Nowadays, in information systems such as web search engines and databases, diversity is
becoming increasingly essential and getting more and more attention for improving users' …

Emerging applications of IoT (the Internet of Things), such as smart transportation, health,
and energy, are envisioned to greatly enhance the societal infrastructure and quality of life of …

Typically, a real±time system consists of aa controlling system and a controlled system. In an
automated factory, the controlled system is the factory floor with its robots, assembling …

The demand for real-time data services is increasing in many applications including e-
commerce, agile manufacturing, and telecommunications network management. In these …

The paper considers the challenge of maximizing the quality of information collected to meet
decision needs of real-time Internet-of-Things applications. A novel scheduling model is …

The periodic update transaction model has been used to maintain the freshness (or
temporal validity) of real-time data. Period and deadline assignment has been the main …

The Internet of Things heralds a new generation of data-centric applications, where
controllers connect to large numbers of heterogeneous sensing devices. We consider a …

Although the deferrable scheduling algorithm for fixed priority transactions (DS-FP) has
been shown to provide a better performance compared with the More-Less (ML) method …

A real-time object is one whose state may become invalid with the passage of time. A
temporal validity interval is associated with the object state, and the real-time object is …

Periodic update transaction model has been used to maintain freshness (or temporal
validity) of real-time data. Period and deadline assignment has been the main focus in the …