Computer-based information technologies have been extensively used to help industries manage their processes and information systems become their nervous center. More specifically, databases are designed to support the data storage, processing, and retrieval activities related to data management in information systems. Database management systems provide efficient task support and tremendous ga...

The installation and administration of large heterogeneous IT infrastructures, for enterprises as well industrial automation systems, are becoming more and more complex and time consuming. Industrial automation systems present an additional challenge, in that these control and supervise mission critical production sites. Nevertheless, it is common practice to manually install and maintain indus...

a CEFAGE, Center of Advanced Studies in Management and Economics, University of Évora, 7000-809 Évora, Portugal b Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal c GOVCOPP, Research Unit in Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy, Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering, University o...

With the accelerated development of Internet-ofThings (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSN) are gaining importance in the continued advancement of information and communication technologies, and have been connected and integrated with Internet in vast industrial applications. However, given the fact that most wireless sensor devices are resource constrained and operate on batteries, the communi...