The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) will play an essential role in future applications aimed
at optimisation of energy consumption. Interoperability of IoT applications can be achieved …

The increasing number of connected devices which use Internet of Things (IoT) technology
and variety of associated services is a real challenge to interoperability. There is a need of …

Many application contexts can benefit from a tight coupling between pervasive objects and
services for the delivery of context-aware ubiquitous services. Context awareness is relevant …

Scalability and on-demand features of cloud computing have revolutionised IT industry in a
large scale. Cloud service providers takes the entire burdens of computing, especially …

Vendor lock-in is a well-known phenomenon in the software industry. Strongly relying on
vendor-specific implementation may cause financial and technological hardships to …

Nowadays, communication devices, such as laptops, computers smart phones and personal
media players, have extensively increased in popularity thanks to the rich set of cloud …

Within the Cloud application life cycle, Cloud monitoring takes an important role since the
fulfilment of the requirements has to be continuously controlled in order to avoid saturation …

Cloud federation is an emerging computing model where multiple resources from
independent cloud providers are leveraged to create large-scale distributed virtual …

The question of generalising the celebrated 2-party non-interactive key exchange (NIKE),
Diffie-Hellman protocol, to a multipartite setting was left as an important open problem. In …

Internet of things (IoT) encompasses information and networking technologies which allow
connected devices gathering data from their environment to exchange information with …