This book analyzes the latest advances in privacy, security and risk technologies within cloud environments. With contributions from leading experts, the text presents both a solid overview of the field and novel, cutting-edge research. A Glossary is also included at the end of the book. Topics and features: considers the various forensic challenges for legal access to data in a cloud computing environment; discusses privacy impact assessments for the cloud, and examines the use of cloud a...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in October 2015.The 18 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: critical information infrastructure protection; critical infrastructure resilience assessment; emergency management: critical infrastruct...

In a comprehensive approach this book covers the end-to-end process from request management to change management, error management and migration management to acceptance testing and final data clean up. It is based upon nearly twenty years of experience in tests, acceptance and certification, when introducing medium to large IT systems including complex software for administrations and industry in many countries. There exist a variety of methodologies with different characteristics having ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2015, held in Qufu, Shandong, China, in August 2015.The 36 revised full papers presented together with 5 revised short papers and 42 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 initial submissions. The papers present current trends, challenges, and state-of-the-art solutions related to various issues in wireless networks. Topics of inte...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2016, held in Dublin, Ireland, in June 2016.The 28 full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: SPI in regulated and safety critical domains; gamification and education issues in SPI; SPI in agile and small set...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2017, held in Guilin, China, in June 2017.The 70 full papers and 9 short papers presented in this book werde carefully reviewed and selected from 238 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as cognitive radio networks; wireless sensor networks; cyber-physical systems; distributed and localized algorithm design and analysis; information and coding theo...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on OpenMP, held in Aachen, Germany, in October 2015.The 19 technical full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications, accelerator applications, tools, extensions, compiler and runtime, and energy.

This book presents a guide to navigating the complicated issues of quality and process improvement in enterprise software implementation, and the effect these have on the software development life cycle (SDLC). Offering an integrated approach that includes important management and decision practices, the text explains how to create successful automated solutions that fit user and customer needs, by mixing different SDLC methodologies. With an emphasis on the realities of practice, the book...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2016, held in Bozeman, MT, USA, in August 2016.The 50 full papers and 9 invited papers presented werde carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions.WASA is designed to be a forum for theoreticians, system and application designers, protocol developers and practitioners to discuss and express their views on the current trends, challenges,...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th EuroSPI conference, held in Ostrava, Czech Republic, in September 2017.The 56 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on SPI and VSEs, SPI and process models, SPI and safety, SPI and project management, SPI and implementation, SPI issues, SPI and automotive, selected key notes and workshop papers, GamifySPI, SPI in Industry 4.0, best pr...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2016, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in March/April 2016.The 30 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: security and privacy; mobile and cellular; the last mile; testbeds and frameworks; web; DNS and routing; IXPs and MPLS; and scheduling and timing.

Research into grid computing has been driven by the need to solve large-scale, increasingly complex problems for scientific applications. Yet the applications of grid computing for business and casual users did not begin to emerge until the development of the concept of cloud computing, fueled by advances in virtualization techniques, coupled with the increased availability of ever-greater Internet bandwidth. The appeal of this new paradigm is mainly based on its simplicity, and the afford...