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The evolution of automotive technologies towards more integrated and sophisticated systems requires a shift from traditional distributed architectures to centralized vehicle architectures. This work presents a novel framework that addresses…
DECICE is a Horizon Europe project that is developing an AI-enabled open and portable management framework for automatic and adaptive optimization and deployment of applications in computing continuum encompassing from IoT sensors on the…
Analyzing the interactions between the transmission and distribution (T&D) system is becoming imperative with the increased penetrations of distributed energy resources (DERs) on electric power distribution networks. An assessment of the…
Sensing and communication are fundamental enablers of next-generation networks. While communication technologies have advanced significantly, sensing remains limited to conventional parameter estimation and is far from fully explored.…
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Stream processing is extensively used in the IoT-to-Cloud spectrum to distill information from continuous streams of data. Streaming applications usually run in dedicated Stream Processing Engines (SPEs) that adopt the DataFlow model, which…
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Based on software-defined principles, we propose a holistic architecture for Cyberphysical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and highlight the merits pertaining to scalability, flexibility, robustness,…
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