The Europe wide infrastructure managed by the FEDERICA project demonstrates how an infrastructure based on computers and network physical resources, both capable of virtualization, is a flexible, neutral and efficient facility for future and present Internet research. The facility can create virtual resources sets, grouped in virtual infrastructures (slices) according to users’ specification. T...

The eXplicit Control Protocol (XCP), which explicitly sends feedback information on the current network resource condition to endhosts to control congestion, is a promising protocol for the network supported congestion control that will be needed in the future Internet. Because of its flexibility, XCP can provide relative bandwidth allocation service that is impossible with other protocols. How...

Women’s rights are closely related to economic development. This is true both across countries, where women have most rights in the richest countries, and in time series data: women have slowly improved their legal position in parallel with fast improvements in the standard of living. In most cases, the initial extension of rights to women amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. I...

The written contributions and comments received in relation to the previous and this version of the Research Roadmap have been summarised. That summary and the specific observations from the editors are provided in the Annexes to this version of the Roadmap.

Previous work focused on predicting visual search targets from human fixations but, in the real world, a specific target is often not known, e.g. when searching for a present for a friend. In this work we instead study the problem of predicting the mental picture, i.e. only an abstract idea instead of a specific target. This task is significantly more challenging given that mental pictures of t...

Companies in a variety of industries (e.g., airlines, hotels, theaters) often use last-minute sales to dispose of unsold capacity. Although this may generate incremental revenues in a short term, the long-term consequences of such a strategy are not immediately obvious: more discounted last-minute tickets may lead to more consumers anticipating the discount and delaying the purchase rather than...

In this presentation, we will introduce and explain a research roadmap for Future Internet enterprise systems. This research roadmap has been developed by the community of scientists, developers and other stakeholders in the context of the “Future Internet Enterprise Systems” cluster, managed by the “Internet of Things and Networked Enterprise” unit of the Information Society and Media General-...

Auction fever is a multifaceted phenomenon that is frequently observed in both traditional and Internet auctions. In order to gain a better understanding of its causes, we develop a conceptual framework to analyze emotions in auctions, which is based on an exhaustive literature review. The framework integrates rational calculus with emotional aspects and suggests that emotional processing is tr...

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