Optimization problems are common in many fields and different domains of the human
activities where we need to find optimal or near-optimal solutions for specific problems with …

Aerial (or airborne) telecommunications have been investigated for three decades through
the design and the evaluation of stratospheric platforms able to offer multiple types of …

In the age of multimedia big data, the popularity of mobile devices has been in an
unprecedented growth, the speed of data increasing is faster than ever before, and Internet …

In this paper, the concept of dynamically deploying Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) over
drones in emergency scenarios is explored by exploiting the modern new Software Defined …

Distributed publish/subscribe systems are poised with challenges of performance
degradation and poor scalability. This is typically caused by an uneven load distribution of …

The paper proposes a comparison between two different coordination protocols for UAVs
management in the agriculture domain. In precision agriculture the presence of parasites or …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most important areas of technological
research thanks to its rapid development. They find application in many aspects of real world …

he Wireless Adhoc Networks (WANETs) are decentralized network with no infrastructure and
access point to control the nodes. Since the topologies in WANETs are dynamic the routing …

In this chapter, we propose a Discrete Firefly Algorithm (DFA) for mine disarming tasks in an
unknown area. Basically, a pheromone trail is used as indirect communication among the …

The research described in this chapter focuses on the problem of multirobot coordination in
search and rescue missions. In particular, decentralized swarm algorithms that use …