Motivation Scientists increasingly rely on intelligent information systems to help them in their
daily tasks, in particular for managing research objects, like publications or datasets. The …

The modeling, analysis and performance evaluation of large-scale systems are difficult
tasks. Due to the size and complexity of the considered systems, an approach typically …

Networking research often relies on simulation in order to test and evaluate new ideas. An
important requirement of this process is that results must be reproducible so that other …

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the interconnection of billions of IP-enabled devices,
denoted as" smart objects", with limited capabilities, in terms of computational power and …

There is an increasing demand for the runtime reconfiguration of distributed systems in
response to changing environments and evolving requirements. Reconfiguration must be …

This books is by no means a treatise on all aspects of Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITSs). Rather, it attempts to present a unified perspective on ITS, encompassing a few …

The popularity of the cloud computing paradigm is opening new opportunities for
collaborative computing. In this paper we tackle a fundamental problem in open-ended …

The widespread use of tracking and localization systems may be hindered by centralized
server platforms whose performance can hardly scale up to the needs of very large numbers …

The research community is seeking for novel technological/business models to speed up the
decarbonization process, ie a decreasing relative reliance on carbon. The completion of …

The increasing diffusion of cloud technologies offers new opportunities for distributed and
collaborative computing. Volunteer clouds are a prominent example, where participants join …