Computing

The impact of energy consumption on the environment and the economy is raising awareness of “green” software engineering. HADAS is an eco-assistant that makes developers aware of the influence of their designs and implementations on the energy …

In the face of an untrusted cloud infrastructure, outsourced data needs to be protected. We present EPiC, a practical protocol for the privacy-preserving evaluation of a fundamental operation on data sets: frequency counting. In an encrypted …

Cloud service providers typically compose their services from a number of elementary services, which are developed in-house or built by third-party providers. Personalization of composite services in mobile environments is an interesting and …

Rough set theory (RST) can be viewed as one of the classical set theory for handling with imprecision knowledge. The theory has discovered applications in numerous areas, for example, engineering, industries, environment and others. Churn in …

The existing content-based recommendation methods have two major limitations. First, due to the defects of the items and the user model matching algorithms, the recommendation results are very narrow. Second, scant attention is paid to the …