Mobile agent frameworks have attracted a lot of attention in recent years, seen as counterparts of static distributed object frameworks but allowing also for object or agent mobil...
Christos Bohoris, George Pavlou, Haitham S. Cruick...
— Robots that can interact naturally with humans require the integration and coordination of many different components with heavy computational demands. We argue that an architec...
This paper discusses a novel implementation of a workflow engine that supports service-based applications. The applications are defined according to the GAT model, which is an eve...
Julian Jang, Alan Fekete, Paul Greenfield, Surya N...
This paper offers several contributions for separation of duty (SoD) administration in role-based access control (RBAC) systems. We first introduce a new formal framework, based o...
Alessandro Colantonio, Roberto Di Pietro, Alberto ...
Pervasive systems are complex distributed systems containing heterogeneous and mobile devices, services and applications. Policy-based management is an effective approach for mana...