Lars Dannecker developed a novel online forecasting process that significantly improves how forecasts are calculated. It increases forecasting efficiency and accuracy, as well as allowing the process to adapt to different situations and applications. Improving the forecasting efficiency is a key pre-requisite for ensuring stable electricity grids in the face of an increasing amount of renewable…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th D-A-CH Conference on Energy Informatics, D-A-CH EI 2015, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, in November 2015. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed energy sources and storage, smart meters and monitoring, research lab infrastruc…
Energy Efficient Servers: Blueprints for Data Center Optimization introduces engineers and IT professionals to the power management technologies and techniques used in energy efficient servers. The book includes a deep examination of different features used in processors, memory, interconnects, I/O devices, and other platform components. It outlines the power and performance impact of these fea…
This book addresses a major problem for today’s large-scale networked systems: certification of the required stability and performance properties using analytical and computational models. On the basis of illustrative case studies, it demonstrates the applicability of theoretical methods to biological networks, vehicle fleets, and Internet congestion control. Rather than tackle the network as…
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the Third International Conference on Networked Systems, NETYS 2015, held in Agadir, Morocco, in May 2015. The 29 full papers and 12 short papers presented together with 22 poster abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. They address major topics such as multi-core architectures; concurrent and distributed algorith…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2015, held in New York City, NY, USA, in November 2015. The 23 full papers and 18 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on wireless security and privacy; smartphone security; systems security; appl…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Nature of Computation and Communication, ICTCC 2014, held in November 2014 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from over 100 submissions. The papers cover formal methods for self-adaptive systems and discuss natural appr…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, MACOM 2015, held in Helsinki, Finland, in September 2015. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They describe the latest advancements in the field of multiple access communications with an emphasis on wireless sensor networks; ph…
This SpringerBrief examines the technology of email privacy encryption from its origins to its theoretical and practical details. It explains the challenges in standardization, usability, and trust that interfere with the user experience for software protection. Chapters address the origins of email encryption and why email encryption is rarely used despite the myriad of its benefits -- benefit…
This brief provides an overview of recent developments in multi-hop routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). It introduces the various classifications of routing protocols and lists the pros and cons of each category, going beyond the conceptual overview of routing classifications offered in other books. Recently many researchers have proposed numerous multi-hop routing protocols …