The Maille Authorization protocol provides flexible and reliable authorization in large distributed and pervasive computing systems. Service owners distribute their access control...
When a middleware layer is designed for providing semi-transparent distribution facilities to real-time applications, a trade-off must be made between the expressiveness and contro...
Distributed systems today are very vulnerable to malicious attacks, either from insiders or outsiders. When an attacker controls a component of the system, he may steal some sensi...
Access control (AC) technology has come a long way from its roots as the means for sharing resources between processes running on a single machine, to a mechanism for regulating t...
This paper describes the architecture of a distributed workflow management system in a dynamic environment. The system features autonomous agent components that can adapt to both s...
Maryam Purvis, Martin K. Purvis, Azhar Haidar, Bas...