—Within collaborative computing, computer mediated communications are evolving rapidly thanks to the development of new technologies. The facilitation of awareness and discovery ...
—In this paper, we present a collaborative social networking environment, referred to as Quality Social Network (QSN), which enhances the social tagging paradigm by using it as a...
— Video streaming on mobile devices such as PDA’s, laptop PCs, pocket PCs and cell phones is becoming increasingly popular. These mobile devices are typically constrained by th...
Piyush Parate, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Suchendra M. B...
— Sharing personal information and documents is pervasive in Web 2.0 environments, which creates the need for properly controlling shared data. Most existing authorization and po...
Nitya Vyas, Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Chih-Cheng C...
- Peer-to-peer (P2P) offers good solutions for many applications such as large data sharing and collaboration. Thus, it appears as a powerful paradigm to develop scalable distribut...
Stainam N. Brandao, Ricardo T. Silva, Jano M. Souz...
—The concept of groups is a natural aspect of most collaboration scenarios. Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing models (g-SIS) have been recently proposed in which users and...
Ram Krishnan, Ravi S. Sandhu, Jianwei Niu, William...
The need for collaboration and information sharing has been recently growing dramatically with the convergence of outsourcing and offshoring, the increasing need to cut costs thro...
—Sensing coverage and network connectivity are two fundamental issues in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Due to resource constraints of sensor nodes, it may not be possible, or ...
Abstract—Nodes within existing P2P networks typically exchange periodic keep-alive messages in order to maintain network connections between neighbours. This paper investigates a...
— Social Web Application (SWA) design and development is a complex process that requires the understanding and coordination of several domains of knowledge. Yet there remain few ...