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.