Background Patient-centered health care information systems (PHSs) enable patients to
take control and become knowledgeable about their own health, preferably in a secure …

In order to cope with disaster situations properly, it is very important to identify the disaster
scale and provide the accurate information of the site to the appropriate authorities including …

The growing deployment of Internet services in cloud data centers significantly increases the
grid energy cost of cloud providers. Considering the environmental effect, many of current …

HDFS is a popular open-source system for scalable and reliable file management, which is
designed as a general-purpose solution for distributed file storage. While it works well for …

User-generated travelogues have contributed abundant location representative information
(eg attracting scenic spots, activities, and local customs), which can greatly facilitate people …

Today many documents are held in parallel as electronic files and as paper based
documents. Keeping the properties of both versions in sync is important to assure …

There has been an exponential growth of the multimedia data shared through Internet, and
managing this amount of information has become a great provocation. Classical Peer-to …

Most loan evaluation methods in peer-to-peer (P2P) lending mainly exploit the borrowers'
credit information. However, the present study presents the maturity-based lender …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks offer a cost-effective and easily deployable framework for
sharing content. However, P2P file-sharing applications face a fundamental problem of …

Cloud computing has been adopted as an efficient computing infrastructure model for
provisioning resources and providing services to users. Several distributed resource models …