In comparison with cloud computing, edge computing offers processing at locations closer to
end devices and reduces the user experienced latency. The new recent paradigm of in …

Blockchain technology is a highly regarded technology that possesses a plethora of exciting
features. This paper analyzes trends and highlights the potential benefits of blockchain …

Random walks are ubiquitous in the sciences, and they are interesting from both theoretical
and practical perspectives. They are one of the most fundamental types of stochastic …

As the intermediate level task connecting image captioning and object detection, visual
relationship detection started to catch researchers' attention because of its descriptive power …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

The availability of large data sets has allowed researchers to uncover complex properties
such as large-scale fluctuations and heterogeneities in many networks, leading to the …

Blockchain-based drug supply management (DSM) requires powerful security and privacy
procedures for high-level authentication, interoperability, and medical record sharing …

The first edition of this book appeared in 1991 when the technology was new and there were
not too many products. In the Preface to the first edition, we had quoted Michael Stonebraker …

Internet usage has drastically shifted from host-centric end-to-end communication to receiver-
driven content retrieval. In order to adapt to this change, a handful of innovative …

Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers
complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid …