Current security mechanisms are not suitable for organisations that outsource their data management to untrusted servers. Encrypting and decrypting sensitive data at the client si...
This paper describes an exploratory field study on the adoption of Application Service Provisioning (ASP) in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Rooted in Merton’s Motiva...
Scalability is said to be one of the major advantages brought by the cloud paradigm and, more specifically, the one that makes it different to an “advanced outsourcing” solu...
Luis M. Vaquero, Luis Rodero-Merino, Rajkumar Buyy...
In many applications, association rules will only be interesting if they represent non-trivial correlations between all constituent items. Numerous techniques have been developed ...
Manufacturing companies that are expanding their product offering to cover also lifecycle services in the customers’ facilities are facing the increasing complexity and risk to ...