Abstract. Web-based applications are the most common form of distributed systems that have gained a lot of attention in the past ten years. Today many of us are relying on scores o...
Traditionally, top-down and bottom-up design approaches have competed with each other in Algorithmics and Software Engineering. In the top-down approach, design process starts wit...
Business Processes for Web Services are the new paradigm for the lightweight integration of business from different enterprises. Whereas the security and access control policies ...
Ideally, software toolkits for collaborative applications should provide generic, reusable components, applicable in a wide range of circumstances, which software developers can as...
Secure distributed applications often include code to authenticate users, verify access rights, and establish secure communication channels between software components (e.g., clie...