Introduction & Motivation As evidence in support of anthropogenic climate change continues to mount [1], the study of climate has become a focus of scientific research, political attention, and socioeconomic concern. There are many different aspects to studying climate, from the collection and analysis of historical/observed data to the understanding of current climate and its underlying physic...

“Space drives,” “Warp drives,” and “Wormholes:” these concepts may sound like science fiction, but they are being written about in reputable journals. To assess the implications of these emerging prospects for future spaceflight, NASA supported the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project from 1996 through 2002. This project has three grand challenges: (1) Discover propulsion that eliminates the...

Management on inter-enterprise collaborations (business networks) still face grand challenges especially in terms of managing interoperability of nonfunctional properties (NFPs) at various levels (technical, semantic, pragmatic). This paper identifies three categories of nonfunctional properties (collaborative for business level, contractual for communication issues, extrafunctional for computa...

The increasing scale complexity, heterogeneity and dynamism of networks, systems and applications have made our computational and information infrastructure brittle, unmanageable and insecure. This has necessitated the investigation of an alternate paradigm for system and application design, which is based on strategies used by biological systems to deal with similar challenges – a vision that ...

In recent years, solar-driven steam materials and systems for water desalination decontamination have received increasing attention from the scientific community. Notwithstanding fundamental achievements reached on this topic, numerous technological concerns still remain to be addressed, including heat loss, radiation reflection, low degree of purification condensed water, biofouling, salt accu...

Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) is playing vital role in healthcare industry to increase the accuracy, reliability and productivity of electronic devices. Researchers are contributing towards a digitized healthcare system by interconnecting the available medical resources and healthcare services. As IOT converge various domains but our focus is related to research contribution of IOT in healt...