Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystems tend to grow both in scale and complexity, as they consist
of a variety of heterogeneous devices that span over multiple architectural IoT layers (eg, …

Cloud computing is currently classified by the generally accepted terms IaaS, PaaS and
SaaS. These are not precise enough to give users and providers a common terminology to …

Locating mobile objects in a worldwide system requires a scalable location service. An object
can be a telephone or a notebook computer, but also a software or data object, such as a …

Smartphones containing sophisticated high-end hardware and offering high computational
capabilities at extremely manageable costs have become mainstream and an integral part of …

Background: Modern smartphones contain sophisticated high-end hardware features, offering
high computational capabilities at extremely manageable costs and have undoubtedly …

In this paper we present EDAS, an environment for decentralized, adaptive services. This
environment offers flexible service models based on distributed mobile objects ranging from a …

Tinnitus is a complex and heterogeneous psycho-physiological disorder responsible for
causing a phantom ringing or buzzing sound albeit the absence of an external sound source. It …

Smartphones have become an integral part in life of users, mainly because over the course
of recent years, they have become extremely mainstream, cheap, flexible, and they pack high…

Linearizability is a well-known correctness property for concurrent and distributed systems.
In the past, it was also used to prove the design and implementation of replicated state-…

Cloud computing enables access to an almost unlimited amount of resources combined with
usage-based accounting. However, due to their design a lot of applications are not able to …