Abstract The Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm envisions the full integration of several
technologies in order to enable a new class of applications relying on an unprecedented …

While real-time sensor feeds have the potential to transform both environmental science and
decision-making, such data are rarely part of real-time workflows, analyses and modeling …

A central concern in the area of pervasive computing has been the integration of digital
artifacts with the physical world and vice-versa. Recent developments in the field of …

Group estimation of user stories is an important part of extreme programming (XP), used for
both planning releases and iterations. Research has shown that although group estimation …

Elasticity is a key feature in cloud computing, which distinguishes this paradigm from other
ones, such as cluster and grid computing. On the other hand, dynamic resource reallocation …

Actually, wireless sensor networks represent a substantial part in IoT. However, their
limitation requires a special consideration in IoT applications. For their integration with the …

The cloud offers attractive options to migrate corporate applications, without any implication
for the corporate security manager to manage or to secure physical resources. While this …

The perception of lack of control over resources deployed in the cloud may represent one of
the critical factors for an organization to decide to cloudify or not their own services …

Enterprises are increasingly using a wide range of heterogeneous information systems for
executing and governing their business activities. Even if the adoption of service orientation …

Measuring the quality of cloud computing provision from the client's point of view is important
in order to ensure that the service conforms to the level specified in the service level …