Volunteer Computing is a kind of distributed computing that harnesses the aggregated spare
computing resources of volunteer devices. It provides a cheaper and greener alternative …

Today's smartphones operate independently of each other, using only local computing,
sensing, networking, and storage capabilities and functions provided by remote Internet …

The rise of mobile devices and the Internet of Things has generated vast data which require
efficient processing methods. Volunteer Computing (VC) is a distributed network that utilises …

Emotion recognition is one of the latest challenges in intelligent human/computer
communication. Most of the previous work on emotion recognition focused on extracting …

Smart card-based E-payment systems are receiving increasing attention as the number of
implementations is witnessed on the rise globally. Understanding of user adoption behavior …

This paper focuses on the use of CoAP as a means of connecting clouds of sensors & smart
devices via mobile devices with users. We present an alternative to the hierarchical view on …

Mobile platforms are becoming the predominant medium of access to Internet services due
to the tremendous increase in their computation and communication capabilities. However …

Abstract Bryant's Binary Decision Diagrams(BDDs)[6] have been successfully used for
verifying combinational circuits [12, 18]. However, multiplier circuits are difficult to verify …

We present an 8-approximation algorithm for the problem of finding a minimum weight
subset feedback vertex set (or subset-fvs, in short). The input in this problem consists of an …

Advances in grid computing are stimulating the emergence of novel types of grids, such as
accessible, manageable, interactive, and personal grids. More and more researchers are …