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Some companies are willing to execute their business processes (BP) in the cloud for enjoying its benefits. However, they are also reluctant because of the new security risks that using cloud resources introduces. Security risk includes many dimensions, but this work focus on preserving the privacy of the logic of a BP deployed in a multi-cloud context by preventing a coalition of malicious clouds...
In this paper we present a new, very large, rich, Comprehensive Scholarly Corpus (CompScholarCorp) as a platform and data source for future research. Our corpus contains records of 1,044,454 papers, 472,365 unique authors, and substantial publication meta-data for each record. We have integrated the data we collected from 276 publishers using a uniform and consistent XML data format within the corpus...
Cloud for Europe (C4E) is a project that aims at creating new Cloud workflows, named Service Flow (SF), for Public Administrations (PAs). These Services must guarantees on one hand to preserve national authorities, and on the other hand to promote efficiency, collaboration and harmonization for European PA bodies. This is possible by means of the creation of a Digital Market where PAs can select the...
The increasing collection and use of sensitive datasets in science, coupled with the need for inter-institutional collaboration, poses new challenges for infrastructure and administrative models. While enclaves, such as CLOUD KOTTA, provide for the secure management and analysis of data, they do not yet support the administrative models needed by today's researcher practices. Current approaches often...
Due to the sustained and rapid growth of information and communication technology (ICT) and automation techniques, smart factories for high-end equipment manufacturing involve extensive collaborative networks and knowledge sets. Conventional manufacturing modes are undergoing profound reforms in the Internet and Big Data era, and operations management of such factories should lay more emphasis on...
Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are the key enabling for industrial businesses and economic growth. With the introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the manufacturing environment, CPPS have a huge potential in terms of new business opportunities, mostly known as the 4th Industrial Revolution. The paper presents a CPPS architecture achieved within the European R&D project SelSus,...
The Internet of Things (IoT) considers interconnected things e.g., devices that consumes web services through the internet. Such kind of devices may vary from smart phones, smart TVs, medical devices or industrial devices. Thanks to the development of the ICT field, many standards supports the existence of the IoT devices: HTTP (Hypertext Transferring Protocol), MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport),...
Current technologies to include cloud computing, social networking, mobile applications and crowd and synthetic intelligence, coupled with the explosion in storage and processing power, are evolving massive-scale marketplaces for a wide variety of resources and services. They are also enabling unprecedented forms and levels of collaborations among human and machine entities. In this new era, trust...
Access control (AC) is critical for preventing sensitive information from unauthorized access. Various AC systems have been proposed and enforced in different types of information systems (e.g., bank and military). However, existing AC systems cannot thoroughly address the challenges in emerging distributed processing systems (DPS), such as Big Data (BD) and Cloud, due to their dynamic and complex...
Collaboration in business environments is an ongoing trend that is enabled by and based on cloud computing. It supports flexible and ad-hoc reconfiguration and integration of different services, which are provided and used via the internet, and implemented within business processes. This is an important competitive advantage for the participating stakeholders. However, trust, policy compliance, and...
Federation is generally used to denote collaboration between IT systems in different administrative domains to achieve common goals. Different administrative domains are typically distinct and loosely coupled by definition. While domains may have some degree of self-awareness, their awareness of other domains may be weak or non-existent. Hence, there is a fundamental challenge concerning how to build...
With the wide adoption of the Internet, organizations establish collaborative networks to execute Collaborative Business Processes (CBPs). Current approaches of Process-Aware Information Systems (PAISs) to implement and execute CBPs have shortcomings: high costs and complexity of IT infrastructure to deploy the PAISs; poor support for autonomy, decentralization, global view of message exchange and...
Computation offloading is a key technique to enhance the performance and interactivity of mobile application through migrating the computation-intensive tasks to the cloud. However, efficient offloading is challenging in practice in that a mobile application often consists of computation tasks that have dependency with execution order constraints as well as parallel tasks that can be executed non-deterministically...
Cloud-based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Platform is a tendency to facilitate collaboration across Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the industrial supply chain. However, fast and smooth accessibility to the cloud resource is a vital challenge due to efficiency, reliability, security and other critical issues. This paper presents the development of a mobile application by using web...
For the realization of flexible, reconfigurable manufacturing and logistics facilities, heterogeneous, autonomous, and interconnected intralogistics systems are being deployed on the shop-floor. However, the distributed and often emerging nature of such systems makes their design and integration into existing processes a rather complex engineering task that requires a lot of coordination from all...
A novel, generic, framework for supporting self-organisation and self-management in hierarchical systems is presented. The framework allows for the incorporation of local self-organising and self-managing strategies at each level in the hierarchy. These local strategies determine the behaviour of that level and the effects of these strategies can be communicated to, and used by, the strategies in...
Smart buildings are run by Building Management Systems (BMS)that are cyber-physical systems that control and monitor a numberof buildings’ subsystems. BMS have not been sufficiently prioritizedon their reliability measures. Reliability, however, along withsecurity, safety, energy performance and occupant comfort, are veryimportant for certain classes of BMS [1]. This is especially true forBMS of critical...
Computing resources including mobile devices at the edge of a network are increasingly connected and capable of collaboratively processing what's believed to be too complex to them. Collaboration possibilities with today's feature-rich mobile devices go far beyond simple media content sharing, traditional video conferencing and cloud-based software as a services. The realization of these possibilities...
As cloud computing becomes increasingly popular, cloud providers compete to offer the same or similar services over the Internet. Quality of Service (QoS), which describes how well a service is performed, is an important differentiator among functionally equivalent services. As a result, how to help users to find cloud services that meet their QoS requirements becomes an important problem. In this...
The development of applications based on services offered by different, not conscious, providers, is expected to be growing in the next years. In order to offer effectively multicloud applications, many challenges still need to be faced. At this aim, the MUSA framework provides a DevOps approach to develop multi-cloud applications with desired Security Service Level Agreements (SLAs). This paper describes...
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