Recent biotechnological advances, including three-dimensional microscopy and
endoscopy, virtual reality, surgical simulation, surgical robotics, and advanced …

During the last years, a continuous convergence and fusion of computing and networking
systems is stressed in the ICT research community. Context awareness appears to be a …

Mobile cloud computing is applied in multiple industries to obtain cloud‐based services by
leveraging mobile technologies. With the development of the wireless networks, defending …

The architectural vulnerability factor (AVF) of a hardware structure is the probability that a
fault in the structure will affect the output of a program. AVF captures both microarchitectural …

Cloud computing has emerged as a computational paradigm and an alternative to the
conventional computing with the aim of providing reliable, resilient infrastructure, and with …

Software components, if used properly, offer many software engineering benefits. Yet, they
also pose many original challenges starting from quality assurance and ranging to …

Providing software qualities such as availability, adaptability and maintainability to long-
running distributed applications forms a major challenge for the configuration management …

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is the state of the art distributed mobile computing
technology that has recently been gaining ground to augment the computational capabilities …

Cloud computing and ubiquitous network availability have renewed people's interest in the
thin client concept. By executing applications in virtual desktops on cloud servers, users can …

In the technology up-front world, mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are inevitable.
When computing capacity and storage need of these devices are increasing tremendously, it …