eng Maamar, Zakaria Asim, Muhammad Boukadi, Khouloud Baker, Thar Saeed, Saad Guidara, Ikbel Yahya, Fadwa Ugljanin, Emir Benslimane, Djamal 2020 Abstract: In the context of an Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystem, this paper discusses two necessary stages for managing federations of things. The first stage defines things in terms of duties and non-functional properties that define the quality of these duties. And, the second stage uses these properties to assign appropriate things to future federations. Specialized into ad hoc and planned, federations are expected to satisfy needs and requirements of real-life situations like traffic control that arise at run-time. A set of experiments using a mix of real and simulated datasets, demonstrate the technical doability of thing assignment to federations and are presented in the paper, as well. Keywords: Federation, IoT, Quality-of-Things, Assignment application/pdf 1168688 bytes https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:33337 doi:10.1007/s10586-020-03047-9 ISSN: 1386-7857 Towards a Quality-of-Thing based approach for assigning things to federations info:eu-repo/semantics/article All rights reserved Cluster Computing 23