Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta

On the last EPBD, a new indicator to measure smart technologies in buildings has been developed: the smart readiness indicator (SRI). The SRI framework evaluates the smart...

This chapter presents what an electronic payment framework is, its main features and benefits, what the main electronic payment frameworks proposed so far are, and the current...

This article presents what an electronic payment framework is, its main features and benefits, what the main electronic payment frameworks proposed so far are and, the current...

Policy-based management of information systems enables the specification of high-level policies which need to be refined into lower level configurations suitable to be directly...

Improving quality assurance and providing effective healthcare are some of the most important aims of information and communication technologies (ICT). This chapter presents a...

In this article the authors provide an overview of the Ecospace reference architecture which constitutes a reusable high-level representation for building Collaborative Work...

Finally, it is analyzed how the inclusion of IdM in business organizations can provide economical benefits. These benefits range from a reduction in resource requirements to the...

This chapter describes the experiences and findings deploying a vehicular network architecture supporting different communication technologies. This approach has been developed...

Lately, the building of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) where different legacy-applications may interoperate between them has gained the focus of business research. In...

In this article the authors provide an overview of the Ecospace reference architecture which constitutes a reusable high-level representation for building Collaborative Work...

Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) is an area under intensive research that promises to improve security on the road by developing an intelligent transport system (ITS). The main...

Non-repudiation is an important issue in mobile business and mobile commerce in order to provide the necessary evidences to prove whether some party participated in a...

In this chapter we focus on the three approaches that seem to be the most successful ones in the Web usage mining area: clustering, association rules and sequential patterns. We...

Policies, which usually govern the behavior of networking services (e.g., security, QoS, mobility, etc.) are becoming an increasingly popular approach for the dynamic regulation...

Network, service, and application management today faces numerous challenges, ones that older ways of doing things cannot solve. The concept of policy-based management (PBM)...

Policies, which usually govern the behaviour of networking services (e.g., security, QoS, mobility, etc.) are becoming an increasingly popular approach for the dynamic regulation...

Network, service, and application management today faces numerous challenges, ones that older ways of doing things cannot solve. The concept of policy-based management (PBM)...

Policies, which usually govern the behavior of networking services (e.g., security, QoS, mobility, etc.) are becoming an increasingly popular approach for the dynamic regulation...

Without doubt, multicast communication as a means for one-to-many or many-to-many delivery of data has become a hot topic in multimedia environments. A lot of people are...