Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Human-Centric Cyber Social Computing

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Clouds for Social Computing

IN recent time, two complimentary Internet based research areas are emerging: social computing and cloud computing. On the one hand, social computing empowers individual users with relatively low technological sophistication to use the web to engage in social interactions, contribute their expertise and share their content, experiences and opinions. On the other hand, cloud computing offers eve...

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems and Services

A cyber-physical system (CPS) integrates a vast variety of static and mobile resources, including sensor and actuator networks, swarms of robots, remote-controlled vehicles, critical infrastructures, control and decision software, static data and just-in-time information from sensors, knowledge, data analytics and fusion software, eventdriven supply chains, and humans, and offers great potentia...

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Control of Cyber-Physical Systems

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Cyber Security Protections and Applications

Nowadays, the Internet has become increasingly ubiquitous that supports many aspects of our lives. People and our societies have become increasingly dependent on the Internet for personal or professional uses, either for business or leisure. Despite all of the diverse advantages and benefits offered by the Internet, it also has become a common channel for communication and data transmission. Ne...

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Cloud Computing for IoT

IN RECENT years, there has been a growing interest in the ability of embedded devices, sensors, and actuators to communicate, and create a ubiquitous cyber-physical world. The growth of the notion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the rapid development of technologies such as short range mobile communication and improved energy-efficiency is expected to create a pervasive connection of “thing...