Data centres increase their size and complexity due to the increasing amount of heterogeneous work loads and patterns to ...

Data centres constitute the engine of the Internet, and run a major portion of large web and mobile applications, content ...

Data centres are quickly evolving to support new demands for Cloud-Computing services. Extreme workload peaks represent a ...

Data centres have become the backbone of large Cloud services and applica-tions, providing virtually unlimited elastic ...

Carbon emissions, greenhouse gases and pollution in general are usually related to traditional factories, so the most ...

Edge computing constitutes a key paradigm to address the new requirements of areas such as smart cars, industry 4.0, and ...

Energy-awareness remains one of the main concerns for today's cloud computing (CC) operators. The optimisation of energy ...

Social media have emerged in the last decade as a viable and ubiquitous means of communication. The ease of user content ...

This chapter presents the authors’ work for the Case Study entitled “Delivering Social Media with Scalability” within the ...

The management and processing of the data generated by healthcare systems is getting more and more attention because of ...

The number of connected sensors and devices is expected to increase to billions in the near future. However, centralised ...

This Doctoral Dissertation, presented as a set of research contributions, focuses on resource efficiency in data centers. ...

Information technologies must be made aware of the sustainability of cost reduction. Data centers may reach energy consumption ...

Cloud computing and data centers that support this paradigm are rapidly evolving in order to satisfy new demands. These ...

Achieving efficiency both in terms of resource utilisation and energy consumption is acomplex challenge, especially in ...

Energy-awareness remians the important problem in today’s cloud computing (CC). Optimization of the energy consumed in ...

Cloud computing (CC) systems are the most popular computational environments for providing elastic and scalable services ...

The quality of services in Cloud Computing (CC) depends on the scheduling strategies selected for processing of the complex ...

The fear experienced by data center administrators presents an ongoing problem due to the low percentage of machines that ...

This work studies the problem of energy consumption growth in two spheres: Grid-Computing and Smart Environments. These ...

Activity recognition (AR) and fall detection (FD) research areas are very related in assistance scenarios but evolve ...

With the increase of intelligent devices, ubiquitous computing is spreading to all scopes of people life. Smart home (or ...

The spread of cloud computing has increased recent data center size and usage. Because of this, the op­timization of data ...

This work studies the problem of energy consumption growth in two spheres: Grid-Computing and Smart Environments. These ...

In this paper, we propose a new methodology to compare and promote efficient driving by providing feedback to the user. ...

The efficiency in the management of public re sources is on of the main pillars of the welfare state. The objective of ...

The interest about Smart City concept has in creased in recent years. In fact, Smart Cities is ex pected to improve cityzens ...

This paper presents the architecture of an ecodriving assistant. The assistant evaluates the fulfilment of classic eco-driving ...

La popularización de la computación ubicua y la inteligencia ambiental se ha visto potenciada por el incremento de los ...

El aumento de la capacidad de procesamiento en los computadores permite llevar a cabo tareas que hasta ahora no eran ...

n este artículo se realiza un estudio sobre los sen sores biométricos que pueden ayudar a tomar me didas sobre el estrés ...

A new approach technology to enable the expansion and replication of resources on demand is presented in this paper. This ...

Energy saving involves two direct benefits: sustainability and cost reduction, both of which Information Technologies must ...

Energy saving involves two direct benefits: sustainability and cost reduction. Within the field of Informa tion Technology, ...

This paper presents the architecture of an eco driving assistant. The assistant evaluates the fulfil ment of classic ...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the cksign of a software framework to build smart environ­ment, based in the ...

Energy saving involves two direct benefits: sus­tainability and cost reduction and lnforrnation Technologies must be aware ...

LECOMP is a mesh network protocol that is focused on minimizing bat tery consumption of nodes in a Wireless Sensor Network ...

This article is focused on adapting lighting conditions to user lighting preferences. A theoretical analysis of lighting ...

This article is focused on adapting lighting con­ditions to user lighting preferences. A theoretical analysis of lighting ...

As a result of the increment of population in countries of Europe, a lot of efforts from European Authorities are coming ...

This chapter presents a e-health system for dependent people installed in a home environment. After reviewing the state ...

This article is focused on adapting lighting conditions to user lighting preferences. A theoretical analysis of lighting ...

Nowadays ubiquitous computing is spreading to all scopes of our lives. Smart environments are present at every location ...

Tne automation of smart environment systems is one of the main goals of smart home researching. Tui paper focus on learning ...

This paper proposes a method to localize a robot in a collaborative enviroment when it can not do itself. In a enviroment ...

The automation of smart environment systems is one of the main goals of smart home researching. This paper focus on learning ...

In this paper we propose a solution that improves the synchronization and effectiveness of sending and receiving of goods ...

This communication proposes a basic software and hardware architecture of a controller for the X10 technology interface ...

Esta comunicación propone una arquitectura y un software básicos para la elaboración de un entorno de desarrollo que nos ...

This paper reviews the goals of the Domoweb pro­ject and the solutions adopted to achieve them. As a result we enjoy a ...

This article describes a service architecture for ambient assisted liv ing and in particular an orientation navigation ...

This paper reviews the goals of the Domoweb project and the solutions adopted to achieve them. As a result we enjoy a great ...

Although computer science and telecommunications have evolved from the 90’s to nowadays, the way people communicate each ...

Identificar y reproducir el razonamiento humano, es uno de los objetivos principales de la Inteligen­cia Artificial. En ...

El desarrollo del proyecto Domoweb, cuyo objetivo principal, es la creación de un entorno domótico gestionado vía Web, nos ...