The Internet has become the standard infrastructure for all kinds of communications. At the same time, the emergence of cloud computing and web services has significantly strengthened requirements for the Internet to display greater robustness to disruptions and higher flexibility to support...

Citizen sensor networks are open information systems in which members of the public act as information providers. The information distributed in such networks ranges from observations of events (e.g. noise measurements or monitoring of environmental parameters) to probabilistic estimates (e.g....

Lifelong User Modelling is an area that aims at harvesting the massive volume of web-based user information, so that it can be used for educational long-term services. Although an amount of research has addressed this issue from an educational angle, by finding ways for educational peer systems...

The open and dynamic nature of modern distributed systems and pervasive environments presents significant challenges to security management. One solution may be trust management which utilises the notion of trust in order to specify and interpret security policies and make decisions on...

Cloud computing – where elastic computing resources are delivered over the Internet by external service providers – is generating significant interest within HE and FE. In the cloud computing business model, organisations or individuals contract with a cloud computing service provider on a...

Statistical data, such as in the form of microdata, is used by different organisations as a basis for creating knowledge to assist in their planning and decision-making activities.However, before microdata can be made available for analysis, it needs to be anonymised in order to protect the...

In the year 2008, world markets suffered a huge economic crisis. The extent of the economic crisis has been so severe and has had a global impact. As a contingency strategy, governments of wealthy nations have resorted to extensive bailouts and rescue packages to stop organisations from going...

Data mining has become a commonly used method for the analysis of organisationaldata, for purposes of summarizing data in useful ways and identifying non-trivialpatterns and relationships in the data. Given the large volumes of data that arecollected by business, government, non-government and...

Computational Intelligence has found a challenging testbed for various paradigms inthe financial sector. Extensive research has resulted in numerous financial applicationsusing neural networks and evolutionary computation, mainly genetic algorithms andgenetic programming. More recent advances in...