As we are moving towards the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of sensors deployed
around the world is growing at a rapid pace. Market research has shown a significant growth …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging classical model, envisioned as a system of
billions of small interconnected devices for posing the state-of-the-art findings to real-world …

The availability of streaming data sources is progressively increasing thanks to the
development of ubiquitous data capturing technologies such as sensor networks. The …

Challenges the Internet of Things (IoT) is facing are directly inherited from today's Internet.
However, they are amplified by the anticipated large scale deployments of devices and …

The concept of “smart city” has attracted considerable attention lately. Still, common
definitions are hard to find, and there is a lack of formal models to guide their design. This …

This paper presents an overview of ongoing work to develop a generic ontology design
pattern for observation-based data on the Semantic Web. The core classes and …

We introduce SRBench, a general-purpose bench mark primarily designed for s treaming R
DF/SPARQL engines, completely based on real-world data sets from the Linked Open Data …

A number of government, corporate, and academic organizations are collecting enormous
amounts of data provided by environmental sensors. However, this data is too often locked …

Abstract The Geosciences and Geography are not just yet another application area for
semantic technologies. The vast heterogeneity of the involved disciplines ranging from the …

The Young's modulus of an electroplated nickel (Ni) thin film suitable for
microelectromechanical applications has been investigated as a function of process …