Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, 1st ed. 2015 8th International Conference, IDCS 2015, Windsor, UK, September 2-4, 2015. Proceedings Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI Series

Cloud Computing and Internet of Things.-Cloud Shield: Effective Solution for DDoS in Cloud.-Towards Modelling-based Self-adaptive Resource Allocation in Multi-tiers Cloud Systems.- Web2Compile-CoT: A web IDE for the Cloud of Things.- Fuzzy Logic Based Energy Aware VM Consolidation.- Autonomic and Cognitive Architectures for the Internet of Things.- Sensor Networks.- Sensor Web Enablement applied to an Earthquake Early Warning System.- Towards motion characterization and assessment within a wireless body area network.- Data Driven Transmission Power Control for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Mining Regularities in Body Sensor Network Data.- Smart Cities and Smart Buildings.- Task Execution in Distributed Smart Systems.- Inferring Appliance Load Profiles From Measurements.- Intra Smart Grid Management Frameworks for Control and Energy Saving in Buildings.- Urban Crowd Steering: an Overview.- Distributed Computing.- Towards a Self-Adaptive Middleware for Building Reliable Publish/Subscribe Systems.- Review of Replication Techniques For Distributed Systems.- Connectivity Recovery in Epidemic Membership Protocols.- Parallel Computing.- Optimisation Techniques for Parallel K-Means on MapReduce.- Epidemic Fault Tolerance for Extreme-Scale Parallel Computing.- A GPU-based Statistical Framework for Moving Object Segmentation: Implementation, Analysis and Applications.- Advanced Networking.- Hardware-Assisted IEEE 802.15.4 Transmissions and Why to Avoid Them.- Containment of Fast Scanning Computer Network Worms.- Fragmented-Iterated Bloom Filters for Routing in Distributed Event-Based Sensor Networks.- Big Data and Social Networks.- Fast Adaptive Real-Time Classification for Data Streams with Concept Drift.- Omentum - a Peer-to-Peer Approach for Internet-scale Virtual Microscopy.- Using social networks data for behavior and sentiment analysis.- Sentimental Preference Extraction from Online Reviews for Recommendation.