While Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been traditionally tasked with single
applications, in recent years we have witnessed the emergence of Shared Sensor Networks …

Purpose: Human-centric characteristics of the end-users of software systems, such as
gender, age, emotions, personality, language, culture, and physical and mental …

Ubiquitous collaborative systems are difficult to design; particularly those where the
participants are human beings and there is not a pre-established workflow to coordinate the …

IoT systems monitoring or controlling the behavior of smart environments frequently require
to count on real-time message delivery, in order to support decision making and eventually …

Modelling ubiquitous collaborative systems that support people-driven processes represents
a major challenge for software designers, since there is no a workflow that helps identify the …

In Requirements Engineering (RE), goal-oriented techniques have captured significant
attention due to their ability to bridge the gap between stakeholders' goals and the means by …

This chapter explores the people‐driven collaborative processes, and the way to support the
interactions among participants using human–machine units. It also reviews the state‐of‐the …

Opportunistic Internet of Things (IoT) extends the concept of opportunistic networking
combining human users carrying mobile devices and smart things. It explores the …

Mobile computing has allowed us to conceive software systems to support mobile
collaborative work in several business domains, like hospital work, emergency response …

Smartphones are powerful sensing devices that can help us capture not only information
from the environment, but also the users' activities. Based on that information, mobile …