Technology has become ubiquitous, and humans are increasingly dependent on it. Concepts like Smart and Cyber–Physical Systems (CPS), and the Internet of Things (IoT), are frequently used to describe applications and systems that surround us. ...

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• Smart and Cyber–Physical Systems (CPS), and IoT are prevalent, but often overlook human actions and intents.
• Need for human-centric paradigms in technology design.
• Introduction of Human-in-the-Loop Cyber–Physical System (HiTLCPS) ...

Blockchain is a relatively recent technology that provides immutability, traceability and transparency of information, thus building trust in the digital society. Blockchain networks generate a large amount of logs which capture and describe data ...

• A proposal for integrating complex event processing and blockchain.
• Developing a portable, maintainable and easily configurable architecture.
• Monitoring blockchain data in real time.
• Automatically detecting real-time anomalies ...

• Using a consortium blockchain based on Hyperledger Indy, this article offers a unique and secure framework for socio-economic purposes, particularly financial bureaucracies.
• BLPCA, a lightweight-plenum consensus protocol, is suggested ...

An examination of different distributed real-time applications operating on the blockchain platform is conducted. These applications can be broadly classified into three types: permissionless public, permissioned private, and consortium chains. ...

Complex and large software-intensive systems are increasingly present in several application domains, including Industry 4.0, connected health, smart cities, and smart agriculture, to mention a few. These systems are commonly composed of diverse ...

• It is a typology with architectural strategies and their levels of interoperability.
• The typology was created from evidence in literature and validated and refined it.
• We offer strategy combinations proven in integration projects, ...

• Existing technologies like smart grid (SG) and smart meters play a significant role in meeting the everlasting demand of energy consumption, supply, and generation for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy trading between different distributed ...

Existing technology like smart grid (SG) and smart meters play a significant role in meeting the everlasting demand of energy consumption, supply, and generation for peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading between different distributed prosumers. ...

In the post-epidemic era, the prevalence of remote collaborations in modern work environments highlight the importance of e-voting as a critical component in facilitating distributed decision-making. Most of the existing e-voting systems heavily ...

• Propose a self-tallying e-voting with public traceability based on blockchain.
• Introduce a traceable ring signature to balance the anonymity and accountability.
• Prove a detailed security proof for the protocol.
• Evaluate the ...

Secure deduplication and data auditing are significant in improving the resource utilization and data integrity protection of data outsourcing services. However, existing audit-enabled deduplication schemes cannot implement block-level ...

• We design a novel authentication data structure, namely NTCT, which employs aggregatable vector commitment to integrate the information of all blocks into a ...

Nowadays, software systems are mainly Web front-based, Cloud-deployed and accessible by a wide audience over the Internet. These online systems commonly rely on Service-oriented Architecture principles, where they are built as ...

• A practical reputation assessment model is proposed for service recommendation.

The Internet of Things (IoT) revolutionizes the technology landscape by enabling a wide spectrum of services and applications, characterized by a large number of devices, communication protocols, and data formats. Seamless integration ...

• Designed a framework for device integration and communication across microservices.

Blockchain is a cutting-edge technology based on a distributed, secure and immutable ledger that facilitates the registration of transactions and the traceability of tangible and intangible assets without requiring central governance. ...

• EDALoCo, an approach for integrating blockchain and low-code paradigms.
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• A fully reusable WoT microservice architecture for smart ports is provided.
• The ...

Major advances in telecommunications and the Internet of Things have given rise to numerous smart city scenarios in which smart services are provided. What was once a dream for the future has now become reality. However, the need to ...

• Facilitating the Monitoring and Management of Structural Health in Civil Infrastructures.

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is nowadays a requirement for civil infrastructures like tunnels, bridges and viaducts. With the advances provided by the Internet of Things (IoT) in recent years in areas such as wireless ...

• The problem of energy aware in mixed-criticality systems is considered.
• The ...

Many real-time applications with different criticalities are integrated into a single mixed-criticality (MC) real-time system. Previous studies on MC systems assume that all tasks are executed in their worst case execution time and ...

• Propose an efficient server-aided MPC protocol, which minimizes the computation overhead for all the client parties.

Cloud computing has become one of the most popular distributed computing paradigms in recent years. With its advantages of low cost, on-demand flexibility, and high data processing abilities, more and more enterprises have adopted the ...

• Atmosphere is a three-tier software architecture for IoT edge-fog-cloud computing.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has grown significantly in popularity, accompanied by increased capacity and lower cost of communications, and overwhelming development of technologies. At the same time, big data and real-time data ...

• An architecture for processing heterogeneous data sources in IoT is proposed.
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The number of Internet of Things (IoT) and smart devices capable of producing, consuming and exchanging information is constantly increasing. It is estimated there will be around 30 billion of them in 2020. In most cases, the ...

• A framework to augment design models with dependability mechanisms is presented.

Cyber-Physical Systems are usually subject to dependability requirements such as safety and reliability constraints. Over the last 50 years, a body of efficient fault-tolerance mechanisms has been devised to handle faults occurring at ...

• This work presents perspectives on risks and standards that affect the requirements engineering of blockchain as applied to the adoption and standards-based ...

Blockchain aims to transform businesses and other forms of transactions from a centralized, human-based to a shared, algorithm-based trust model, which enables a new risk management paradigm. Misaligned incentives in different ...

• This paper presents a solution for the component-wise migration of cloud applications.

The development of applications independent of the cloud providers where they are going to be deployed is still an open issue. In fact, cloud agnostic software development presents important challenges to be solved. One of these issues ...