The increasing interconnections of city services, the explosion of available urban data, and
the need for multidisciplinary analysis and decision making for city sustainability require new …

Health data integration enables a collaborative utilization of data across different systems. It
not only provides a comprehensive view of a patient's health but can also potentially cope …

Information-intensive transformation is vital to realize the Industry 4.0 paradigm, where
processes, systems, and people are in a connected environment. Current factories must …

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the medical field has led to the massive
deployment of a myriad of medical connected objects (MCOs). These MCOs are being …

The development of electronic health records, wearable devices, health applications and
Internet of Things (IoT)-empowered smart homes is promoting various applications. It also …

Purpose Health-care ontologies and their terminologies play a vital role in knowledge
representation and data integration for health information. In health-care systems, Internet of …

Connected care applications are increasingly used to achieve a more continuous and
pervasive healthcare follow-up of chronic diseases. Within these applications, objective …

With the advent of ICT-based healthcare applications, various formats of health data are
generated every day in huge volume. Such data, consisting of unstructured, semi-structured …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm in which the Internet connects people and the
environment using devices and services that are spread in the user daily routine. In this …

The efficient selection of cluster head nodes for the transmission of the data to the sink node
is the major requirement of the wireless body area network. The present work deals with the …