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Modern applications are eager to acquire and consume more and more amounts of data coming from distributed heterogeneous devices and sources. The spread of Edge Computing answers to the needs of these applications by enabling access and usage of data directly near the...

Post by Mariet NouriJanian, Eleonora Ciceri, Paola Aurucci and Andrea Micheletti. Image from forbes.com. An Electronic Health Record (henceforth, EHR) is a collection of health information about a patient, which is stored in a digital format. Electronic records in an...

With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its requirements for privacy by design and privacy by default, business operators have started to review the available options for integrating appropriate Access Control mechanisms into their...

If one could describe DITAS in a simple and intuitive way (from the perspective of an application developer), it can be said that is a tool that eases and optimizes data accessibility and provision, offering them timely, securely and accurately under a layer of...

The Internet has become such an integral part of our lives, that we often take for granted just how much it has transformed the way we communicate, share and consume data. The transformation is both seamless and relentless, so perhaps we can forgive the uninitiated...

The new industrial revolution, nowadays called Industry 4.0, pursues the adoption of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) to enable the creation of a real-time, precise, reliable, monitoring system able to feed analytics solutions to support the automation, the control, and...

Logging and monitoring for IoT devices are critical in larger deployments. Smaller edge devices can have unpredictable availability; they might go offline for long periods, change their physical location, or reduce their bandwidth to reduce power usage. Fog, the...

In the lasts years we have seen how new infrastructure technologies have changed the way we think in developing applications. We have evolved from metal hardware provisioning, virtualization, to Cloud IaaS, container technologies… the software developer has changed...

With an increasing trend, data-intensive applications are becoming fundamental for the analysis of data gathered by the Internet of Things (IoT). In fact, data collected through tiny and affordable sensors, and transmitted with smart devices, are enabling the fourth...