Tasks management is a very interesting research topic for various application domains.
Tasks may have the form of analytics or any other processing activities over the available …

Recently, context-aware data management becomes the focus of many research efforts
placed at the intersection between the Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge Computing (EC) …

Owing to the advancements in information and telecommunication technologies, mobile
location-based services are able to use previously collected mobile check-in data. This multi …

The versatility and efficiency of mobile ad-hoc networks comes at a certain cost. The network
nodes are exposed to a variety of attacks and at the same time they are under memory …

In real life, people often participate in activities in groups. During the activities, group
members commonly engage in interactions such as shaking hands, waving hands …

As widely known in the literature, location-based services can seriously threaten users'
privacy. Privacy-aware location-based services can be obtained by protecting the user's …

The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) offers a huge infrastructure where numerous
devices can collect and process data retrieved by their environment. Due to the limited …

Edge Computing (EC) offers an infrastructure that acts as the mediator between the Cloud
and the Internet of Things (IoT). The goal is to reduce the latency that we face when relying …

Abstract In a Pervasive Edge Computing (PEC) ecosystem, numerous Internet of Things
(IoT) devices collect data from their environment and forward them to a network of Edge …

Pervasive computing applications deal with the intelligence surrounding users that can
facilitate their activities. This intelligence is provided in the form of software components …