One important task of semantic web portals is to offer both end users and applications a seamless access to knowledge contained in heterogeneous data sources in specific user commu...
Embedded software is becoming more flexible and adaptable, which presents new challenges for management of highly constrained system resources. Software dynamic translation is a t...
A central security requirement for grid computing can be referred to as behaviour conformity. This is an assurance that ad hoc related principals (users, platforms or instruments)...
In a catalogue for computer-based models the basic problem is that complex interdependencies between models must be addressed, which are dependent on an application's domain....
In this paper, we propose a new efficient and secure micro-payment scheme, named e-coupons, which can provide the users the facility of delegating their spending capability to oth...