Computing

Cloud storage adoption has increased over the years given the high demand for fast processing, low access latency, and ever-increasing amount of data being generated by, e.g., Internet of Things applications. In order to meet the users’ demands ...

Lead generation refers to the identification of potential topics (the ‘leads’) of importance for journalists to report on. In this article we present $\mu$XL, a new lead generation tool based on a microservice architecture that includes a component of ...$$

A cloud load balancer should be proficient to modify it’s approach to handle the various task kinds and the dynamic environment. In order to prevent situations where computing resources are excess or underutilized, an efficient task scheduling ...

In recent years, containerization is becoming more and more popular for deploying applications and services and it has significantly contributed to the expansion of edge computing. The demand for effective and scalable container image management, ...

Microservice architecture splits the traditional monolithic application into different small services. Differences in programming language and data structure make communication between each service difficult, and the communication performance ...

Today, with the increasing expansion of IoT devices and the growing number of user requests, processing their demands in computational environments has become increasingly challenging.The large volume of user requests and the appropriate ...

The growing popularity of blockchains highlights the need to improve their scalability. While previous research has focused on scaling transaction processing, the scalability of transaction creation remains unexplored. This issue is particularly ...

The information systems supporting business processes of organizations generate and collect a large number of records in event logs that are exploitable in process mining tasks (discovery, conformance and enhancement). Under a Big Data scenario, ...

Blockchain interoperability has become an essential requirement for the advancement of blockchain technology in numerous fields. Enterprise organizations are increasingly utilizing permissioned blockchains to manage and store their organizations’ ...

Through the integration of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software-Defined Networks, cloud service providers can realize cost reduction, performance enhancement, and support for advanced application scenarios. Within this framework, ...

The development of automatic video understanding technology is highly needed due to the rise of mass video data, like surveillance videos, personal video data. Several methods have been presented previously for automatic video captioning. But, the ...

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a probabilistic model aimed at clustering individuals within a simple network based on their social behavior. This network consists of individuals and edges representing the presence or absence of relationships ...

Nowadays, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms is increasingly affecting the performance of innovative systems. At the same time, the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Edge Computing (EC) as ...

Serverless computing is one of the latest technologies that has received much attention from researchers and companies in recent years since it provides dynamic scalability and a clear economic model. Serverless computing enables users to pay only ...

This paper describes a comprehensive methodology for improving Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) in healthcare systems using Enhanced Gray Wolf Optimization (GWO). The methodology begins with WBAN initialization and the configuration of critical ...