Throughout the evolution of software systems, empirical methodologies have been used in
their development process, even in the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, to develop IoT …

Non-oncologic chronic pain is a common high-morbidity impairment worldwide and
acknowledged as a condition with significant incidence on quality of life. Pain intensity is …

Purpose With the development of emerging engineering technology and industrialization,
there are greater changes in the life style of people in smart urban cities; therefore, there is …

The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. This article was submitted to
be part of a guestedited issue. An investigation concluded that the editorial process of this …

The spread of IoT-based systems presents several potential benefits to society but still has
crucial challenges in different research areas. From the software development point of view …

This article adapts the use case points (UCPs) method to estimate the size and development
effort (DE) required for the Internet of Things systems. Despite the extensive use of UCP in …

Most of the current smart applications are developed with basis on intelligent computing,
most of which are implemented using big data analytics and much other advanced …

Falls are a main cause of injury for patients with certain diseases. Patients who wear health
monitoring systems can go about daily activities without limitations, thereby enhancing their …

This paper presents a development methodology for Internet of Things (IoT)-based Systems
(IoTS) that gathers ideas from several of the most outstanding software development …

Wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) plays a vital role in monitoring health conditions of
patients and is a low-cost solution for dealing with several healthcare applications …