Big Data has emerged in the past few years as a new paradigm providing abundant data
and opportunities to improve and/or enable research and decision-support applications with …

Among the panoply of applications enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT), smart and
connected health care is a particularly important one. Networked sensors, either worn on the …

Face recognition applications for airport security and surveillance can benefit from the
collaborative coupling of mobile and cloud computing as they become widely available …

Future smart classrooms that we envision will significantly enhance learning experience and
seamless communication among students and teachers using real-time sensing and …

The following decade will witness a surge in remote health-monitoring systems that are
based on body-worn monitoring devices. These Medical Cyber Physical Systems (MCPS) …

In past few years, advancement in mobile applications and their integration with Cloud
computing services has introduced a new computing paradigm known as Mobile Cloud …

Smart city sensing calls for crowdsensing via mobile devices that are equipped with various
built-in sensors. As incentivizing users to participate in distributed sensing is still an open …

Despite the rapid growth of hardware capacity and popularity in mobile devices, limited
resources in battery and processing capacity still lack the ability to meet increasing mobile …

GPU Parallel Program Development using CUDA teaches GPU programming by showing
the differences among different families of GPUs. This approach prepares the reader for the …

Background The number of technical solutions for monitoring patients in their daily activities
is expected to increase significantly in the near future. Blood pressure, heart rate …