To enjoy the benefits of cloud computing, it is necessary to select the providers whose offer best fits user's needs, carefully evaluating features and pricing. Currently, the choice of a cloud computing vendor is really difficult because it needs to map ...
Web service recommendation has been an urgent task with the wide adoption of services in cloud computing and enterprise information systems, and Quality of Service (QoS) prediction takes a critical role. In this paper, based on probabilistic matrix ...
Prosumer service provision is characterised by the creation, composition and sharing of services by non–expert users. Among the various creation strategies, rule–based service composition offers many advantages for prosumers. Variability in service ...
Pervasive future internet networks enable housekeeping scenarios to provide intelligent services to a wide population. Among these scenarios, there is a strategy to experiment from the human–centric perspective, whereby the users, and not universal ...
Recently, security problems have been the focuses of cloud computing research since people worry that their data/files stored in a cloud system may be illegally accessed. Also, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) has been widely employed to protect ...
Secure access control service in cloud computing has attracted much attention recently. Attribute–based signature (ABS for simplicity) is one of important cryptographic notions which can be utilised to realise anonymous authentication and access control ...