Globalisation is a fairly broad term that describes the phenomena of the 'local' turning into the 'global', or the coming together of different aspects of the world into a single and identifiable state. While the term globalisation may have at first been strictly applied to the international...

Globalisation, the unavoidable process which the world entered, is affecting everyone of us in different ways. Globalization means growing permeability of all the boundaries such as time and space, national and state borders, borders of economy, branches and organizations and less tangible...

Online storage service providers such as Amazon S3 grant a way for companies, particularly startups, to avoid spending resources on maintaining their own in-house storage infrastructure and thereby allowing them to focus on their core business activities. These providers however follow a fixed,...

Key Management is a critical security service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It is an essential cryptographic primitive upon which other security primitives are built. The most critical security requirements in WSNs include authentication and confidentiality. These security requirements can...

Multi-sided platforms (MSPs), which bring together two or more interdependent groups of customers, have recently risen to economic and business prominence in many industries. This paper first lays out a simple micro-founded framework which aims to organize academic and managerial thinking about...

Mappings in most federated databases are conceptualized and implemented as black-box transformations between source schemas and a federated schema. This approach does not allow specific mappings to be declared once and reused in other situations. We present an alternative approach, in which...

With the emerging trend ofWeb 3.0 and the resulting huge amount of usergenerated semantically-enriched data, improved ways of knowledge visualization and human computer interaction are needed. We present several techniques of visualizing particularly spatial knowledge in largely scalable, clear...

This ICB Research Report constitutes the proceedings of the first workshop on Monitoring, Adaptation and Beyond (MONA+ 2008), which was held on December 13, 2008 in Madrid, Spain. MONA+ has been collocated with the ServiceWave 2008 conference.