Web service composition enables seamless and dynamic integration of business applications on the web. The performance of the composed application is determined by the performance ...
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Numerous recent papers have found important relationships between network structure and risks within networks. These results indicate that network structure can dramatically affec...
Paul Hines, Seth Blumsack, E. Cotilla Sanchez, C. ...
In this paper we develop, implement and evaluate an approach to quickly reassign resources for a virtualized utility computing platform. The approach provides this platform agilit...
Wei Zhang, Hangwei Qian, Craig E. Wills, Michael R...
In an attribute-based signature (ABS), users sign messages with any predicate of their attributes issued from an attribute authority. Under this notion, a signature attests not to...
Jin Li, Man Ho Au, Willy Susilo, Dongqing Xie, Kui...