Internet services have collected our personal data since their inception. In the beginning, the
personal data collection was uncoordinated and was limited to a few selected data types …

Recent years have witnessed growing consolidation of web operations. For example, the
majority of web traffic now originates from a few organizations, and even micro-websites …

Despite the recent growing interest in the “factory smartness”, still there are only few small
and medium enterprises (SMEs) that adopt effective Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) solutions. The main …

The COVID‐19 pandemic has emerged as a highly transmissible disease which has caused
a disastrous impact worldwide by adversely affecting the global economy, health, and …

This paper presents Solid, a decentralized platform for social Web applications. In Solid,
users' data is managed independently of the applications that create and consume this data …

The Decentralised Web (DW) has recently seen a renewed momentum, with a number of
DW platforms like Mastodon, PeerTube, and Hubzilla gaining increasing traction. These …

Abstract Building Information Modelling (BIM) has changed the way in which buildings are
conceived, planned and executed. Apart from their frequent use for as-planned buildings …

Due to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a push for 'immunity passports'
and even technical proposals. Although the debate about the medical and ethical problems …

The World Wide Web has evolved drastically over the past decade–and the proliferation of
Web APIs has turned it into the middle-ware of choice for most distributed systems. The …

Information economics has shown that information is a required input for and a natural
output of every economic activity. A long line of Nobel laureates acknowledged information …