The explosion of the number of web-based information sources has drastically increased the need for intelligent mediation tools to be implemented between the users and these infor...
A key challenge in supporting data-driven scientific applications is the storage and management of input and output data in a distributed environment. In this paper, we describe a...
Stephen Langella, Shannon Hastings, Scott Oster, T...
An outstanding security problem in mobile agent systems is resource access control, or authorization in its broader sense. In this paper we present an authorization framework for m...
This work proposes a XML-based framework for distributing and enforcing RSVP access control policies, for RSVP-aware application servers. Policies are represented by extending XAC...
A critical point for developing successful information systems for distributed organisations is the need for integrating heterogeneous technologies and tools. This paper reports a...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Andrea De Lucia,...