Although blockchains are systems that are intended to survive on their own, they still may
need human intervention like other Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) architectures …

Nowadays, managers of information systems use ontologies and rules as a powerful tool to
express the desired behaviour for the system. However, the use of rules may lead to …

Security policies in information systems have grown in complexity and the emerging nature
of collaboration in business has unfolded new challenges in creating, managing and …

In upcoming ambient intelligence applications, services provided by heterogeneous and
often mobile platforms are combined to build “intelligent” environments. As these services …

In order to arrange heterogeneous simulation executions, it would be useful to have
simulation tools that enable easy and fast creation of simulation sessions employing real …

Most of the academic research on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems has been
conducted with simulation platforms because they are generally too expensive and hard to …

Context-aware computing is a well-established approach for customizing event-based
reasoning to specific business or other operational situations. In this position paper we …

In the upcoming ambient intelligence applications, services provided by heterogeneous and
often mobile platforms are combined to build intelligent environments. As these mobile …

The management of health information has shifted from the use of paper-based to
interconnected Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. The ease with which patients' …

There have been many systems available for parallel and distributed computing (PDC)
applications such as grids, clusters, super-computers, clouds, peer-to-peer and volunteer …