Internet technologies are widely recognized for their promise asenablers of collaborative computing both within and among organizations.The presence of heterogeneous systems based on different technologicalplatforms in organizations makes the implementation of networkcollaboration very complex....

Since the Morris worm was released in 1988, Internet worms continue to be one of top security threats. For example, the Conficker worm infected 9 to 15 million machines in early 2009 and shut down the service of some critical government and medical networks. Moreover, it constructed a massive...

Since the Morris worm was released in 1988, Internet worms continue to be one of top security threats. For example, the Conficker worm infected 9 to 15 million machines in early 2009 and shut down the service of some critical government and medical networks. Moreover, it constructed a massive...

The trend of UK logistics warehouses is reported towards larger and more centralized systems on which automation is heavily invested in recent years. This is partially because of the disadvantage of manual operation resulting in the slow storage and retrieval speed, the high labor cost, and the...