Screen content, which is often computer-generated, has many characteristics distinctly
different from conventional camera-captured natural scene content. Such characteristic …

Crowdsourcing enables one to leverage on the intelligence and wisdom of potentially large
groups of individuals toward solving problems. Common problems approached with …

Purpose E-learning has become an increasingly prevalent learning approach in higher
educational institutions due to the fast growth of internet technologies in India. This paper …

Web services are a consolidated reality of the modern Web with tremendous, increasing
impact on everyday computing tasks. They turned the Web into the largest, most accepted …

As computing infrastructure expands, resource management in a large, heterogeneous, and
distributed environment becomes a challenging task. In a cloud environment, with …

The proliferation of networked devices, systems, and applications that we depend on every
day makes managing networks more important than ever. The increasing security …

The current cloud market is dominated by a few providers, which offer cloud services in a
take‐it‐or‐leave‐it manner. However, the dynamism and uncertainty of cloud environments …

High-profile and often destructive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to be
one of the top security concerns as the DDoS attacks volumes are increasing constantly …

Cloud computing is providing IT services to its customer based on Service level agreements
(SLAs). It is important for cloud service providers to provide reliable Quality of service (QoS) …

Smart cities generally aim at efficiently organizing and managing city resources through a
digital layer on top of the legacy infrastructure. As the digitalization trend goes on with an …