Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems
Heterogeneous, Diffuse and Green Technological Infrastructures for Cities and Industries
- 1st Edition - October 22, 2026
- Latest edition
- Authors: Zakaria Benomar, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino, Antonio Puliafito
- Language: English
Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: Heterogeneous, Diffuse and Green Technological Infrastructures for Cities and Industries offers a comprehensive approach on how to design… Read more
Description
Description
As dealing with complex systems has become increasingly difficult, CPSs are increasingly critical to cope with integrating software, which people are used to, with hardware, which is distributed among different domains. This book shows how to deal with such systems where there is no distinction among the different parts: computing, storage, networking, and IoT all contribute to setting up the modern processing environments, thus it is mandatory to keep them simultaneously under control.
Key features
Key features
- Employs a versatile, bottom-up, horizontal approach to CPS infrastructure and applications
- Utilizes the Stack4Things framework, an evolution of the OpenStack environment, to construct a virtual representation of the systems under exam and manage complex systems of systems, both in the fields of smart cities and industry 4.0
- Considers green aspects as a driving principle in the design and operational phase and explores systems construction green principles throughout
- Follows a practically oriented approach, with theory supported by guided experiments related to smart cities and smart industries as the main application fields
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Fundamentals
1. Internet of Things
2. Cloud Computing
3. Beyond the Continuum
4. Implementing the I/Ocloud
5. Network virtualization in IoT
6. Weaving the Web of Things
7. The deviceless paradigm
8. Decentralizing authorization and delegation
9. Heterogeneous computing
10. SLICES
11. The SLICES Cloud continuum blueprint
12. Cyber-Physical Systems as urban infrastructure
Part II: Applications
13. Setting up a Stack4Things I/Ocloud
14. Stack4Things services
15. IoT-hosted computation customized with plugins
16. Securing CPS assemblies with ESSecA
17. IoT-driven peer-to-peer networking
18. Accelerated workloads at the Edge
19. Federated learning at the Edge
20. AI-based health assessment of greenhouse crops
21. Agentic AI for video surveillance
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 22, 2026
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
Zakaria Benomar
Zakaria Benomar holds a Ph.D. in Cyber-Physical Systems from the University of Messina, Italy. He contributed to the design and development of the Stack4Things middleware. After obtaining his Ph.D., he held a Postdoctoral Researcher position at the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria), Paris, France. Currently, he is a Senior Research and Development Engineer at Thales cortAIx Labs, Palaiseau, France. His interests include distributed systems, Cloud/Edge computing, networking and IoT.
Francesco Longo
Francesco Longo received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Messina, Italy, where he is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers in international journals and conferences. His main research interests include analytical modeling and performance evaluation; reliability and availability of distributed systems; Grid and Cloud computing; Internet of Things and Fog/Edge computing and their applications in the context of Smart Cities; blockchain technologies and their use for IoT, Cloud, and Fog/Edge computing. He is one of the co- founders of SmartMe.IO Srl, an academic spinoff of the University of Messina focusing on transforming the advances of scientific research in the IoT field into solutions available on the market. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Horcynus Orca Foundation and of the Messina Evolved Social District.
Giovanni Merlino
Giovanni Merlino is an associate professor in computer science engineering at the University of Messina, Italy.His research focuses on mobile and distributed systems with particular emphasis on IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems modeled as software-defined infrastructure, especially in terms of hybrid IT/OT convergence and decentralization protocols.
He played a key role in designing the Stack4Things middleware. He is co-founder of SmartMe.io, an academic spin-off and startup company, and co-inventor and holder of a patent. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications.