The financial support for the research is provided by the Swedish Energy Agency under Grant 43090-2, and in part by the Cloudberry Datacenters.

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With an enormous range of applications, the Internet of Things (IoT) has magnetized industries and academicians from everywhere. IoT facilitates operations through ubiquitous connectivity by providing Internet access to all the devices with computing capabilities. With the evolution of wireless infrastructure, the focus from simple IoT has been shifted to smart, connected and mobile IoT (M-IoT) devices and platforms, which can enable low-complexity, low-cost and efficient computing through sensors, machines, and even crowdsourcing. All these devices can be grouped under a common term of M-IoT. Even though the positive impact on applications has been tremendous, security, privacy and trust are still the major concerns for such networks and insufficient enforcement of these requirements introduces non-negligible threats to M-IoT devices and platforms. Thus, it is important to understand the range of solutions which are available for providing a secure, privacy-compliant, and trustworthy mechanism for M-IoT. There is no direct survey available, which focuses on security, privacy, trust, secure protocols, physical layer security and handover protections in M-IoT. This paper covers such requisites and presents comparisons of statethe-art solutions for IoT which are applicable to security, privacy, and trust in smart and connected M-IoT networks. Apart from these, various challenges, applications, advantages, technologies, standards, open issues, and roadmap for security, privacy and trust are also discussed in this paper.

The primary diagnosis of Tuberculosis (TB) is usually carried out by looking at the various signs and symptoms of a patient. However, these signs and symptoms cannot be measured with 100 % certainty since they are associated with various types of uncertainties such as vagueness, imprecision, randomness, ignorance and incompleteness. Consequently, traditional primary diagnosis, based on these signs and symptoms, which is carried out by the physicians, cannot deliver reliable results. Therefore, this article presents the design, development and applications of a Belief Rule Based Expert System (BRBES) with the ability to handle various types of uncertainties to diagnose TB. The knowledge base of this system is constructed by taking experts' suggestions and by analyzing historical data of TB patients. The experiments, carried out, by taking the data of 100 patients demonstrate that the BRBES's

Abstract-A rapidly emerging trend in the IT landscape is the uptake of large-scale datacenters moving storage and data processing to providers located far away from the end-users or locally deployed servers. For these large-scale datacenters power efficiency is a key metric, with the PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) and DCiE (Data Centre infrastructure Efficiency) being important examples. This paper proposes a belief rule based expert system to predict datacenter PUE under uncertainty. The system has been evaluated using real-world data from a data center in the UK. The results would help planning construction of new datacenters and the redesign of existing datacenters making them more power efficient leading to a more sustainable computing environment. In addition, an optimal learning model for the BRBES demonstrated which has been compared with ANN and Genetic Algorithm; and the results are promising.

It is an era of Internet of Things, where various types of sensors, especially wireless, are widely used to collect huge amount of data to feed various systems such as surveillance, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. In these systems, wireless sensors are deployed to make decisions or to predict an event in a real-time basis. However, the accuracy of such decisions or predictions depends upon the reliability of the sensor data. Unfortunately, erroneous data are received from the sensors. Consequently, it hampers the appropriate operations of the mentioned systems, especially in making decisions and prediction. Therefore, the detection of anomaly that exists with the sensor data drew significant attention and hence, it needs to be filtered before feeding a system to increase its reliability in making decisions or prediction. There exists various sensor anomaly detection algorithms, but few of them are able to address the uncertain phenomenon, associated with the sensor data. If these uncertain phenomena cannot be addressed by the algorithms, the filtered data into the system will not be able to increase the reliability of the decision-making process. These uncertainties may be due to the incompleteness, ignorance, vagueness, Communicated by imprecision and ambiguity. Therefore, in this paper we propose a new belief-rule-based association rule (BRBAR) with the ability to handle the various types of uncertainties as mentioned.The reliability of this novel algorithm has been compared with other existing anomaly detection algorithms such as Gaussian, binary association rule and fuzzy association rule by using sensor data from various domains such as rainfall, temperature and cancer cell data. Receiver operating characteristic curves are used for comparing the performance of our proposed BRBAR with the aforementioned algorithms. The comparisons demonstrate that BRBAR is more accurate and reliable in detecting anomalies from sensor data under uncertainty. Hence, the use of such algorithm to feed the decision-making systems could be beneficial. Therefore, we have used this algorithm to feed appropriate sensor data to our recently developed belief-rule-based expert system to predict flooding in an area. Consequently, the reliability and the accuracy of the flood prediction system increase significantly. Such novel algorithm (BRBAR) can be used in other areas of applications.