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...

Our modern society depends on consumerism in order to match products and services with the people who need them; however, in its current form this process often comes at great expense to the finite resources of the environment. In addition, the global economy has created work places where...