We conducted a survey with Microsoft engineers on inter-team …

Bluetooth is an open specification for short-range wireless communication and networking,
mainly intended to be a cable replacement between portable and/or fixed electronic devices …