Collaborative systems such as Grids provide efficient and scalable access to distributed
computing capabilities and enable seamless resource sharing between users and platforms …

With the advent of CMOS cameras, it is now possible to make compact, cheap and low-
power image sensors capable of on-board image processing. These embedded vision …

Collaborative systems such as Grids provide efficient and scalable access to distributed
computing capabilities and enable seamless resource sharing between users and platforms …

Due to physical and logical vulnerabilities, a critical infrastructure (CI) can encounter failures
of various degrees of severity, and since there are many interdependencies between CIs …

In multi-domain service-based systems, services from different domains are composed
together to accomplish critical tasks. In these systems, data flow from one domain to another …

Cloud computing has become a popular computing paradigm in which virtualized and
scalable resources are consolidated to provide services over Internet. However, the …

Decentralized execution settings are primordial for most processes where process
participants are required to establish P2P interactions. This is particularly true for processes …

We consider an IoT system where IoT devices are ubiquitous, distributed all over the
environment. When some situation arises dynamically, the IoT services may collaborate to …

Nowadays, various promising paradigms of distributed computing over the Internet, such as
Grids, P2P and Clouds, have emerged for resource sharing and collaboration. To enable …

Role based access control (RBAC) has been used extensively in practice since it naturally
capturing the structure of the users in an organization. It is especially useful in multi-tenant …