Web Services have experienced great interest during the last years as they were expected to act as enablers of seamless application-to-application integration both within company ...
Since more networking technologies and communication channels have been developed, Internet users have moved their roles from being strictly information consumers to both informat...
In some application domains as composite software, ranging from search engines, to more general applications, like cooperative and distributed applications or e-business and e-comm...
The Semantic Web, which represents a web of knowledge, offers new opportunities to search for knowledge and information. To harvest such search power requires robust and scalable ...
As privacy becomes a major concern for both consumers and enterprises, many research efforts have been devoted to the development of privacy protecting technology. We recently pr...