Internet of robotic things : converging sensing/actuating, hypoconnectivity, artificial intelligence and IoT Platforms

The Internet of Things (IoT) concept is evolving rapidly and influencing newdevelopments in various application domains, such as the Internet of MobileThings (IoMT), Autonomous Internet of Things (A-IoT), Autonomous Systemof Things (ASoT), Internet of Autonomous Things (IoAT), Internetof Things Clouds (IoT-C) and the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) etc.that are progressing/advancing by using IoT technology. The IoT influencerepresents new development and deployment challenges in different areassuch as seamless platform integration, context based cognitive network integration,new mobile sensor/actuator network paradigms, things identification(addressing, naming in IoT) and dynamic things discoverability and manyothers. The IoRT represents new convergence challenges and their need to be addressed, in one side the programmability and the communication ofmultiple heterogeneous mobile/autonomous/robotic things for cooperating,their coordination, configuration, exchange of information, security, safetyand protection. Developments in IoT heterogeneous parallel processing/communication and dynamic systems based on parallelism and concurrencyrequire new ideas for integrating the intelligent “devices”, collaborativerobots (COBOTS), into IoT applications. Dynamic maintainability, selfhealing,self-repair of resources, changing resource state, (re-) configurationand context based IoT systems for service implementation and integrationwith IoT network service composition are of paramount importance whennew “cognitive devices” are becoming active participants in IoT applications.This chapter aims to be an overview of the IoRT concept, technologies,architectures and applications and to provide a comprehensive coverage offuture challenges, developments and applications

The future of Cybersecurity in Italy: Strategic focus area

This volume has been created as a continuation of the previous one, with the aim of outlining a set of focus areas and actions that the Italian Nation research community considers essential. The book touches many aspects of cyber security, ranging from the definition of the infrastructure and controls needed to organize cyberdefence to the actions and technologies to be developed to be better protected, from the identification of the main technologies to be defended to the proposal of a set of horizontal actions for training, awareness raising, and risk management

Conceptualizing Cryptolaw

I. Introduction II. A Distributed Ledger Technology Primer ... A. Distributed Ledger Technology: Bitcoin’s Blockchain, Ethereum, and Beyond ... B. A Brief Introduction to Smart Contracts III. Defining Cryptolaw ... A. Distributed Ledger Technology Will Lead to Cryptolaw ... B. Three Possible Methods of Adopting Crypto-Legal Structures ... 1. Government Adoption of Industry-Created Crypto-Legal Structures ... 2. Crypto-Legal Structures Directly Coded by Government ... 3. International Development of Crypto-Legal Structures ... C. More than Just Another “Law of the Horse” IV. Conceptualizing Cryptolaw as Disruptive Legal Discourse ... A. Disruption of Substantive Law ... 1. Simplification of Substantive Law ... 2. Emergence of New Regulatory Actors ... B. Disruption of Legal Structure … 1. Disruption of Established Patterns of Enforcement and Related Regulatory Policy Choices ... 2. Disruption of Choices in Legal Forms ... C. Disruption of Legal Culture ... 1. Cryptolaw Envisions a World Without Law Lag ... 2. Cryptolaw Anticipates That Developers Writing Code May Determine Crypto-Legal Culture More than Lawyers V. Challenges, Implications, and Consequences of Adopting Crypto-Legal Structures ... A. Drawing Boundaries Around Cryptolaw’s Scope ... B. Expecting Unexpected Results ... C. Cryptolaw Will Encourage Discourse Regarding Alternative Governance Models VI. Conclusio