Embracing service-oriented architectures in the context of large systems, such as the Web, rises a set of new and challenging issues: increased size and load in terms of users and...
NAND flash-based solid state drives have emerged as revolutionary storage media during recent years. However, the wide-spread of SSD technology is currently obstructed by the fac...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) storage is a promising technology to provide users with cheap and online persistence. However, due the instability of these infrastructures, P2P storage systems...
Abstract. Privacy becomes a major concern for both customers and enterprises in today’s corporate marketing strategies, many research efforts have been put into developing new p...
—Making use of the World Wide Web’s numerous services increasingly requires the disclosure of personal user data. While these data represent an important value for service prov...