The agent computing paradigm is rapidly emerging as one of the powerful technologies for
the development of large-scale distributed systems to deal with the uncertainty in a dynamic …

Hospital environments tend to be very ineffective, resulting in the lost of valuable resources
at all times. Current approaches that address this problem tend to ignore the patient, looking …

The Internet of Things (IoT) term is recently emerging to envision a global infrastructure of
networked physical objects. As different definitions of IoT do currently exist, we specifically …

Recently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have gained great attention due to their ability
to work effectively in different working fields. It has been widely used in health care …

The concept of autonomous cooperating processes is an approach to solve complex
logistical planning tasks by representing each object in the transport chain by a separate …

Wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs) have become pervasive and are used in
many embedded and intelligent systems. However, the complexity of applications based on …

The Raspberry Pi and its variants have brought with them an aura of change in the world of
embedded systems. With their impressive computation and communication capabilities and …

M-commerce (mobile commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services through
wireless handheld devices such as cellular telephone and personal digital assistants PDA …

Ambient Intelligence promises to transform current spaces into electronic environments that
are responsive, assistive and sensitive to human presence. Those electronic environments …

Wireless sensor networks are increasingly adopted in many engineering applications such
as environmental and structural monitoring. Having proven to be low-cost, easy to install and …