Using virtual machines as a resource provisioning mechanism offers multiple benefits, most recently exploited by “infrastructure-as-a-service” clouds, but also poses several...
—Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides the flexibility of dynamically composing business processes in enterprise computing. However, they must be enhanced to support real...
Web-based environments typically span interactions between humans and software services. The management and automatic calculation of trust are among the key challenges of the futur...
Predominant resources for execution of any application are computational power and memory. On one side, computational power has grown many folds faster than memory capacity. On th...
—Cloud Computing, born in the e-business context, and GRID computing, originated in the e-science context, are two different but similar paradigms for managing large sets of dist...