Web Services have experienced great interest during the last years as they were expected to play a key role as enablers of seamless application-to-application integration both wit...
As wireless communication advances, research on location-based services using mobile devices has attracted interest, which provides information and services related to user’s phy...
The issue of confidentiality and privacy in general databases has become increasingly prominent in recent years. A key element in preserving privacy and confidentiality of sensi...
Program instrumentation, inserted either before or during execution, is rapidly becoming a necessary component of many systems. Instrumentation is commonly used to collect informa...
Resource management is a key concern for implementing effective Grid middleware and shielding application developers from low level details. Existing resource managers concentrat...