Smart Cities are advancing towards an instrumented, integrated, and intelligent living space,
where Internet of Things (IoT), mobile technologies and next generation networks are …

The Internet of Things is the natural continuity of the Ambient Intelligence where smart and
ambient environments are built mainly by integrating a large number of interconnected smart …

This work presents a Web Service Middleware infrastructure for Ambient Intelligence
environments, named aWESoME. aWESoME is a vital part of the Smart IHU project, a large …

This article presents a comparative review of systems performing service composition in
Ambient Intelligence Environments. Such environments should comply to ubiquitous or …

The development of pervasive computing has put the light on a challenging problem: how to
dynamically compose services in heterogeneous and highly changing environments? We …

Abstract Service composition provides value-adding services through composing basic Web
services, which may be provided by various organizations. Cloud computing presents an …

The recent evolution of mobile smart devices and their convergence with pervasive
computing and software as a service raises new challenges. Developers of applications …

A service-based system may require adaptation for several reasons, such as service
evolution (eg, a new version may be available), hardware volatility (eg, network quality …

Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have been applied extensively in many
areas of genetics and genomics research. A fundamental problem when comes to analyzing …

Data integration as required in a variety of applications like data warehousing, information
system integration etc. makes great demands regarding features to deal with overlapping …