We outline and clarify the essential concepts of the componentware paradigm. After motivating the role of formal foundations and introducing a number of useful description techniq...
Klaus Bergner, Andreas Rausch, Marc Sihling, Alexa...
Coordinating security policies in information enclaves is challenging due to their heterogeneity and autonomy. Administrators must reconcile the semantic diversity of data and sec...
John Hale, Pablo Galiasso, Mauricio Papa, Sujeet S...
Abstract. We present here a formal foundation for an iterative and incremental approach to constructing and evaluating preference queries. Our main focus is on query modification: ...
We develop a hierarchical approach to planning for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) in which a policy is represented as a hierarchical finite-state control...
ogramming are evaluated along three different guidelines: the programming abstractions the calculus suggests; the underlying programming model; the security mechanisms provided. Th...
Gian Luigi Ferrari, Rosario Pugliese, Emilio Tuost...