Enhancing the service-oriented architecture paradigm with semantic components is a new field of research and goal of many ongoing projects. The results lead to more powerful web a...
Enforcing rich policies in open environments will increasingly require the ability to dynamically identify external sources of information necessary to enforce different policies (...
This paper presents “ConServ1 ”, a web service for context management. ConServ allows smart spaces to access user’s context data according to user-defined policies. This we...
Large scale distributed applications combine network access with multiple storage and computational elements. The distributed responsibility for resource control creates new secur...
Sotiris Ioannidis, Steven M. Bellovin, John Ioanni...
We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. We present Cassandra, a language and system for expressing policy, and the results of a sub...