Privacy has emerged as a key concern for business and social computing as security
breaches have compromised personal data for millions. Despite this, much of existing work …

Privacy has been frequently identified as a main concern for system developers while
dealing with/managing personal information. Despite this, most existing work on privacy …

Integrating security concerns throughout the whole software development process is one of
today's challenges in software and requirements engineering research. A challenge that so …

We describe a framework for top-down centralized self-adaptive MASs where adaptive
agents are “protocol-driven” and adaptation consists in runtime protocol switch. Protocol …

New information systems and recent applications (grid computing, Web Services, and so on)
are often distributed, large-scale, open, heterogeneous, and characterized by a dynamic …

This paper covers intrusion detection and security information management technologies. It
presents a primer on intrusion detection, focusing on data sources and analysis techniques …

Compared with smart spaces addressed previously, the smart vehicle space is quite special.
First, unlike room, it is a high mobile space. Second, it requires frequent information …

In recent years a set of production paradigms were proposed in order to allow companies
the possibility to face the new market requirements and needs, such as the new demand for …

Open Distributed Systems, be it the Internet, peer-to-peer systems, e-commerce systems,
Desktop Grid Systems, wireless sensor networks, or vehicular ad-hoc networks, have …

Adaptive organisation-centred multi-agent systems can dynamically modify their
organisational components to better accomplish their goals. Our research line proposes an …