Special issue on ambient systems, networks and technologies

Abstract

Both conferences attracted a good number of scientific papers that contributed to the state-of-the-art in the areas of these conferences' themes. All the papers selected for this special issue have been extended from their original versions and underwent two rounds of rigorous peer-review process. Based on the reviewers' feedback, as well as the evaluations of the Guest Co-editors, 21 papers were selected for this special issue from 35 invited submissions. The accepted papers cover forthcoming development and emerging research along the lines of big data analytics, agent-based systems, IoT, WSNs and information systems. One of the papers is by Igor et al. [1] entitled BHolonification Model for a Multilevel Agent-Based System. Application to Road Traffic^. The authors of this paper presents a novel density approach to cluster and hierarchize population in order to build the initial holarchy. The proposal extends DBSCAN algorithm. Moreover, multilevel indicators based on standard deviation are proposed in order to evaluate