The opportunistic networks have shown to be an interesting communicationinfrastructure for supporting mobile collaborative systems in several application scenarioslike disaster relief efforts, hospital work and tourism. ...

IoT systems monitoring or controlling the behavior of smart environments frequently require to count on real-time message delivery, in order to support decision making and eventually coordinate the individual behavior ...

Background: Chile has a very high prevalence of childhood obesity; 25% among 4-5y olds. Numerous school-based strategies have been implemented with no lasting improvement. Given that parents are key in obesity prevention ...

Several initiatives propose the use of opportunistic networksand heterogeneous devices to help overcome the communication andcoordination limitations evidenced during first response activities in dis-aster relief ...

Influentials are individuals whose opinions and behaviors affect other people's choices. Online influentials include bloggers. We performed exploratory research to understand how bloggers use their influence to support ...

Nowadays, one of the ways to achieve scalability and flexibility during implementation of applications is by adopting the microsservices paradigm. Through microservices, applications can be fragmented into isolated and ...

In the face of cooperative intelligent transportation systems (C-ITS) advancements, the inclusion of vulnerable road users (VRU), i.e., pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists, has just recently become a part of the ...