This book examines recent research on designing online charging and discharging strategies for mobile electric vehicles (EVs) in smart grid. First, the architecture and applications are provided. Then, the authors review the existing works on charging and discharging strategy design for EVs. Critical challenges and research problems are identified. Promising solutions are proposed to accommodat…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2015) held in Berlin, Germany, in November 2015. The 16 full and 4 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions, and are presented together with 4 papers from the First Workshop on Situation Recognition by Mining Temporal Information (SIRE…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th National Conference on Embedded System Technology, ESTC 2015, held in Beijing, China, in October 2015. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 papers. The topics cover a broad range of fields focusing on research about embedded system technologies, such as smart hardware, system and network, …
This book comprises peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 5th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet 2015), held in Shanghai, China, 12-15 December, 2015. It includes new multi-disciplinary topics spanning a unique depth and breadth of cutting-edge research areas in Electronic Engineering, Communications and Networks, and Computer Technology. More ge…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2015, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in August/September 2015. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: eParticipation and social media, delibratio…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2015, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in August/September 2015 in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on eParticipation, ePart 2015. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers have been organized…
This SpringerBrief covers modeling and analysis of Denial-of-Service attacks in emerging wireless and mobile applications. It uses an application-specific methodology to model and evaluate denial-of-service attacks. Three emerging applications are explored: multi-modal CSMA/CA networks, time-critical networks for the smart grid, and smart phone applications. The authors define a new performance…
The series “Studies in Systems, Decision and Control” (SSDC) covers both new developments and advances, as well as the state of the art, in the various areas of broadly perceived systems, decision making and control- quickly, up to date and with a high quality. The intent is to cover the theory, applications, and perspectives on the state of the art and future developments relevant to s…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems, MobiWIS 2015, held in Rome, Italy, in August 2015. The 17 full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as mobile services and applications; usability and visu…