The demand for Blockchain innovation and the significance of its application has inspired
ever-progressing exploration in various scientific and practical areas. Even though it is still in …

Purpose Despite the ongoing calls for the incorporation of the cloud utility model, the effect
of the cloud on elements of supply chain performance is still an evolving area of research …

A disruptive technology that is influencing not only computing paradigm but every other
business is the rise of big data. Internet of Things (IoT) applications are considered to be a …

First, the data can simply grow too big over time to fit into the available RAM. Second, most
of big data applications produce data spread across multiple distributed data sources …

In recent years, cloud storage systems have emerged as a promising technology for storing
data blocks on various cloud servers. One of the main mechanisms in cloud storage systems …

Research into ambient assisted living (AAL) strives to ease the daily lives of people with
disabilities or chronic medical conditions. AAL systems typically consist of multitudes of …

Cloud services and applications prove indispensable amid today's modern utility-based
computing. The cloud has displayed a disruptive and growing impact on everyday …

Cloud computing provides on-demand access to affordable hardware (such as multicore
CPUs, GPUs, disk drives, and networking equipment) and software (databases, application …

This book starts with an introduction to process modeling and process paradigms, then
explains how to query and analyze process models, and how to analyze the process …

Hybrid cloud is a cost-efficient way to address the problem of insufficient resources for
meeting the peak demand of its users for a service provider, which elastically scales up or …