Mobile crowdsensing as a service: A platform for applications on top of sensing Clouds

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 56, Issue , 2016, Pages 623-639

  Merlino, Giovanni ^a,b   Arkoulis, Stamatis ^c   Distefano, Salvatore ^d,e   Papagianni, Chrysa ^c   Puliafito, Antonio ^a   Papavassiliou, Symeon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cloud; Infrastructure as a Service; IoT; Runtime customization; Sensors and actuators; Volunteer contribution

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS); MOBILE DEVICES; PETRI NETS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT; GENERALIZED STOCHASTIC PETRI NETS; IOT; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; RUNTIMES; SENSORS AND ACTUATORS; SERVICE-ORIENTED APPROACHES; VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTIONS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84958896527     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2015.09.017     Document Type: Article

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