The unabated flurry of research activities to augment various mobile devices by leveraging
heterogeneous cloud resources has created a new research domain called Mobile Cloud …

Abstract Initial developments in Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) led to the development
of Web Services using the SOAP protocol and an extensive set of tools and methods for …

Interoperability is a major concern for the software engineering field, given the increasing
need to compose components dynamically and seamlessly. This dynamic composition is …

Abstract Models at runtime can be defined as abstract representations of a system, including
its structure and behaviour, which exist in tandem with the given system during the actual …

Interoperability remains a significant burden to the developers of Internet of Things systems.
This is because resources and APIs are dynamically composed; they are highly …

The Internet of Things is characterised by extreme heterogeneity of communication protocols
and data formats; hence ensuring diverse devices can interoperate with one another …

Software systems are increasingly composed of independently-developed components,
which are often systems by their own. This composition is possible only if the components …

Security is concerned with the protection of assets from intentional harm. Secure systems
provide capabilities that enable such protection to satisfy some security requirements. In a …

With the Virtual State Layer (VSL), an abstraction for software-based orchestration of smart
spaces is presented. The aim of the VSL is to ease the programming of orchestration …

Given the highly dynamic and extremely heterogeneous software systems composing the
Future Internet, automatically achieving interoperability between software components …