15 articles in this issue
Alessandra de Melo e Silva, João José Costa Gondim, Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque and Luis Javier García Villalba
The cyber security landscape is fundamentally changing over the past years. While technology is evolving and new sophisticated applications are being developed, a new threat scenario is emerging in alarming proportions. Sophisticated threats with multi-ve... see more
Lulwah AlSuwaidan and Nuha Almegren
Emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain have affected the digital transformation. Blockchain, on the one hand, was initially developed for the purpose of financial trading due to its robustness especially for fault tolerance ... see more
Rafal Olszowski and Marcin Chmielowski
In this study, we focus on models of civic debate suitable for use in Polish-Ukrainian internet projects, as well as methods of researching collective intelligence that can help to monitor particular aspects of such debates and consequently create social ... see more
Sebastian R. Bader and Maria Maleshkova
The digital revolution affects every aspect of society and economy. In particular, the manufacturing industry faces a new age of production processes and connected collaboration. The underlying ideas and concepts, often also framed as a new “Internet of T... see more
Christophe Lohr and Jérôme Kerdreux
The xAAL home automation system has been designed on the basis of distributed systems principles with messages passing and home network communications over IP. The proposal makes extensive use of standards and provides a clear separation of roles along th... see more
Hany F. Atlam, Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Madini O. Alassafi, Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi and Ahmed Alenezi
Most current access control models are rigid, as they are designed using static policies that always give the same outcome in different circumstances. In addition, they cannot adapt to environmental changes and unpredicted situations. With dynamic systems... see more
KeDi Li and Ning Gui
The life-long monitoring and analysis for complex industrial equipment demands a continuously evolvable machine-learning platform. The machine-learning model must be quickly regenerated and updated. This demands the careful orchestration of trainers for m... see more
Gonzalo Olmedo, Román Lara-Cueva, Diego Martínez and Celso de Almeida
As telecommunication systems evolve towards new-generation architectures, likewise, new protocols are created in order to improve efficiency. One of these protocols is Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which controls the transmission bit rate in functi... see more
Jiao Wang, Jay Weitzen, Oguz Bayat, Volkan Sevindik and Mingzhe Li
Network slicing allows operators to sell customized slices to various tenants at different prices. To provide better-performing and cost-efficient services, network slicing is looking to intelligent resource management approaches to be aligned to users’ a... see more
William Hurst, Aaron Boddy, Madjid Merabti and Nathan Shone
Hospital critical infrastructures have a distinct threat vector, due to (i) a dependence on legacy software; (ii) the vast levels of interconnected medical devices; (iii) the use of multiple bespoke software and that (iv) electronic devices (e.g., laptops... see more
Nane Kratzke
From close to scratch, the COVID-19 pandemic created the largest volunteer supercomputer on earth. Sadly, processing resources assigned to the corresponding Folding@home project cannot be shared with other volunteer computing projects efficiently. Consequ... see more
Francesco Curreri, Giacomo Fiumara and Maria Gabriella Xibilia
Soft Sensors (SSs) are inferential models used in many industrial fields. They allow for real-time estimation of hard-to-measure variables as a function of available data obtained from online sensors. SSs are generally built using industries historical da... see more
Yirong Pan, Xiao Li, Yating Yang and Rui Dong
Benefitting from the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning, the machine translation task based on neural networks has achieved impressive performance in many high-resource language pairs. However, the neural machine translati... see more
Malika Bendechache, Sergej Svorobej, Patricia Takako Endo and Theo Lynn
In recent years, there has been significant advancement in resource management mechanisms for cloud computing infrastructure performance in terms of cost, quality of service (QoS) and energy consumption. The emergence of the Internet of Things has led to ... see more
Martin Ebner, Sandra Schön, Clarissa Braun, Markus Ebner, Ypatios Grigoriadis, Maria Haas, Philipp Leitner and Behnam Taraghi
The COVID-19 crisis influenced universities worldwide in early 2020. In Austria, all universities were closed in March 2020 as a preventive measure, and meetings with over 100 people were banned and a curfew was imposed. This development also had a massiv... see more