We introduce three new mechanisms that allow trust to be built into cloud computing called the Private Virtual Infrastructure (PVI), the Locator Bot (LoBot), and the Trusted Virtual Environment Module (TVEM). Cloud computing requires that organizations trust that a service provider’s platforms...

Personalization approaches have become popular as content providers have attempted to provide features that differentiate their sites from the sites of competitors while enhancing usability. For instance, the Google and MSN news pages offer the ability to modify the content and size of news...

Process models are often the basis for demonstrating improvement and compliance in software engineering organizations. A descriptive model is a type of process model describing the human activities in software development that actually occur. The purpose of a descriptive model is to provide a...

Organizations and companies often need to share data for data mining. However, there are concerns of privacy breaches of the shared data which might have legal and strategic consequences for owners of the data. There has been a rich literature on privacy preserving data mining methods that can...