Special Issue: Trust Management

Special Issue

Special : Security and Trust Management

Guest Editorial: Special issue on privacy and trust management in cloud and distributed systems

W ITH the continuous drive towards availability of data and services anytime anywhere, privacy risks have significantly increased. We are now witnessing vast amounts of privacy-sensitive data being collected, sometimes unintentionally, in a myriad of different types of networks. Unauthorized disclosure, modification, usage, or denial of access to these data may result in high human and financia...

Special issue on Digital Information Management

Nowadays, most of the society activities and business models are driven by the unprecedented evolution of data acquisition technologies together with advances in computing and communications. This has resulted in an explosive growth in the number, size, diversity of potentially useful digital information sources of various types (image, audio, video, ...) in several application domains, such as...

Special issue on agent-mediated knowledge management

The main goal of Knowledge Management (KM) is to provide relevant knowledge to assist users in executing knowledge intensive tasks. That is, KM aims at facilitating an environment where work critical information can be created, structured, shared, distributed and used. To be effective, KM must provide users with relevant knowledge, at the right time and in the right form, that enables users to ...