Deploying and managing wide-area network services is exceptionally challenging. Despite having servers at many locations, a service provider must rely on an underlying besteffort ...
Trust is a critical issue in e-commerce and e-service environments. In some applications (such as eBay), the trust management mechanisms have been introduced to provide valuable i...
The prevalent nature of Internet makes it a well suitable medium for many new types of services such as location-based services and streaming content. Subscribers to such services ...
The web service is a main working pattern and a significant application model for next generation Internet application. The service-oriented architecture is a very promising archi...
The Internet creates an environment suitable to spatial data share, allowing the users to transmit, visualize, manipulate and interact with them. This environment not only allows n...
David Cavassana Costa, Mario Meireles Teixeira, An...