Context: Organizations are spending an unprecedented amount of money towards the cost
of keeping Information Technology (IT) systems operational. Hence, these systems need to …

Workflow engines are commonly used to orchestrate large-scale scientific computations
such as, but not limited to weather, climate, natural disasters, food safety, and territorial …

Objective The objective of this paper is to evaluate the security behavior of healthcare
professionals in a real clinical setting. Method Standards, guidelines and recommendations …

Cloud-based storage is a popular outsourcing solution for organizations to deliver contents
to end-users. However, there is a need for contingency plans to ensure service provision …

End-to-end solutions enable users to protect their data, before sending them to the cloud,
from confidentiality violations, service outages and vendor lock-in incidents. These solutions …

Earth observation satellites produce large amounts of images/data that not only must be
processed and preserved in reliable geospatial platforms but also efficiently disseminated …

The basic concept of service oriented architecture (SOA) is used in cloud computing, internet
of things, etc. in which services may be obtained from remote places. The desired goal is …

Information dispersal is a fault-tolerant technique where files of size| F| are split into n
redundant pieces of size| F|/k that are dispersed to different servers where k pieces suffice …

Hybrid cloud storage combines cost-effective but inflexible private storage along with flexible
but premium-priced public cloud storage. As a form of concurrent sourcing, it offers flexibility …

Cloud systems, as any other system, must be reliable. This means that the system should
respond correctly in presence of failures, which are quite probable in a distributed, largely …