The capacity to gather and timely deliver to the service level any relevant information that
can characterize the service-provisioning environment, such as computing …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) comprises heterogeneous and interconnected objects. It
tries to provide information anytime, anywhere and for anything. The IoT incorporates a …

Purpose–This survey aims to study and analyze current techniques and methods for context‐
aware web service systems, to discuss future trends and propose further steps on making …

In this paper, we discuss the application of concept of data quality to big data by highlighting
how much complex is to define it in a general way. Already data quality is a …

Clustering is currently receiving great attention due to the emergence of Vehicular Ad-Hoc
Network (VANET) technology. It is a challenging issue due to the high mobility of vehicles …

Limitations of sensors and the situation of a specific measurement can affect the quality of
context information that is implicitly collected in pervasive environments. The lack of …

In this paper, we propose a semantic-aware blocking framework for entity resolution (ER).
The proposed framework is built using locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) techniques, which …

There has been a rapid increase in the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the last
few years, providing a wide range of services such as camera feeds, light controls, and door …

In most operating systems, the handling of interrupts is typically performed within the
address space of the kernel. Moreover, interrupt handlers are invoked asynchronously …

Finger vein biometric systems have shown a vulnerability to presentation attacks (or direct
attack or spoof attack). The presentation attacks have raised crucial security issues for finger …