Granular computing, as a new and rapidly growing paradigm of information processing, has
attracted many researchers and practitioners. Granular computing is an umbrella term to …

Fuzzy systems have been used widely thanks to their ability to successfully solve a wide
range of problems in different application fields. However, their replication and application …

Clustering has been proven to be one of the most efficient techniques for saving energy of
wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, in a hierarchical cluster based WSN, cluster …

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a new paradigm in information technology aimed at
empowering people's capabilities by means of digital environments that are sensitive …

Abstract Service-oriented computing (SOC) represents a paradigm for building distributed
computing applications over the Internet. In the past decade, Web services composition has …

In the past two decades, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have demonstrated their efficacy
in supporting both military and civilian applications, where tasks can be dull, dirty …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a collection of several small and inexpensive battery-
powered nodes, commonly used to monitor regions of interests and to collect data from the …

The energy constraint is one of the inherent defects of the Wireless Sensor Networks
(WSNs). How to prolong the lifespan of the network has attracted more and more attention …

World is now considered as global village because of interconnected networks. Smart
phones and large computing devices exchange millions of information each day. Information …

Clustering has been accepted as one of the most efficient techniques for conserving energy
of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, in a two-tiered cluster based WSN, cluster …