This paper deals with a joint use of a trust evaluation approach and access control mechanisms for improving security in Web-usage. Trust evaluation is achieved by means of both be...
Luiz Fernando Rust C. Carmo, Breno G. de Oliveira,...
The Internet network provides access to several hundreds of million sites and expands at a rate of a million pages a day. Yet, given the rapid and anarchical nature of its evoluti...
Abstract Even the best information retrieval model cannot always identify the most useful answers to a user query. This is in particular the case with web search systems, where it ...
Abstract— In this paper, we present a novel and comprehensive resource management solution for the autonomous hot-spot convergence system (AHSCS) that uses sensor web. This solut...
Adaptation to changing environmental conditions is a major challenge for most distributed applications. The service-oriented programming paradigm leads to an increasing number of ...