Usage control is concerned with how data is used after access to it has been granted. As such, it is particularly relevant to end users who own the data. System implementations of...
Abstract. A component-based system consists of components linked by connectors. Data can reside in components and/or in external data stores. Operations on data, such as access, up...
The design and implementation of distributed, self-organising and self-adaptive systems are challenging. In this article we report on our experience gained during the development o...
Within the field of robotics, much recent attention has been given to control techniques that have been termed reactive or behavior-based. The design of such control systems for e...
While current manufacturing systems are built to avoid uncertainty, the increase of setup reconfiguration frequency and ever higher numbers of variants produced on the same syste...