The capacity to gather and timely deliver to the service level any relevant information that
can characterize the service-provisioning environment, such as computing …

One of the most striking properties of the Internet is its flexibility to accommodate features it
was not conceived for. Among the most significant examples, in this survey we consider the …

Blockchain technology has attracted considerable attention owing to its wide range of
potential applications. It first appeared as a cryptocurrency, called Bitcoin, but has since …

The first edition of this book appeared in 1991 when the technology was new and there were
not too many products. In the Preface to the first edition, we had quoted Michael Stonebraker …

Distributed data aggregation is an important task, allowing the decentralized determination
of meaningful global properties, which can then be used to direct the execution of other …

Modern supply chain is a complex system and plays an important role for different sectors
under the globalization economic integration background. Supply chain management …

Online social networks (OSNs) such as Facebook and Google+ have transformed the way
our society communicates. However, this success has come at the cost of user privacy; in …

Blockchain offers new ways to the data sharing-based collaboration among IoT devices
when a centralized IT infrastructure is unavailable. As one of the critical elements in a …

The increasing demand for wireless sensor networks to monitor specific regions has
prompted extensive research on sustaining coverage over time. The main threat to this goal …

Fog and Edge Computing infrastructures have been proposed to address the latency issue
of the current Cloud Computing platforms. While a couple of works illustrated the …