Abstract. There is growing interest in large-scale resource sharing with emerging architectures such as cloud computing, where globally distributed and commoditized resources can b...
The basic idea behind cloud computing is that resource providers offer elastic resources to end users. In this paper, we intend to answer one key question to the success of cloud c...
The term online reputation addresses trust relationships amongst agents in dynamic open systems. These can appear as ratings, recommendations, referrals and feedback. Several repu...
The effort in software process support has focused so far on modeling and enacting processes. A certain amount of work has been done, but little has reached a satisfactory level o...
—Despite many technology advances, the limited computing power of sensors encumber them from taking part in service-oriented architectures. In recent years, the sensornetworking ...