Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 78

Volumes 78, Part 1, January 2018

Regular papers

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  Edelberto F. Silva, Débora Christina Muchaluat-Saade, Natalia Castro Fernandes:
  ACROSS: A generic framework for attribute-based access control with distributed policies for virtual organizations. 1-17
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  Xiaoyong Xu, Maolin Tang, Yu-Chu Tian:
  QoS-guaranteed resource provisioning for cloud-based MapReduce in dynamical environments. 18-30
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  Sheng-Yao Su, Wenbin Yao, Xiaoyong Li:
  DARS: A dynamic adaptive replica strategy under high load Cloud-P2P. 31-40
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  Jian Xu, Hang Zhang, Wubai Zhou, Rouying He, Tao Li:
  Signature based trouble ticket classification. 41-58
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  Rafael de Oliveira Werneck, Waldir R. de Almeida, Bernardo Vecchia Stein, Daniel V. Pazinato, Pedro Ribeiro Mendes Júnior, Otávio Augusto Bizetto Penatti, Anderson Rocha, Ricardo da Silva Torres:
  Kuaa: A unified framework for design, deployment, execution, and recommendation of machine learning experiments. 59-76
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  Yi-Chao He, Haoran Xie, Tak-Lam Wong, Xizhao Wang:
  A novel binary artificial bee colony algorithm for the set-union knapsack problem. 77-86

Special Section on Cloud Forward: From Distributed to Complete Computing

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  Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Keith G. Jeffery:
  Cloud forward: From distributed to complete computing. 87-88
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  Chonglin Gu, Longxiang Fan, Wenbin Wu, Hejiao Huang, Xiaohua Jia:
  Greening cloud data centers in an economical way by energy trading with power grid. 89-101
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  Athanasia Evangelinou, Michele Ciavotta, Danilo Ardagna, Aliki Kopaneli, George Kousiouris, Theodora A. Varvarigou:
  Enterprise applications cloud rightsizing through a joint benchmarking and optimization approach. 102-114
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  Sebastian Lehrig, Richard Sanders, Gunnar Brataas, Mariano Cecowski, Simon Ivansek, Jure Polutnik:
  CloudStore - towards scalability, elasticity, and efficiency benchmarking and analysis in Cloud computing. 115-126
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  George Fylaktopoulos, Michael Skolarikis, I. Papadopoulos, Georgios I. Goumas, Aristidis Sotiropoulos, Ilias Maglogiannis:
  A distributed modular platform for the development of cloud based applications. 127-141
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  Pierfrancesco Bellini, Ivan Bruno, Daniele Cenni, Paolo Nesi:
  Managing cloud via Smart Cloud Engine and Knowledge Base. 142-154
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  Kyriakos Kritikos, Tom Kirkham, Bartosz Kryza, Philippe Massonet:
  Reprint of "Towards a security-enhanced PaaS platform for multi-cloud applications". 155-175
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  Rodrigo da Rosa Righi, Vinicius Facco Rodrigues, Gustavo Rostirolla, Cristiano André da Costa, Eduardo Roloff, Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux:
  A lightweight plug-and-play elasticity service for self-organizing resource provisioning on parallel applications. 176-190
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  Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani, Sam Jabbehdari, Mohammad Ali Pourmina:
  An autonomic resource provisioning approach for service-based cloud applications: A hybrid approach. 191-210
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  Emiliano Casalicchio, Valeria Cardellini, Gianluca Interino, Monica Palmirani:
  Research challenges in legal-rule and QoS-aware cloud service brokerage. 211-223
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  Netsanet Haile, Jörn Altmann:
  Evaluating investments in portability and interoperability between software service platforms. 224-241

Special Section On High Performance Scheduling for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems (HPS-HDS)

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  Florin Pop, Alexandru Iosup, Radu Prodan:
  HPS-HDS: High Performance Scheduling for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems. 242-244
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  Antonio Fernández Anta, Chryssis Georgiou, Dariusz R. Kowalski, Elli Zavou:
  Competitive analysis of fundamental scheduling algorithms on a fault-prone machine and the impact of resource augmentation. 245-256
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  Fredy Juarez, Jorge Ejarque, Rosa M. Badia:
  Dynamic energy-aware scheduling for parallel task-based application in cloud computing. 257-271
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  Rodrigo da Rosa Righi, Roberto de Quadros Gomes, Vinicius Facco Rodrigues, Cristiano André da Costa, Antônio Marcos Alberti, Laércio Lima Pilla, Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux:
  MigPF: Towards on self-organizing process rescheduling of Bulk-Synchronous Parallel applications. 272-286
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  Zhuo Tang, Xiangshen Zhang, Kenli Li, Keqin Li:
  An intermediate data placement algorithm for load balancing in Spark computing environment. 287-301
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  Michal P. Karpowicz, Piotr Arabas, Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz:
  Design and implementation of energy-aware application-specific CPU frequency governors for the heterogeneous distributed computing systems. 302-315
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  Wenbin Jiang, Min Long, Laurence T. Yang, Xiaobai Liu, Hai Jin, Alan L. Yuille, Ye Chi:
  FIPIP: A novel fine-grained parallel partition based intra-frame prediction on heterogeneous many-core systems. 316-329
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  Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Massimo Bertoncini, Ioan Salomie, Diego Arnone, Marzia Mammina, Terpsichori Helen Velivassaki, Marcel Antal:
  Optimized flexibility management enacting Data Centres participation in Smart Demand Response programs. 330-342
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  Massimo Ficco, Christian Esposito, Francesco Palmieri, Aniello Castiglione:
  A coral-reefs and Game Theory-based approach for optimizing elastic cloud resource allocation. 343-352
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  Lizhe Wang, Yan Ma, Jining Yan, Victor Chang, Albert Y. Zomaya:
  pipsCloud: High performance cloud computing for remote sensing big data management and processing. 353-368
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  Konstantinos Douzis, Stelios Sotiriadis, Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Cristiana Amza:
  Modular and generic IoT management on the cloud. 369-378
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  Izzet F. Senturk, Ponnuraman Balakrishnan, Anas Abu-Doleh, Kamer Kaya, Qutaibah M. Malluhi, Ümit V. Çatalyürek:
  A resource provisioning framework for bioinformatics applications in multi-cloud environments. 379-391
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  Rong Jiang, Rongxing Lu, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo:
  Achieving high performance and privacy-preserving query over encrypted multidimensional big metering data. 392-401
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  Hamid Arabnejad, Jorge G. Barbosa:
  Reprint of "Multi-QoS constrained and Profit-aware scheduling approach for concurrent workflows on heterogeneous systems". 402-412

Special Section On Recommender Systems for Large-Scale Social Networks

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  Magdalini Eirinaki, Jerry Gao, Iraklis Varlamis, Konstantinos Tserpes:
  Recommender Systems for Large-Scale Social Networks: A review of challenges and solutions. 413-418
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  Fatemeh Rezaeimehr, Parham Moradi, Sajad Ahmadian, Nooruldeen Nasih Qader, Mahdi Jalili:
  TCARS: Time- and Community-Aware Recommendation System. 419-429
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  Davide Feltoni Gurini, Fabio Gasparetti, Alessandro Micarelli, Giuseppe Sansonetti:
  Temporal people-to-people recommendation on social networks with sentiment-based matrix factorization. 430-439
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  Dionisis Margaris, Costas Vassilakis, Panagiotis Georgiadis:
  Query personalization using social network information and collaborative filtering techniques. 440-450
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  Junpeng Guo, Zeng Gao, Na Liu, Yi Wu:
  Recommend products with consideration of multi-category inter-purchase time and price. 451-461
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  Mingxin Gan, Rui Jiang:
  FLOWER: Fusing global and local associations towards personalized social recommendation. 462-473
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  Alejandro Corbellini, Daniela Godoy, Cristian Mateos, Silvia N. Schiaffino, Alejandro Zunino:
  DPM: A novel distributed large-scale social graph processing framework for link prediction algorithms. 474-480

Volumes 78, Part 2, January 2018

Regular papers

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  Sandro Bartolini, Pierfrancesco Foglia, Cosimo Antonio Prete:
  Exploring the relationship between architectures and management policies in the design of NUCA-based chip multicore systems. 481-501
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  Klavdiya Bochenina, Sergey Kesarev, Alexander Boukhanovsky:
  Scalable parallel simulation of dynamical processes on large stochastic Kronecker graphs. 502-515
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  George Kousiouris, Adnan Akbar, Juan Sancho, Paula Ta-Shma, Alexandros Psychas, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Theodora A. Varvarigou:
  An integrated information lifecycle management framework for exploiting social network data to identify dynamic large crowd concentration events in smart cities applications. 516-530
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  Lifang Ren, Wenjian Wang:
  An SVM-based collaborative filtering approach for Top-N web services recommendation. 531-543

Special Section On Internet of Things Security and Forensics: Challenges and Opportunities by Mauro Conti , Ali Dehghantanha , Katrin Franke , Steve Watson

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  Mauro Conti, Ali Dehghantanha, Katrin Franke, Steve Watson:
  Internet of Things security and forensics: Challenges and opportunities. 544-546
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  Samet Tonyali, Kemal Akkaya, Nico Saputro, A. Selcuk Uluagac, Mehrdad Nojoumian:
  Privacy-preserving protocols for secure and reliable data aggregation in IoT-enabled Smart Metering systems. 547-557
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  Darren Quick, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo:
  Digital forensic intelligence: Data subsets and Open Source Intelligence (DFINT+OSINT): A timely and cohesive mix. 558-567
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  Mengmeng Ge, Jin B. Hong, Simon Yusuf Enoch, Dong Seong Kim:
  Proactive defense mechanisms for the software-defined Internet of Things with non-patchable vulnerabilities. 568-582

Special Section On Internet-of-Things and Big Data for Smarter Healthcare: From Device to Architecture, Applications and Analytics by Farshad Firouzi, Amir M. Rahmani, K. Mankodiya , M. Badaroglu , G. V. Merrett, P. Wong, Bahar Farahani

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  Farshad Firouzi, Amir M. Rahmani, Kunal Mankodiya, Mustafa Badaroglu, Geoff V. Merrett, P. Wong, Bahar J. Farahani:
  Internet-of-Things and big data for smarter healthcare: From device to architecture, applications and analytics. 583-586
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  Josué Pagán, Marina Zapater, José L. Ayala:
  Power transmission and workload balancing policies in eHealth mobile cloud computing scenarios. 587-601
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  Toni Adame, Albert Bel, Anna Carreras, Joan Melià-Seguí, Miquel Oliver, Rafael Pous:
  CUIDATS: An RFID-WSN hybrid monitoring system for smart health care environments. 602-615
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  Osamu Ammae, Joseph Korpela, Takuya Maekawa:
  Unobtrusive detection of body movements during sleep using Wi-Fi received signal strength with model adaptation technique. 616-625
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  Min Woo Woo, JongWhi Lee, KeeHyun Park:
  A reliable IoT system for Personal Healthcare Devices. 626-640
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  Amir M. Rahmani, Tuan Nguyen Gia, Behailu Negash, Arman Anzanpour, Iman Azimi, Mingzhe Jiang, Pasi Liljeberg:
  Exploiting smart e-Health gateways at the edge of healthcare Internet-of-Things: A fog computing approach. 641-658
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  Bahar J. Farahani, Farshad Firouzi, Victor I. Chang, Mustafa Badaroglu, Nicholas Constant, Kunal Mankodiya:
  Towards fog-driven IoT eHealth: Promises and challenges of IoT in medicine and healthcare. 659-676

Special Section On A Foggy Research Future: Advances and Future Opportunities in Fog Computing Research

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  Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Rongxing Lu, Liqun Chen, Xun Yi:
  A foggy research future: Advances and future opportunities in fog computing research. 677-679
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  Rodrigo Roman, Javier López, Masahiro Mambo:
  Mobile edge computing, Fog et al.: A survey and analysis of security threats and challenges. 680-698
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  Yuexin Zhang, Yang Xiang, Wei Wu, Abdulhameed Alelaiwi:
  A variant of password authenticated key exchange protocol. 699-711
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  Huaqun Wang, Zhiwei Wang, Josep Domingo-Ferrer:
  Anonymous and secure aggregation scheme in fog-based public cloud computing. 712-719
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  Yinhao Jiang, Willy Susilo, Yi Mu, Fuchun Guo:
  Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption against key-delegation abuse in fog computing. 720-729
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  Cong Zuo, Jun Shao, Guiyi Wei, Mande Xie, Min Ji:
  CCA-secure ABE with outsourced decryption for fog computing. 730-738
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  Dongyoung Koo, Junbeom Hur:
  Privacy-preserving deduplication of encrypted data with dynamic ownership management in fog computing. 739-752
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  Peng Zhang, Zehong Chen, Joseph K. Liu, Kaitai Liang, Hongwei Liu:
  An efficient access control scheme with outsourcing capability and attribute update for fog computing. 753-762
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  Zuoxia Yu, Man Ho Au, Qiuliang Xu, Rupeng Yang, Jinguang Han:
  Towards leakage-resilient fine-grained access control in fog computing. 763-777
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  Zheli Liu, Tong Li, Ping Li, Chunfu Jia, Jin Li:
  Verifiable searchable encryption with aggregate keys for data sharing system. 778-788
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  Yannan Li, Yong Yu, Bo Yang, Geyong Min, Huai Wu:
  Privacy preserving cloud data auditing with efficient key update. 789-798
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  Rupeng Yang, Qiuliang Xu, Man Ho Au, Zuoxia Yu, Hao Wang, Lu Zhou:
  Position based cryptography with location privacy: A step for Fog Computing. 799-806
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  Catalin Gosman, Tudor Cornea, Ciprian Dobre, Florin Pop, Aniello Castiglione:
  Controlling and filtering users data in Intelligent Transportation System. 807-816
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  Jian Liu, Jiangtao Li, Lei Zhang, Feifei Dai, Yuanfei Zhang, Xinyu Meng, Jian Shen:
  Secure intelligent traffic light control using fog computing. 817-824
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  Ximeng Liu, Robert H. Deng, Yang Yang, Ngoc Hieu Tran, Shangping Zhong:
  Hybrid privacy-preserving clinical decision support system in fog-cloud computing. 825-837
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  Biplob R. Ray, Jemal H. Abawajy, Morshed U. Chowdhury, Abdulhameed Alelaiwi:
  Universal and secure object ownership transfer protocol for the Internet of Things. 838-849
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  Hui Huang, Xiaofeng Chen, Qianhong Wu, Xinyi Huang, Jian Shen:
  Bitcoin-based fair payments for outsourcing computations of fog devices. 850-858
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  Bo-Wei Chen, Seungmin Rho, Laurence T. Yang, Yu Gu:
  Privacy-preserved big data analysis based on asymmetric imputation kernels and multiside similarities. 859-866

Volumes 78, Part 3, January 2018

Regular papers

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  Bei Gong, Yu Zhang, Yubo Wang:
  A remote attestation mechanism for the sensing layer nodes of the Internet of Things. 867-886
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  Xiang Li, Xiaohong Jiang, Peter Garraghan, Zhaohui Wu:
  Holistic energy and failure aware workload scheduling in Cloud datacenters. 887-900
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  Waralak Chongdarakul, Peraphon Sophatsathit, Chidchanok Lursinsap:
  Theoretical and heuristic aspects of heterogeneous system scheduling with constraints on client's multiple I/O ports. 901-919
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  Xun Shao, Masahiro Jibiki, Yuuichi Teranishi, Nozomu Nishinaga:
  An efficient load-balancing mechanism for heterogeneous range-queriable cloud storage. 920-930

Special Section On Internet of Things: Security and Privacy in a Connected World by Jin Li, Qiben Yan, Victor Chang

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  Jin Li, Qiben Yan, Victor I. Chang:
  Internet of Things: Security and privacy in a connected world. 931-932
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  Zhanwei Du, Yongjian Yang, Qing Cai, Chijun Zhang, Yuan Bai:
  Modeling and inferring mobile phone users' negative emotion spreading in social networks. 933-942
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  Pandi Vijayakumar, Victor I. Chang, L. Jegatha Deborah, Balamurugan Balusamy, P. G. Shynu:
  Computationally efficient privacy preserving anonymous mutual and batch authentication schemes for vehicular ad hoc networks. 943-955
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  Jian Shen, Shaohua Chang, Jun Shen, Qi Liu, Xingming Sun:
  A lightweight multi-layer authentication protocol for wireless body area networks. 956-963
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  Christos Stergiou, Kostas E. Psannis, Byung-Gyu Kim, Brij B. Gupta:
  Secure integration of IoT and Cloud Computing. 964-975
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  Hong Liu, Huansheng Ning, Yinliang Yue, Yueliang Wan, Laurence T. Yang:
  Selective disclosure and yoking-proof based privacy-preserving authentication scheme for cloud assisted wearable devices. 976-986
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  Wei Wang, Yuanyuan Li, Xing Wang, Jiqiang Liu, Xiangliang Zhang:
  Detecting Android malicious apps and categorizing benign apps with ensemble of classifiers. 987-994
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  Ying Wu, Muhua Liu, Rui Xue, Rui Zhang:
  Attribute-based multi-function verifiable computation. 995-1004
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  Ruhul Amin, Neeraj Kumar, G. P. Biswas, Rahat Iqbal, Victor I. Chang:
  A light weight authentication protocol for IoT-enabled devices in distributed Cloud Computing environment. 1005-1019
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  Yi Liu, Yinghui Zhang, Jie Ling, Zhusong Liu:
  Secure and fine-grained access control on e-healthcare records in mobile cloud computing. 1020-1026
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  Xianglin Wei, Tongxiang Wang, Chaogang Tang, Jianhua Fan:
  Collaborative mobile jammer tracking in Multi-Hop Wireless Network. 1027-1039
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  Ming Tao, Jinglong Zuo, Zhusong Liu, Aniello Castiglione, Francesco Palmieri:
  Multi-layer cloud architectural model and ontology-based security service framework for IoT-based smart homes. 1040-1051

Special Section on Cloud Storage Services for File Synchronization and Sharing in Science and Education by Jakub Tomasz Moscicki, Luca Mascetti

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  Jakub T. Moscicki, Luca Mascetti:
  Cloud storage services for file synchronization and sharing in science, education and research. 1052-1054
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  Raúl Gracia Tinedo, Cristian Cotes, Edgar Zamora-Gómez, Genís Ortiz, Adrián Moreno-Martínez, Marc Sánchez Artigas, Pedro García López, Raquel Sánchez, Alberto Gómez, Anastasio Illana:
  Giving wings to your data: A first experience of Personal Cloud interoperability. 1055-1070
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  Danilo Piparo, Enric Tejedor, Pere Mato, Luca Mascetti, Jakub T. Moscicki, Massimo Lamanna:
  SWAN: A service for interactive analysis in the cloud. 1071-1078
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  Hassen Riahi, Alberto Aimar, Alejandro Álvarez-Ayllón, Justas Balcas, Diego Ciangottini, José M. Hernández, Oliver Keeble, Nicolò Magini, Andrea Manzi, Luca Mascetti, Marco Mascheroni, Andres Jorge Tanasijczuk, Eric Wayne Vaandering:
  Integration of end-user Cloud storage for CMS analysis. 1079-1082
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  Piotr Mrówczynski, Jakub T. Moscicki, Massimo Lamanna, Frederik Orellana:
  Benchmarking and monitoring framework for interconnected file synchronization and sharing services. 1083-1090
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  Zhipeng Tan, Li Du, Dan Feng, Wei Zhou:
  EML: An I/O scheduling algorithm in large-scale-application environments. 1091-1100