We are living in the era of the fourth industrial revolution, namely Industry 4.0. This paper
presents the main aspects related to Industry 4.0, the technologies that will enable this …

Task allocation (TA) is essential when deploying application tasks to systems of connected
devices with dissimilar and time-varying characteristics. The challenge of an efficient TA is to …

The constantly increasing need for data exchange among various types of devices, mobile
and fixed, is one of the main characteristics of technological developments in the last few …

When controlling cyber–physical systems via consensus algorithms, the robustness issue is
of paramount importance because of model mismatching and/or disturbances that generally …

The spread of off-the-shelf mobile devices equipped with multiple wireless interfaces
together with sophisticated sensors is paving the way to novel wireless Internet of Things …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is regarded one of the evolving technologies that offers
many vertical industries excellent possibilities. The IoT paradigm paves the way for a world …

To provide faster access to the treatment of patients, healthcare system can be integrated
with Internet of Things to provide prior and timely health services to the patient. There is a …

In the fast-growing Internet of Things (IoT), applications from personal devices to industrial
instruments and sensors connect wirelessly to the Internet. Considering that a broad …

The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) is a novel communication paradigm according to which
the objects connected to the Internet create a dynamic social network that is mostly used to …

Task assignment is a crucial problem in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that may affect the
completion quality of sensing tasks. From the perspective of global optimization, a …