One of the promises of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is to build complex added-value services in order to enhance and extend existing ones. Service-Based Applications (S...
An increasing number of providers are offering utility computing services which require users to pay only when they use. Most of these providers currently charge users for metere...
Privacy preservation has recently received considerable attention for location-based mobile services. Various location cloaking approaches have been proposed to protect the locati...
International standardization in information representation, organization, and dissemination are meant to eliminate the discrepancies in communication among participating organiza...
Sensor networks face a number of challenges when deployed in unpredictable environments under dynamic, quickly changeable demands, and when shared by many partners, which is often...
Lei Chen 0005, Zijian Wang, Boleslaw K. Szymanski,...