Over the past years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the development of basic technology as well as innovative applications for the Internet of Things.
Adaptive Middleware for the Internet of Things introduces a scalable, inter-operable and privacy-preserving approach to realize IoT applications and discusses abstractions and mechanisms at the middleware level that simplify the realization of services that can adapt autonomously to the behavior of their users.
Technical topics discussed in the book include:
- Behavior-driven Autonomous Services
- GAMBAS Middleware Architecture
- Generic and Efficient Data Acquisition
- Interoperable and Scalable Data Processing
- Automated Privacy Preservation
Adaptive Middleware for the Internet of Things summarizes the results of the GAMBAS research project funded by the European Commission under Framework Program 7. It provides an in-depth description of the middleware system developed by the project consortium. In addition, the book describes several innovative mobility and monitoring applications that have been built, deployed and operated to evaluate the middleware under realistic conditions with a large number of users.
This book is ideal for personnel in the computer and communication industries as well as academic staff and research students in computer science interested in the development of systems and applications for the Internet of Things.
Dr. Marcus Handte received a master's degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002 and his Diploma in Software Engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 2003. From August 2007 to October 2009 he was working as a full-time researcher at Fraunhofer IAIS, since then he is working at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2009 he received a PhD in computer science from the University of Stuttgart and in 2013 he received his postdoctoral lecture qualification from the University of Duisburg-Essen. His past research focused on middleware for adaptive and self-configuring systems. From 2012 to 2015, he was responsible for the technical coordination of the research and development work within the GAMBAS project.
Prof. Dr. Pedro Jose Marron received his bachelor and master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1996 and 1998 and his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in 2001. After a professorship at the University of Bonn, he is currently full professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he leads the "Networked Embedded Systems Group". Pedro Marron is also founder of Locoslab GmbH, an SME specialized in low cost solutions for localization in indoor environments and is also the president of UBICITEC, the European Center for Ubiquitous Technologies and Smart Cities, which counts with over 20 institutional partners from industry and academia.
Prof. Dr. Gregor Schiele is a full professor for computer science and the leader of the research group for embedded systems at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research focusses on adaptive systems and the Internet of Things (IoT). Before joining the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2014, Dr. Schiele worked in different roles at the National University of Ireland in Galway, the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) and the Insight Centre for Data Analytics in Ireland, as well as at the Universities of Mannheim and Stuttgart in Germany. He received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Stuttgart in 2007 for his work on System Support for Pervasive Computing. Dr. Schiele has published over 50 papers, articles and book chapters. He served in more than 100 international technical program committees, is a reviewer for multiple international journals and co-organised a multitude of scientific workshops and conferences. His research received funding from the DFG, the DAAD, a multitude of industry partners, as well as the EU. He is collaborating closely with partners in the EU and worldwide, including in Norway, South Africa, and the USA and is a regular reviewer for international journals and research programs.
