Abstract. Mashups are defined to be lightweight Web applications aggregating data from different Web services, built using ad-hoc composition and being not concerned with long term...
The widespread adoption of location-based services (LBS) raises increasing concerns for the protection of personal location information. A common strategy, referred to as obfuscati...
Maria Luisa Damiani, Elisa Bertino, Claudio Silves...
Online social network sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and others have grown rapidly, with hundreds of millions of active users. A new feature on many sites is social applications...
Andrew Besmer, Heather Richter Lipford, Mohamed Sh...
Software that covertly monitors a user’s actions, also known as spyware, has become a first-level security threat due to its ubiquity and the difficulty of detecting and remov...
Debra L. Cook, Ricardo A. Baratto, Angelos D. Kero...
Distributed writable storage systems typically provide NFS-like semantics and unbounded persistence for files. We claim that for planetary-scale distributed services such facilit...