Big data drive multidimensional convergence and profound innovations among industries
and provide novel ways of exploring the world. As they significantly create economic and …

Cloud computing provides computing platforms and facilitates to optimize utilization of
infrastructure resources, reduces deployment time and increases flexibility. The popularity of …

The expanding cloud computing services offer great opportunities for consumers to find the
best service and best pricing. Meanwhile, it also raises new challenges for consumers who …

Query authentication has been extensively studied to ensure the integrity of query results for
outsourced databases, which are often not fully trusted. However, access control, another …

In a cloud computing environment, there are many providers offering various services of
different quality attributes. Selecting a cloud service that meets user requirements from such …

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are a type of network, which have caused widespread
concern. Researchers have done many research on security and reliability of information …

Integrity audit technology is proposed to protect data in remote cloud servers from being
tampered with. However, the challenge is that the computational complexity is too large for …

Scientific research achievements play a positive role in the promotion of social development.
Scholarly big data include scholars' scientific research, experimental data, and their own …

On demand provisioning with an acceptable pricing scheme of cloud computing attracts user
to enter in to the cloud arena. In this paradigm, there are many cloud service providers …

Cloud computing is a prominently distributed paradigm that offers a wide variety of
infrastructure, platform, and software services over the internet on demand. However, the …