The diversity of small mobile devices and networks enabling users to access the Internet
expands every day. In this highly dynamic environment of Ubiquitous Computing, current …

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is focused on building loosely coupled distributed
systems with minimal shared understanding among system components. The main building …

Mass spectrometry proteomics data contain much information about cell functions and
disease conditions. The discovery of such information is enabled by the combined use of …

With the increasing popularity of deploying web services, quality of service (QoS) becomes a
significant concern for service consumers and providers for service selection. However …

Trends in video coding technology have included the coding of arbitrarily shaped objects
and the improvement of the robustness of video bitstreams when subjected to errors during …

Semantic Grid applications based on the cooperation of Grid Services need semantic
modeling tools and functions to access and manage ontologies stored on the Grid. Although …

In business-to-business collaboration, one of the most important issues is privacy and trust.
Adequate access control solutions may give a business and its partners the vital possibility …

Esta última década foi cenário de grandes transformações, dentre estas destaca-se a
revolução social que a Internet está promovendo, alterando a forma como as pessoas …

B2B registries are information systems to register B2B related business information such as
companies' profiles, business documents, business processes, and services and to provide …