Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) has been widely used for expressing access control policies. Although RBAC provides flexible mechanisms to control the access to information, it do...
Mikhail I. Gofman, Ruiqi Luo, Jian He, Yingbin Zha...
When agents are acting together, they may need a simple mechanism to decide on joint actions. One possibility is to have the agents express their preferences in the form of a ballo...
We discuss the definability of finite graphs in first-order logic with two relation symbols for adjacency and equality of vertices. The logical depth D(G) of a graph G is equal to ...
We believe that to fully support adaptive distributed applications, middleware must itself be adaptable, adaptive and policy-free. In this paper we present a new language-independ...
Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Stuart J. Norcros...
In this paper, we present a formal model, named PobSAM (Policy-based Self-Adaptive Model), for modeling self-adaptive systems. In this model, policies are used as a mechanism to d...
Narges Khakpour, Saeed Jalili, Carolyn L. Talcott,...