Web services (WS) have become a significant part of the Web because of such attractive features as simple to use, platform independence, and XML/SOAP support. However, these featu...
Mobile ad-hoc networks are typically very dynamic networks in terms of available communication partners, available network resources, connectivity, etc. Furthermore, the end-user ...
Thomas Plagemann, Vera Goebel, Carsten Griwodz, P&...
Social networking web sites or social networks for short (SNs) have become an important web service with a broad range of applications. In an SN, a user publishes and shares inform...
Recent years have witnessed the trend of leveraging cloudbased services for large scale content storage, processing, and distribution. Security and privacy are among top concerns ...
This paper explores the use of social annotations to improve web search. Nowadays, many services, e.g. del.icio.us, have been developed for web users to organize and share their f...