Today, the Web is increasingly used as a platform for distributed services, which transcend organizational boundaries to form federated applications. Consequently, there is a grow...
Abstract. The explosive evolution of pervasive computing environments presents several new challenges such as smart spaces, invisibility, localized scalability, and masking uneven ...
For nearest neighbor search, a user queries a server for nearby points of interest (POIs) with his/her location information. Our aim is to protect the user’s sensitive informatio...
Abstract. Lately, grid research has focused its attention on interoperability and standards, such as Grid Services, in order to facilitate resource virtualization, and to accommoda...
In the past, many attempts have been made to improve the interoperability between different Web-based information systems. In most approaches the remaining problems are still twof...