Context: Software engineering for ubiquitous systems has experienced an important and
rapid growth, however the vast research corpus makes it difficult to obtain valuable …

Organizations all around the world need to manage huge amounts of data from
heterogeneous sources every day in order to conduct decision making processes. This …

Driven by the increasing diffusion of embedded sensors and actuators, and more in general
by “Internet of Things”(IoT) devices, pervasive computing is becoming a reality. Yet, most …

Complex event processing (CEP) is a cutting-edge technology that allows the analysis and
correlation of large volumes of data with the aim of detecting complex and meaningful …

Abstract Complex Event Processing (CEP) is an emerging technology which allows us to
efficiently process and correlate huge amounts of data in order to discover relevant or critical …

This paper presents a novel home emergency management system (HEMS) for managing
home emergency situations. The proposed solution is a generic and based on normalized …

Self-adaptive context-aware applications are designed to take decisions automatically and
to relieve the user from switching an application manually from one mode of operation to …

Mobile applications require an adaptation phase to adapt to the user's and application
context. Utility functions or rules are most often used to make the adaptation planning or …

Software as a Service reflects a 'service‐oriented'approach to software development that is
based on the notion of composing applications by discovering and invoking network …

Resilient systems are expected to continuously provide trustworthy services despite
changes in the environment or in the requirements they must comply with. In this paper, we …