Industry 4.0 and its main enabling information and communication technologies are
completely changing both services and production worlds. This is especially true for the …

With the arrival of Industry 4.0, the overall transformation using digital integration and
intelligent engineering has taken a giant leap towards futuristic technology. All devices today …

Complex continuous optimization problems widely exist nowadays due to the fast
development of the economy and society. Moreover, the technologies like Internet of things …

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have achieved remarkable success in tackling complex
combinatorial optimization problems. However, EAs often demand carefully-designed …

Blockchain technology has been deemed to be an ideal choice for strengthening existing
computing systems in varied manners. As one of the network-enabled technologies, cloud …

A new industrial revolution is undergoing, based on a number of technological paradigms.
The will to foster and guide this phenomenon has been summarized in the expression …

Over the last few years, the fourth industrial revolution has attracted more and more
attentions all around the world. In the current literature, there is still a lack of efforts to …

Big Data has emerged in the past few years as a new paradigm providing abundant data
and opportunities to improve and/or enable research and decision-support applications with …

Advances in the usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) has given rise
to the popularity and success of cloud computing. Cloud computing offers advantages and …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) leads to an ever-growing presence of ubiquitous
networked computing devices in public, business, and private spaces. These devices do not …