Integrating environmental considerations into supply-chain management has become one of the major concerns to the industry and researchers. However, supply chains still have to deal with the challenges of effectiveness and cost efficiency. RFID is one of the contemporary technologies which have...

A system that implements the byzantine agreement algorithm is supposed to be very reliable and robust because of its fault tolerating feature. For very realistic environments, byzantine agreement protocols becomes inadequate, because they are based on the assumption that failures are controlled...

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...