Since decades, the financial industry has experienced a continuous evolution in service
delivery due to digitalization. This evolution is characterized by expanded connectivity and …

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide an in-depth analysis of different platforms
available for performing big data analytics. This paper surveys different hardware platforms …

Crowdsourcing systems on the World-Wide Web Page 1 86 CommuniCations oF the aCm |
APRIL 2011 | vOL. 54 | nO. 4 review articles social systems, social search, social media …

Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are being integrated into the power market by
customers rather than large scale energy suppliers, thereby slowly transforming the …

Trust and reputation are central to effective interactions in open multi-agent systems (MAS)
in which agents, that are owned by a variety of stakeholders, continuously enter and leave …

With this essential guide to vehicular networking, you will learn about everything from
conceptual approaches and state-of-the-art protocols, to system designs and their …

Security and privacy issues have become critically important with the fast expansion of
multiagent systems. Most network applications such as pervasive computing, grid …

Blockchain (BC) has received significant attention recently. This paper presents system-
related issues for BCs for financial applications. This paper first presents the design of a BC …

One of the most striking properties of the Internet is its flexibility to accommodate features it
was not conceived for. Among the most significant examples, in this survey we consider the …

Thermoacoustic instability, also known as combustion instability, continues to be a problem
in the development of modern gas turbine combustors and rocket engines. Such instability is …