Recent trends in Internet computing have led to the popularization of many forms of virtual organizations. Examples include supply chain management, grid computing, and collaborat...
Designing a secure and dependable system is not just a technical issue, it involves also a deep analysis of the organizational and the social environment in which the system will ...
Yudistira Asnar, Paolo Giorgini, Roberto Bonato, V...
The increasing demand for and the wide adoption of mobile technologies have been witnessed in enterprise information technology (IT) environments in recent years. However, there e...
Many producers of geographic information are now disseminating their data using open web service protocols, notably those published by the Open Geospatial Consortium. There are ma...
In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...