The WWW has made information and services more available than ever before. Many of the first Web applications have been emulations of real world activities, in particular, e-comme...
Construction activities take place in what can be called a dynamic virtual organization (VO). VOs require a secure, reliable, scalable information infrastructure that allows collab...
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
In this paper, we explore the problem of mapping filtering services on large-scale heterogeneous platforms. Two important optimization criteria should be considered in such a fra...
The paradigm shift from device-oriented to service-oriented management has also implications to the area of event correlation. Today’s event correlation mainly addresses the cor...