Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) has emerged as a fundamental paradigm for securing cloud-native and distributed computing environments. However, existing ZTNA implementations remain largely limited by static policy enforcement and opaque machine-lea...
Causal Consistency has been proven to be the strongest type of consistency that can be achieved in a fault-tolerant, distributed system. This paper describes an implementation of D-Thespis, which is an approach that employs the actor mathematical mod...
Raster data represent one of the fundamental data formats utilized in GIS. As the technology used to observe the Earth continues to evolve, the spatial and temporal resolution of raster data is becoming increasingly refined, while the data scale is e...
The Marmara region of Türkiye, situated along the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ), constitutes one of the most seismically active and densely monitored zones globally. Given the region’s high vulnerability and the catastrophic impacts of...
Distributed databases are increasingly used in enterprise and cloud environments, but their distributed architecture introduces significant security challenges, including data leaks and insider threats. In the context of escalating cyber threats targ...
Cloud-native computing enhances the deployment of microservice architecture (MSA) applications by improving scalability and resilience, particularly in Beyond 5G (B5G) environments such as Sixth-Generation (6G) networks. This is achieved through the...
The pervasive use of cloud computing has led to many concerns, such as performance challenges in communication- and computation-intensive services on virtual cloud resources. Most evaluations of the infrastructural overhead are based on standard benc...
The endogenous security paradigm has emerged to address the limitations of traditional cybersecurity, which relies on reactive “patching” and struggles against unknown threats, APTs, and supply chain attacks. Centered on the principle tha...
The XPRIZE Foundation designs and operates multi-million-dollar, global competitions to incentivize the development of technological breakthroughs that accelerate humanity toward a better future. To combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the foundation coordi...
With the increase in size and complexity of spatiotemporal data, traditional methods for performing statistical analysis are insufficient for meeting real-time requirements for mining information from Big Data, due to both data- and computing-intensi...
The Next-Generation IoT integrates diverse technological enablers, allowing the creation of advanced systems with increasingly complex requirements and maximizing the use of available IoT–edge–cloud resources. This paper introduces an orc...
Nowadays, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices generate data at high speed and large volume. Often the data require real-time processing to support high system responsiveness which can be supported by localised Cloud and/or Fog computing paradigms. Howev...
Online services are increasingly becoming a composition of different cloud services, making incident-handling difficult, as Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) with end-user customers need information from other providers about incidents that occur at ups...
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been a tool of choice for 3D dense point cloud reconstructions of forest canopy over the past two decades, but advances in computer vision techniques, such as structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry, have tr...
This paper presents a scalable embedded solution for processing and transferring 3D point cloud data. Sensors based on the time-of-flight principle generate data which are processed on a local embedded computer and compressed using an octree-based sc...
Container technology is currently one of the mainstream technologies in the field of cloud computing, yet its adoption in resource-constrained, latency-sensitive edge environments introduces unique security challenges. While existing system call-base...
The incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks is expected to revolutionize communication systems, transforming them into intelligent platforms that provide seamless connectivity and intelligent services....
Spatio-temporal interpolation provides estimates of observations in unobserved locations and time slots. In smart cities, interpolation helps to provide a fine-grained contextual and situational understanding of the urban environment, in terms of bot...
Augmented user experiences in the cultural heritage domain are in increasing demand by the new digital native tourists of 21st century. In this paper, we propose a novel solution that aims at assisting the visitor during an outdoor tour of a cultural...
This paper investigates the integration of distributed computing and edge Artificial Intelligence (edge AI) as foundational enablers of sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks. Through a systematic review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Sys...
This paper presents a real-time speech-to-text (STT) system designed for edge computing environments requiring ultra-low latency and local processing. Differently from cloud-based STT services, the proposed solution runs entirely on a local infrastru...
Serverless computing has emerged as a prominent research focus in cloud computing because it provides infrastructure-transparent development and elastic resource management. However, this computing paradigm still faces the inherent challenge of cold...
Clinical adoption of large language models (LLMs) in public healthcare faces a structural impasse: the capital expenditure of centralised high-performance computing on one side and the privacy risk of routing patient data through third-party cloud in...
While the massive adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is threatening the environment, new research efforts begin to be employed to measure and mitigate the carbon footprint of both training and inference phases. In this domain, two carbon-aware...
Medical teleconsultation was among the initial use cases for early telepresence research projects since medical treatment often requires timely intervention by highly specialized experts. When remote medical experts support interventions, a holistic...
The rapid proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs), including photovoltaics, wind power, battery energy storage, and electric vehicles, has transformed traditional power systems into highly decentralized and data-rich environments. Virtua...
Current security solutions predominantly rely on cloud-based implementations, often neglecting computational resource constraints and operational efficiency. While contemporary methodologies typically require additional training, the few that operate...
Perennial snowfields in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve (GAAR) in the central Brooks Range of Alaska are a critical component of the cryosphere. They serve as habitat for an array of wildlife, including caribou, a species that is cruci...
A recent innovation in the trusted execution environment (TEE) technologies enables the delegation of privacy-preserving computation to the cloud system. In particular, Intel SGX, an extension of x86 instruction set architecture (ISA), accelerates th...
Multi-Key Searchable Encryption (MKSE) enables data owners (DOs) to outsource their data to a cloud server (CS) while supporting fine-grained data sharing with other authorized users. Most existing MKSE schemes can protect data users’ (DUs&rsqu...
Construction site monitoring is currently performed through visual inspections and costly selective measurements. Due to the small overhead in construction projects, additional resources are scarce to frequently conduct a metric quality assessment of...
This paper presents a real-time browser-based platform for thermohydraulic characterization of a compact laboratory heating system, developed using the PolyVR research-grade virtual reality engine. Experimental measurements are retrieved at 1 Hz from...
Invasive annual grasses, such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.), have proliferated in dryland ecosystems of the western United States, promoting increased fire activity and reduced biodiversity that can be detrimental to socio-environmental systems....
Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving edge intelligence because it enables geographically distributed devices to collaboratively train a shared model without transferring raw data to a central cloud. This...
This paper presents Alert360, a low-cost and intrinsically interpretable browser-based multi-camera motion awareness system for local monitoring in security, retail, education, laboratory, and workplace settings, designed to run on commodity cameras...
In this paper, we present Low-Bandwidth Distributed Applications Framework (LDAF)—an application-aware gateway for communication-constrained Internet of things (IoT) devices. A modular approach facilitates connecting to existing cloud backend s...
Virtualization is the building block of modern cloud computing infrastructure. However, it remains vulnerable to a range of security threats, including malicious co-located tenants, hypervisor vulnerabilities, and side-channel attacks. These threats...
A principled, model-agnostic framework for structural feature extraction in time series is presented, grounded in topological data analysis (TDA). The motivation stems from two gaps identified in the literature: First, compact and interpretable repre...
Efficient spatial indexing is critical for processing large-scale remote sensing datasets (e.g., LiDAR point clouds, orthophotos, hyperspectral imagery). We present a bidirectional, hierarchical index based on the Polish PL-2000 coordinate reference...
Background: Neurosurgery depends heavily on implanted biomaterials, and the endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms (IAs) is the paradigmatic case, since coils, flow diverters and intrasaccular devices achieve durable occlusion only through...
This paper explores the relationship between two emerging technologies, WebAssembly (Wasm) and the Internet of Things (IoT). It examines the complementary roles of these technologies and their impact on modern web applications. First, it delves into...
As the concept of the Metaverse evolves, virtual reality (VR) plays a pivotal role in creating immersive, socially interactive environments that form the backbone of this interconnected digital universe. However, VR technology often faces significant...
With the development of space-based cloud computing and on-orbit intelligent processing, higher requirements have been imposed on standardized network interconnection for spaceborne platforms. However, constrained by size, power consumption, thermal...
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