Abstract. Access control is a system-wide concern that has both a generic nature and an application dependent characteristic. It is generic as many functions must be protected with...
Reflective Database Access Control (RDBAC) is a model in which a database privilege is expressed as a database query itself, rather than as a static privilege contained in an acce...
Sophisticated agents operating in open environments must make decisions that efficiently trade off the use of their limited resources between dynamic deliberative actions and dom...
Abstract—Controlling self-organizing systems with given control parameters is often unintuitive and inefficient for the user. Typically, there is some emergent behavior that the...
Simulation models provide a powerful tool for the analysis of manufacturing systems, but their utility beyond the design stage of the system life cycle is hampered by the high cos...