Security of systems and services has been dominant research area in recent years as today’s cloud services, big data and networked systems, especially when they provide wireless application access where personal and confidential data to be transmitted across the networked systems. Numerous tools and technologies are available to ensure system’s security; however, external threats to computer sy...

Over the coming years, many are anticipating grid computing infrastructure, utilities and services to become an integral part of future socioeconomical fabric. Though, the realisation of such a vision will be very much affected by a host of factors including; cost of access, reliability, dependability and security of grid services. In earnest, autonomic computing model of systems’ self-adaptati...