Nowadays the concept of intelligent homes and smart technologies are spreading out and
becoming a vital strategy to optimize the energy performance. Specially that the internet is …

With the exploding power consumption in private households and increasing environmental
and regulatory restraints, the need to improve the overall efficiency of electrical networks has …

Smart world is envisioned as an era in which objects (eg, watches, mobile phones,
computers, cars, buses, and trains) can automatically and intelligently serve people in a …

The application of the two trending and popular technologies, Cloud Computing (CC) and
the Internet of Things (IoT) are current hot discussions in the field of agriculture and …

In the context of the use of wireless sensor network technology for environmental monitoring,
the two main elementary activities of wireless sensor network are data acquisition and …

As consumer electronic devices become more powerful and networked, users are required
to understand more and more'complex'device functionalities just to carry out simplest tasks …

The convergence of embedded systems and wireless communication enables
interconnection of electronic devices to render control and provide information to the user …

We address the need for a high level of abstraction to describe how devices should work
together and to manage their interaction. Our perspective is from workflow, where business …

RPC is widely used to access and modify remote state. Its procedural call semantics are
argued as an efficient unifying paradigm for both local and remote access. Our experience …

We envision an Internet computational platform of the 21st century that will include device
ecologies consisting of collections of devices interacting synergistically with one another …