In distributed component environment, a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) server manages all authorization policies of components in the same domains whereas the components are dist...
In order to manage and enforce multiple heterogeneous authorization policies in distributed authorization environment, we defined the root policy specification language and its cor...
Policies are used to describe rules that are employed to modify (often distributed) system behaviour at runtime. Typically policies are created by many different people and there a...
Carlo Montangero, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Laura S...
One of the most difficult problems to be solved by metacomputing systems is to ensure strong authentication and authorization. The problem is complicated since the hosts involved ...
Scientific workflows are a powerful programming technique for specifying complex computations using a number of otherwise independent components. When used in a Grid environment, ...