The basic tenet of Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is the possibility of building distributed
applications on the Web by using Web Services as fundamental building blocks. The …

In today's fast paced, infocentric environment, professionals increasingly rely on networked
information technology to do business. Unfortunately, with the advent of such technology …

Power consumption is an important design parameter for embedded and portable systems.
Software-controlled (or dynamic) power management (DPM) has recently emerged as an …

With the popularity of voting systems in cyberspace, there is growing evidence that current
voting systems can be manipulated by fake votes. This problem has attracted many …

In a federation of heterogeneous nodes that organize themselves, the lack of a trusted third
party does not allow establishing a priori trust relationships among strangers. Automated …

Identity based negotiations are convenient protocols to closely control users' personal data,
that empower users to negotiate the trust of unknown counterparts by carefully governing the …

Trust Negotiation has shown to be a successful, policy-driven approach for automated trust
establishment, through the release of digital credentials. Current real applications require …

Modern Critical Infrastructures (CIs)(power grids, power plants, gas and oil pipelines, etc.)
are strongly interconnected at the national and international levels nowadays. The failure of …

Cognitive Radio (CR) is a novel wireless technology communication that allows for adaptive
configuration of the reception parameters of a terminal, based on the information collected …

Self-integrating systems dynamically seek out external systems to help meet their local and
global goals. To perform the integration, the systems must alter their behavior given their …