Today globally distributed software development has become the norm for many organizations and the popularity of implementing such an approach continues to increase. In these circ...
Abstract: Ambient Intelligence (AmI) has emerged in the past 10 years as a multidisciplinary field within ubiquitous computing, attracting considerable research, funding and publi...
: With the spreading of embedded and mobile devices, public-key cryptography has become an important feature for securing communication and protecting personal data. However, the c...
In a component-based development approach system integration generally implies the packaging and deployment of a group of software components on hardware units, possibly hiding th...
—Popular web services and applications such as Google Apps, DropBox, and Go.Pc introduce a wasteful imbalance of processing resources. Each host operated by a provider serves hun...