Presence awareness, that is the awareness of what distant colleagues are doing and their availability for interaction, plays a key role for coping with the lack of physical proxim...
We present a novel hybrid communication protocol that guarantees mobile users' k-anonymity against a wide-range of adversaries by exploiting the capability of handheld devices...
Existing privacy-preserving evolutionary algorithms are limited to specific problems securing only cost function evaluation. This lack of functionality and security prevents thei...
—Collaborations by the use of inter-organizational business processes can help companies to achieve a competitive edge over competing businesses. Typically, these collaborations ...
—Current multimedia application deployment tends to rely on composable service systems, where a complex multimedia service can be composed dynamically from multiple simpler ones ...