This paper proposes a context-aware museum-guide system, which is able to present information on exhibits in accordance with visitor needs. Other features of the system include planning and directing a visit as well as providing locations, facilities and additional services. The architecture is...

This article presents a modified genetic algorithm for text document clustering on the cloud. Traditional approaches of genetic algorithms in document clustering represents chromosomes based on cluster centroids, and does not divide cluster centroids during crossover operations. This limits the...

Assigning multiple virtual network resources to physical network resources, called virtual network embedding (VNE), is known to be non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard) problem. Currently software-defined networking (SDN) is gaining popularity in enterprise networks to improve the...

This article aims to examine the main factors that may hinder or facilitate the adoption of cloud computing (CC) services by higher educational institutions in developing countries, exemplified here by Oman. A conceptual model was developed through extending the...

The expenses in the sustenance of IT investments has become a major ledger item in businesses to the extent that in some cases business priorities had to be changed for sustaining IT systems. Cloud computing, a disruptive technology, is changing the sustenance model with on-demand and metered...

Composite services are regarded as essential components of a cloud-based manufacturing (CM) system. Different classes of disruptive events which are rooted in the uncertainties of the supply and demand sides of CM threaten the resilience and continuity of the composite services over time. The...

Cloud users can have access to the service based on “pay as you go.” The daily increase of cloud users may decrease the performance, the availability and the profitability of the material and software resources used in cloud service. These challenges were solved by several load balancing...

This article presents a cloud-based framework that thwarts the DOM-based XSS vulnerabilities caused due to the injection of advanced HTML5 attack vectors in the HTML5 web applications. Initially, the framework collects the key modules of web application, extracts the suspicious HTML5 strings...

The Cloud E-Learning Systems for the Arabic language are relevant environments in many areas of training (teaching Arabic language) but also pose problems related to their creation tedious, costly in resources and time, and problems related to the search for information because of the increasing...

Datawarehouses can be extremely large and ressource demanding, which is not always affordable in a local environment. Hence, in order to deal with the big amounts of data held in the datawarehouses, Cloud warehousing seems to be the solution. On the other hand, many entreprises use...