Cloud computing has emerged as a preferred platform for deploying scalable web-applications. With the growing scale of these applications and the data associated with them, scalab...
Abiteboul et al. initiated the systematic study of distributed XML documents consisting of several logical parts, possibly located on different machines. The physical distributio...
The availability of inexpensive wireless networking hardware (e.g., based on the IEEE 802.11 standards) has generated interest in a large class of wireless applications. Many appl...
: In ubiquitous environments computers and smart devices, especially the technical view on them, disappear and users are supported to concentrate on the tasks they actually intend ...
Effective security management depends upon good risk management, which is itself based upon a reliable risk assessment, involving data collection of all the facets influencing sys...