The current trend in universities is marked by integrating information technologies into their
service delivery. Particularly in administration and management, processes are being …

This book chapter reviews the history of Healthcare Information Systems (HISs), discusses
recent cyber security threats affecting HISs, and then introduces the autonomic computing …

Computer networks are critical to many tasks in our daily lives. Therefore, mechanisms that
guarantee the resilience of the network must be provided. Different approaches have been …

The purpose of this paper is to present an edge pervasive platform supporting the
development, deployment and management of flexible, context-aware pervasive …

Network management has steadily evolved over recent years. Along with the growing need
for advanced features in network management solutions, several distribution models were …

Wireless sensor networks are a key aspect of many pervasive systems designed to aid
people in their normal activities and adapt to their current context. However, these systems …

Pervasive computing requires infrastructures that adapt to changes in user behaviour while
minimising user interactions. Policy-based approaches have been proposed as a means of …

The overall goal of this research is to improve the'environment awareness' aspect of
personal autonomic computing. Personal computing offers unique challenges for self …

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have recently attracted a lot of interest in the research
community. The security mechanism with large overhead of computation and …

It is widely agreed that computer networks need to become more resilient to a range of
challenges that can seriously impact their normal operation. Challenges include malicious …