An enormous amount of sensing devices (scalar or multimedia) collect and generate
information (in the form of events) over the Internet of Things (IoT). Present research on IoT …

This open access book explores the dataspace paradigm as a best-effort approach to data
management within data ecosystems. It establishes the theoretical foundations and …

The publish/subscribe model for communication has proved to be the most suitable in the
Internet of things (IoT) environment because of the decoupling provided by this model that …

The enormous growth of multimedia content in the field of the Internet of Things (IoT) leads
to the challenge of processing multimedia streams in real-time. Event-based systems are …

Far from being a hype, cybersecurity is one of the most important aspects of our daily lives.
Gaining trust in a cyber system is not an easy task, as problems and security hazards can be …

In this paper we present a set of good practices in the design of a security-centric
architecture for a Communication Channel that can be used to secure a Loosely-Coupled …

IoT sensors use the publish/subscribe model for communication to benefit from its
decoupled nature with respect to space, time, and synchronization. Because of the …

Those who are in pursuit of a comfortable life should forget about learning and those who
are in pursuit of learning should forget about comfortable living. Those who are after …

Hard and soft high-level fusion plays an important role in the situational awareness
literature. To deal with complex real-world situations, it is highly desirable that such systems …

Under the Unique Name Assumption, users need to share agreements on signifiers to use in
schema or data, eg to use “genre” and not “type” to refer to a movie's category. Agreements …