Top-down visual saliency is an important module of visual attention. In this work, we propose
a novel top-down saliency model that jointly learns a Conditional Random Field (CRF) and a …

The internet of things (IoT) attracts great interest in many application domains concerned
with monitoring and control of physical phenomena. However, application development is …

Application development for the Internet of Things (IoT) poses immense challenges due to
the lack of standard development frameworks, tools, and techniques to assist end users in …

Wireless sensor/actuator networks (WSNs) are hard to program, in particular so for business
domain experts that have a good understanding of how WSNs can best be used to improve …

This paper presents COMFIT (Cloud and M odel based IDE for the Internet of T hings), a
development environment for the Internet of Things that was built grounded on the …

Abstract Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications working on TinyOS operating system
is widely used in various areas. However, the requirement of managing the power …

In this paper, we investigate how model-driven engineering (MDE) of Internet of Things (IoT)
systems and Wireless-Sensor Networks (WSN) can be supported and introduce a domain …

To meet future demands for wireless sensor network (WSN) software, both experts and
average software developers should be involved in WSN software development. However …

There are various operating systems and programming languages for programming the low
power wireless devices in the Internet of Things (IoT). This heterogeneity makes the process …

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) can be considered as the right tool to reduce the
complexity of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) development through its principles of …