We present an agent-based model (ABM) simulating proactive community adaptation to climate change in an urban context. The model is applied to Bergen, Norway, represented as a complex socio-ecological system. It integrates multiple agent types: …

Context Since its genesis in late 2008[¹], Bitcoin had a rapid growth in terms of participation, number of transactions and market value. This success is mostly due to innovative use of existing technologies for building a trusted ledger called blockchain.

Apart from static deployments, sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are unaware of their location information. In order to estimate their actual or relative positions with respect to other nodes, they are required to self-localize …

A desirable flooding-based time synchronization pro- tocol inWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) should neither demand fast propagation of up-to-date time information nor keeping track of the neighboring nodes. Moreover, such a protocol is strictly re- …