— In a wireless sensor network (WSN), each sensor monitors environmental parameters, and reports its readings to a base station, possibly through other nodes. A sensor works in c...
Composite (or Complex) event processing (CEP) systems search sequences of incoming events for occurrences of userspecified event patterns. Recently, they have gained more attentio...
—A firewall is a security guard placed between a private network and the outside Internet that monitors all incoming and outgoing packets. The function of a firewall is to exam...
Methods for solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOP) have emerged as key techniques for distributed reasoning. Yet, their application faces significant hurdles...
The global scenario put together by communication networks determines new opportunities towards the realization of Internetbased distributed services in many complex and composite...