During the last years there have been a lot of proposals in the literature for systems that attempt to manage the process of trust establishment. However, the engineering details ...
Web Services represent an important technology for distributed applications and will replace various other technologies for distributed application development soon. A lot of prob...
Abstract--A widespread design approach in distributed applications based on the service-oriented paradigm, such as web-services, consists of clearly separating the enforcement of a...
The extensible markup language (XML) is a promising standard for describing semi-structured information and contents on the Internet. When XML comes to be a widespread data encodi...
Using certificates for distributed authorizations in computer network systems has been discussed in the literature. However real implementations of the concept are rarely seen. In...