Cloud computing is undoubtedly the present and the future of software applications; cloud service discovery, composition and execution are becoming more popular and operations easier. However the significant growth in cloud infrastructures, developme...

Whereas Internet technologies seem to facilitate the information flow between entities, several concerns have been raised about the risks connected to the misuse of the data that belongs either to organizations or to individuals. In fact, collaborati...

In a SOA context, enterprises can use workflow technologies to orchestrate available business processes and their corresponding services and apply business rules or policies to control how they can be used and who can use them. This approach becomes ...

Selecting IT services in the cloud based on security requirements is a difficult task in current marketplaces/app stores. The impact of this can be two-fold, from the user’s side trustworthiness will be hard to discern and from the malevolent service...

SOA is a technology-independent architecture concept adhering to the principle of  service-orientation. It aims at enabling the development and usage of applications that are built by combining autonomous, interoperable, discoverable, and potentially...